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Should you ask that question? Thoughts from NSF
I’m at the Advisory Committee for the Biology Directorate of the National Science Foundation. We have just had a powerful talk by Jim Olds Assistant Director of Biological Sciences on biology generally. (Assistant Director is Director as far as I … Continue reading
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Tagged dialogue, information, power, questions, status
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Let need, not ego, matter for allocating research space
Remember your first bench? Was it a place to dump field gear? Was it 6 feet of black magic with shelves above for carefully labeled and dated orange-capped bottles? Did you line up your vortexer with your pipetteman rack? Did … Continue reading
Posted in Department politics, Life in a biology department, Organization of a scientist
Tagged benches, laboratory, politics, sharing, space, status
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Don’t say “that’s a good question” after your seminar!
A good presentation will have questions afterwards. All too often, the speaker answers by saying “That is a great question,” or something like that. It may seem like you are congratulating the brave questioner for their brilliance, so you may … Continue reading
