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Reader J asked (In July! J, I am sorry for being so late with this response!): If you wouldn’t mind a blog request: now that I have survived the postdoc phase, got a job, have survived some teaching, written the boatload of grants … I got an NSF grant this winter (I’m still shocked, actually!) and
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Alas, I speak not of the fun kind, the province of randy college youth… Nay… My tale goes far back, all the way to the last millenium… And it is a dark one. Every year, come October, the pearly gates windows for NSF unsolicited proposals swing open. As if in a trance, thousands of pilgrim scientists gather to worship at
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Another day, another NSF grant rejection. Scores were E, V, V, V (E=excellent, V=very good). I haven’t seen the report yet, they probably won’t show up till next week. The scores are only a little better than last year, although I thought the proposal itself was MUCH better than last year. (Update: Did get the reviews, really very positive. Still
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h/t to Melanie Nelson of Annorlunda Books, who suggested that I make a comic based on this line from the “Academaze” manuscript: “[I]t is fundamentally impossible to have the right amount of preliminary data.”
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I drew the one below while I was waiting for Eldest’s turn at a music competition (he did fabulously, in case you are wondering). It will be an illustration in the upcoming book (“Academaze“).
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(I am unusually grouchy today, so calibrate accordingly.) Many speakers are really not very good. Most, in fact. No matter how cool your slides are, nothing helps if you are an anemic speaker, boring as hell and unable to make a point. This one guy was speaking very, very slowly, ending every sentence with lowered intonation,
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I spent the first half of this week on travel (fun, exhausting, “the uzhe,” as Eldest would say), followed by a full day of taking kids to various physical exams and dental cleanings, and another day full of meeting my graduate students. Now I have 2.5 weeks before the next trip. I want to take this opportunity
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Yesterday I found out that one of my NSF proposals got declined. I was disappointed, as I think this was probably the best proposal I have ever written. I read the comments and felt even more down. The comments indicated that it was poorly placed panel-wise. It received 3 “goods”, and the comments were pro forma. First,
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I have been extremely busy, hence the scarcity of posts. I have been wanting to post on a number of interesting topics, but the time just isn’t there… And then I forget or the impetus to write diminishes for whatever reason (mostly due to sleepiness), and then there are more pressing things to tend to
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