
Congratulations to ASIP Member Angela Wandinger-Ness who will receive the 2020 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award during the 186th AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Feb. 15, 2020.
Congratulations to ASIP Member Angela Wandinger-Ness who will receive the 2020 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award during the 186th AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Feb. 15, 2020.
Within the next day or so, eligible Regular members and Next-Generation Scientist members will receive via email a link to vote in the ASIP Election.
If you do not receive an email with a link to vote in the election by January 30 and you are a Regular member or Next-Generation Scientist member, please email Lisa McFadden at membership@asip.org or call (240) 283-9712.
You will be voting on the following ASIP leadership positions. Listed under each position are the names of the candidates for the position.
Please note: You may write in the name of a candidate for any of the positions.
Even as a piece of satire, the recent description in Times Higher Education of an academic system where being an upwardly toxic asshat is the only way to succeed was pretty depressing (“Ten rules for succeeding in academia through upward toxicity”, Opinion, 21 November).
But I don’t believe that academic life has to be that way. Together, we can flip the narrative, highlighting collegiality and inclusivity, and ultimately building something bigger and better. This suggestion may open me up to criticism that I am hopelessly naive (it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been told that). But what the hell. It is nearly Christmas, so here are my 10 rules for promoting peace and goodwill in academia.
After all, even if academia’s Scrooges are unlikely to be as rapidly converted to righteousness as Dickens’ miser, we owe it to Bob Cratchit to at least try the Jacob Marley routine.
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It won’t escape the more observant of you that these suggestions are literally the opposite of the approach suggested for upward toxicity. Of course, there is no evidence that a kinder approach will make you similarly upwardly mobile. But just imagine if it did.
My Christmas wish is for enough like-minded souls out there to work together to change things for the better. Failing that, I would like a big, red, India-rubber ball.
John Tregoning is reader in respiratory infections at Imperial College London.
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Peer review is an important part of the scientific writing process. Before a manuscript is published, authors and reviewers are working as a team to craft the best possible manuscript to share with the scientific community. Most of the time, a manuscript needs to be revised at least once before it is ready for publication. Once an author has addressed reviewer comments and is ready to resubmit the manuscript for further review, a letter for the revised manuscript is sent to the editors with the author’s response to all reviewer comments. This is often referred to as the rebuttal letter.
The attached article, by Kakoli Majumder, provides detailed information on crafting an effective rebuttal letter.
Dr. Dani Zander, MacKenzie Chair and Professor of Pathology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and current President of the American Society for Investigative Pathology, and her husband, Dr. Erik Zander, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, provided a substantial gift to the ASIP in late 2019 to establish the Dani and Erik Zander Junior Faculty Travel Award.
The Dani and Erik Zander Junior Faculty Travel Award will provide support for one or two young faculty members each year to attend ASIP Scientific Meetings. The first Dani and Erik Zander Junior Faculty Awardee will be recognized at the ASIP Annual Meeting in April during Experimental Biology 2020 in San Diego, CA.
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