Academics don’t typically receive much advice in time management during their training. Then they get a tenure-track position and are expected to figure it out. Most do indeed figure it out, but there can be pain involved. Here are some simple bits of advice, take what you find useful, ignore the rest.

The best system…

For those who might find it useful, I am sharing some grant-writing advice. It is specifically for writing NIH R01 grants, but many of the principles are more broadly applicable.

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Private universities have many fewer undergraduate students compared to public universities. From Wikipedia, mostly 2021 numbers.

People generally understand the difference in governance between public and private schools, but they…

I might be alone in this, and I’m willing to die on this hill, but here it is:

Vertical histograms are better than all of these: violin plots, box plots, kernel density plots, beeswarm plots. (if you don’t know those terms, simply do a web search for them for examples)

Just show me the naked distribution….

If you’re looking for a lab/prof to sponsor your grad work or post doc, it can be difficult to find a match. Responding to advertisements is one way. Cold emails are another way.

Like a lab, but no ad? Apply anyways. Almost everyone I know is almost always looking to hire good…