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Or how a trip to Walt Disney World tricked me into becoming a scientist.

If reports I’ve heard are true, in the 1970s somewhere between 104% and 109% of grant proposals were funded.

The worst part of grad school, writes our columnist, is that you can’t predict when it’s going to be over.

[Discussed on Erin Go Brain blog, 12/3/14]

The worst part of networking, our columnist says, is that it feels like spending time marketing yourself in lieu of doing science.

For some nutty reason, scientists sometimes become lawyers.

In which our columnist attempts to replicate his earlier experiment in procreation.

NIH-funded training programs are helping NIH-trained scientists learn how to not do NIH-funded research.