My apologies for the unusually long hiatus in posts. Proposal deadlines + department chair obligations + multiple papers in process made the end of October very challenging. Later next week I expect to pick up again. Suggested topics (in the comments?) are always appreciated. I realize I've never written an advice-on-grant-proposal-writing post. On the science side, I'm still mulling over the most accessible way to describe quantum Hall physics, and there are plenty of other "primer" topics that I should really write at some point.
If I hadn't been so busy, I would've written a post during the baseball World Series about how the hair of Fox Sports broadcaster Joe Buck is a study in anisotropic light scattering. Viewed straight on, it's a perfectly normal color, but when lit and viewed from an angle, it's a weirdly iridescent yellow - I'm thinking that this really might have interesting physics behind it, in the form of some accidental structural color.
I'd like a post on grant writing please, as I am helping revise an R01 due next month.
ReplyDeleteGrant writing advice would be great, and at some point it would also be interesting to hear your thoughts on the latest magic-angle bilayer graphene developments (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1695-0)
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how to best Chair a department, faculty recruiting and retention, boosting dept prestige/visibility/ranking, creating a happy environment for students, etc.
ReplyDeletePPP, Anon, I’ll see what I can do, though I’m never as successful as I’d like. Grumpy, I’m not sure my thoughts on being chair are particularly insightful - still learning. One thing I do know is that it’s been teaching me patience. Rankings, for example: there is basically no way to move ranking numbers quickly without some truly exceptional circumstance (eg, members winning the Nobel). Maybe when my term is over...
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