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Coomunication is not a soft skill, it goes beyond.

February 18, 20220Comments

Why “Soft Skills” like Communication are actually Hard Skills (and critical for your career)

Remember the scientist who was perpetually doing “really great work” on that thing? He had the so obviously great research he was doing. It was going to change the world… only,

February 10, 20220Comments

How To Write Your NIH Significance Section for Better Results

How To Write your NIH Significance Section for Better ResultsDo you have too many facts and too little desire created by your Significance Section? SCREECH…. DESIRE? WHAT? In this video, Morgan discusses

May 17, 20212Comments

How To Write a Specific Aim – 3 Parts to a simple and clear aim that your reviewers will “get”

The Specific Aims (for NIH) or Objectives (NSF) are the key to what you are proposing. You want them to be not only clearly understandable to your reviewer (right?), but

by Morgan Giddings

Building a Research Career

Grant Writing

Women In Science

February 7, 20210Comments

The Hidden Bias of Grant Spam

It is with a sense of relief (but with strings attached) that I write to you this chilly February morning. I’m relieved that our government—you know, the one that funds

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Why “Soft Skills” like Communication are actually Hard Skills (and critical for your career)

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The Hidden Bias of Grant Spam

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