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Why a PhD fast-track can be a bad idea
Earning a doctorate earlier may sound attractive, but there’s value in completing a master’s degree first.
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The role of intuition and luck when starting a company
A startup company should only be focused on one idea at a time and learning to trust your gut when making decisions will help your team stay on track.
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A call for widespread adoption of universal MTAs
The current process for material transfer agreements involves way too much paperwork and puts unnecessary stress on both researchers and technology transfer offices.
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The benefits of hiring an executive coach
Rarely leveraged at academic institutions, executive coaches can provide invaluable insights and advice to principal investigators.
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Let’s start improving research lab websites
Among other things, these websites should be sharing the lab’s protocols and disclosing the career progression of its researchers.
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The ‘Founder’s Dilemma’: to be rich, or king?
Most founders in STEM are not interested in being rich – they want to achieve a paradigm change in their field.
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Parental leave for scientific group leaders – changes needed
Two of the most useful and underrated things in the world of academic science are support and trust. Both can make such a huge difference at key moments of one’s career, and parental leave should be no exception.
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Scientific publishing needs to change
While our existing scientific publication system has limited value in this world, the scholarly peer review process is more important than ever.
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More ideas to close the gender gap in science
These are just a few of the ways that men and women can help to balance the gender scales in academic science.
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Young CEOs need a mentor to lend a ‘steady hand’
A more seasoned person can help shepherd the startup over those early bumps in the road, and can serve as a ‘voice of reason’ for the company.
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Quarterly summary: Start-ups vs. starting up a lab… is it the same?
As Dave starts his second parental leave, we look back at what the Black Hole has been writing about for the last six months.
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No one is born a CEO, they learn on the job
What young CEOs lack in experience, they appear to make up for in risk tolerance and ability to facilitate development and growth.
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I started my lab 3 years ago and I’m moving already
The reality for many externally-funded research group leaders is that we will leave the institution that gave us our start.
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Ageism in biotech
Is age a proxy for success when launching a biopharma startup?
