Archive for January 2017

When is it “ok” to cry? I’ll give my perspective on this particularly as it concerns graduate students and postdocs. I’ll use the example of a graduate student and advisor, but I’m more generally talking about a student or postdoc crying in front of a teacher, mentor or supervisor. Let’s start with this: No one…

Postdoc Rebecca Helm and I are headed to New Orleans tomorrow for the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology. It’s my favorite meeting of the year because the atmosphere is very collegial, and the research spans a huge range of topics and model organisms. I hope to come back with lots of…