Time to write a final report on a completed grant!
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View ArticleWhaddya mean “that’s not normal?!”
North Yorkshire, circa 1987. A classroom full of nine- and ten-year-olds. An assignment to write a story that involved food. A girl (not the blogger!) standing up at her desk, pulling her knee socks...
View ArticleRadical reform of peer review and research support, or rearranging the...
OR More on the proposed reforms at the CIHR, which I first blogged about last month after taking my first look at the discussion document they published. I’ve since read the document in much greater...
View ArticleI have a team
Way back in May 2009, I described how being around a team of fellow grant wranglers from another department made me realise how much I miss being part of a team of peers. In my current job I’m really a...
View ArticleVictoria Secrets
One of the things that makes you feel a long way from home when you move to a foreign country is that you have no idea when the long weekends fall. We get a pretty good deal here in British … Continue...
View ArticleAsk The Blogosphere – how can we help trainees with their studentship &...
I mentioned in a recent post that part of my job is going to involve specialising in something that I’d previously listed as a long-term career goal. As you’ve probably already guessed from this post’s...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name?: towards the development of a novel analysis of grant titles
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about how I’m going to be responsible for helping all trainees in my new department identify, apply for, and manage their awards (comment on my post, you bastards...
View ArticleUseful resources for trainees
As part of my new role as the go-to person for everything related to my department’s trainees, I’ve put together a list of resources that I thought some readers might also find useful or interesting....
View ArticleThe timers they are a-changin’
When my parents were visiting earlier this year, my Mum asked me why I don’t wear a watch any more. “I just use my iPhone”, I explained. “But don’t you miss having a watch?” “No. Strapping a device to...
View Article“I’ll be the judge of that”
I’ve noticed a recent increase in the number of emails I receive that say things like “this is a polite reminder” or “this is a gentle reminder”. While there’s never anything in the message to...
View ArticleehCloud: why Canada (and every other country) needs its own cloud computing...
I recently helped one of our scientists put together an application for an industry-partnered bioinformatics grant. I understand the company in question to be more or less universally recognised as the...
View ArticleUntangling the wrangling angle
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ll wait for the 5.5 year retrospective post to see just how much grant writing you *didn’t* get involved in… Thus spake the prophet Wintle in...
View ArticleQuora: productive procrastination
I’ve recently started to spend some time on the question and answer site Quora, and I’m finding it be quite an effective science communication medium as well as excellent writing practice. I can’t...
View ArticleThings I learned at a funding agency’s “community engagement” session this week
“Your stupid new metrics are irrelevant to my field of research” “It’s not fair that chemists get bigger awards, even though I acknowledge that their research is much more expensive than that of the...
View ArticleAccelerate the progress of your research by using this one weird old tip!
(Photo and title by Sonja Babovic; used with her permission) Other geeky things that made me laugh recently: Mad science looks pretty similar to normal science As does Lego science
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