Helping You Get Recognized For The Great Science That You Do
Today I awoke, and checked my email early on. Bad idea. I ended up wasting a bunch of energy on one person’s negativity that had been aimed towards me. He wrote: “You have lost credibility as a scientist and have become just another huckster.” Wow!
I’m a huckster now!? Really?
In tomorrow’s Naturally Selected blog I’ll go into a bit more about what prompted him to do that. In short, I had sent out an email to a list of folks with ...(read more)
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If you are familiar with my mission of helping you maximize your ability to promote your work and increase your funding, you’ll know that I spend the majority of my efforts focusing on the positive, all the ways you can improve and be better.
But I need a break.
In this post, I would like to explore failure and your psyche. Still reading?
Great! (I’ve often thought a smaller audience was easier to reach.)
In the world of psychology, there is a concept called ...(read more)
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A lot of what you do in science is judged through the lens of who you are. Actually, that’s true of nearly any human endeavor, not just science. But since this blog is ostensibly about science careers, I’ll focus on those.
Honestly, it amazes me that I managed to build up some kind of reputation in my community of peers. It is not like I spent nearly as much effort at this as I probably should have. ...(read more)
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Mostly I get very positive emails thanking me for the free and paid advice I give on dealing with the challenges of a modern science career in these days of shrinking budgets and overworked people.
But from time to time I get an email that is just downright negative.
A few days ago, it was an email that was complaining that I’d taken one of my free grantwriting videos down (on how to write a killer specific aims). The person was downright ...(read more)
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