Grantsmanship Revisited

An important addition to my earlier post on writing grant applications: there is a series of articles on science funding in Science Careers. The author is someone going — quite appropriately 🙂 —  by the name of  Grant Doctor.

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Academic Networking: on the Network and beyond

Phil Agre‘s  Networking on the Network contains plenty of great advice on academic networking — building a net of colleagues and collaborators.  See also interesting related materials here, here, here and here. As for collaboration per se,  see the links in my post on writing. See also this post at SBS on the conference networking.

Update: An interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. See also this post on Academia 101.

Is there an academic counterpart for social networks like the Facebook? Yes. I have found  Academia.edu, and there is plenty of sites of this kind (the Nature Network is just another example, and the Researchgate is yet another)

Update 2: see my comment exchange (1 2 3 4 5 6) with Bee (her responses are right under my comments except for #6) at the Backreaction blog regarding the academic networking.

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How to Succeed in Science

I have recently come across two papers on the subject (addressed primarily to the biomedical scientists but mostly of general interest too) by Jonathan Yewdell in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology: here and here.

As usual (cf. e.g. this discussion), this advice should be taken cum grano salis.

More related advice can be found in the other posts on this blog.  I especially recommend the talk You and Your Research by Richard Hamming, and the advice from Terence Tao,  James D. Watson,  and Steven Weinberg. See also advice from E. W. Dijkstra and J.H. Conway

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Ten simple rules: career advice from P.E. Bourne et al.

Ten Simple Rules for

• Graduate Students
• Selecting a Postdoctoral Position (correction is here)
  
• Getting Grants
• Getting Published
• Good Poster Presentation
• Making Good Oral Presentations
• Successful Collaboration
• Doing Your Best Research According to Hamming (click here for the original advice from Richard Hamming)
• Organizing a Scientific Meeting
• Reviewers
• Aspiring Scientists in a Low-Income Country
• Combining Teaching and Research (Update: April 2009)

The above articles are also available as a single collection (which however does not seem to include the correction mentioned above).

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What They Don’t Teach You in Graduate School

This is a series of four articles at Inside Higher Ed by David E. Drew and Paul Gray:

Part I Part II Part III Part IV

These authors have also recently published a book on the subject but I haven’t got it yet.

However, I’ve just found a presentation which appears to be a nice summary of the book (important note: the link in this paragraph works even though Snapshots says it doesn’t!).

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How to Write Grant Proposals

Here are several helpful links I found:

• John Wilkins: Writing the First Proposal
• Simon Peyton Jones and Alan Bundy: Writing a good grant proposal
• Ian H. Witten, updated by Janice I. Glasgow: How to get (and keep) an NSERC research grant (some parts are specific for Canada but the article contains plenty of good general advice)
• How Your Grant Proposal Compares — an article in The Chronicle of Higher  Education (new!)

Update: I just found a nice post on the subject by Daniel Lemire.

Update 2: a post by the Professor-Like Substance on the broader impact part of grant applications, and the post (actually, a series of posts) by PhysioProf about the NIH R01 grants.

Update 3: see this post at the Survival Blog for Scientists, this post at the Blue Lab Coats and this post at the Expbook.

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