Monday, July 14, 2014

Retirement of a Scientist: When Should I Announce It?

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You've decided to retire. Depending on your organization's rules, you will have to file paperwork by a certain deadline and inf...
Monday, July 7, 2014

Retirement of a Scientist: When Should I Retire?

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We are talking about retirement in this series of posts.  Once your contemporaries begin retiring, you will begin wondering if it's ti...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

Retirement of a Scientist: Do I Want To Stop Working?

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Visitors who have stumbled upon this website through a Google search for retirement information may be flummoxed at the question posed in ...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Retirement of a Scientist: Can I Afford To Quit Working?

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In this series of posts, I'm talking about retirement. In the next few posts, I'll consider some questions that a scientist contempl...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

I'm Retired, Not Dead

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What do you think when you hear that a scientist has retired? Do you assume that they're no longer contributing to science or to s...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Presentation Myths: Hand-wringing and Other Nervous Hand Gestures

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Samantha was nervous as she looked out at the audience. She thanked the organizer of the symposium and began her talk. Nothing in her delive...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Help, My Department Requires Graduate Students to Publish a Peer-Reviewed Paper!

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A colleague recently mentioned that her department is considering whether to require graduate students to have at least one paper from the...