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Do you have a lab philosophy?
Recently our lab group spent a bit of time deciding on exactly how we want to interact with one another. What is this whole lab group business all about? What are the rules? What are the guidelines? Do we have … Continue reading
Why is your lab group so separate from your department?
Few things in research are more exciting than watching ideas build as one person augments the thinking of another. Each can arrive at a place unanticipated and impossible from lone thinking. I feel almost euphoric when this happens. It may … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, creativity, innovation, isolation, new ideas
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What is fair communication from a meeting? GRC?
I’m at a Gordon Research Conference, a new, wonderful one on Animal Microbe Symbioses. This first one was conceived by Nicole Dubilier and Ned Ruby. They wrote the proposal, got the funding, chose the speakers, then held their collective breaths, … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, exclusivity, Gordon Research Conference, GRC, scientific secrecy
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What I learned at the National Science Foundation
Here are some things I learned last week at NSF while serving on the Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences. I expect every time I go I’ll learn something new, but in some ways what a beginner learns first can be … Continue reading
Posted in Grant proposals, Grants, NSF, Outreach, Politics
Tagged collaboration, NSF, Research, Research Works Act, science
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How to increase research creativity: work differently!
Isn’t it too bad there isn’t a simple formula for having the best ideas? Isn’t it too bad you can’t easily find the best thing to study, something easy, fun, high impact, and easily published in PNAS? It may seem … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, creativity, new ideas, science, teamwork
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Apply now to attend exciting meeting on social behavior
Have you heard of NAKFI? It is the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative. The meeting 13 to 15 November 2014 is taking applications now and it is about social behavior, most broadly interpreted. Its official title is Collective Behavior: from … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Scientific meetings
Tagged collaboration, collective behavior, cooperation, grants, meetings, NAS, national academy of sciences, social behavior
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Tips for job applicants: don’t name possible collaborators here
It is not a good idea to name people you might collaborate with here. You do not know our situation. This open position might be part of a retention package for someone specific. Our web page is certainly out of … Continue reading
Tips for job applicants: describe your contribution on multi-author papers
As I read through the second pass on our over 200 job applicants, I wonder who did what on the multi-author papers. Most people just leave me wondering, but every now and then someone will specify, in italics, under the … Continue reading
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