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"Listen to everyone who has something to say, file the opinions, and make your own decisions anyway." --Avi Spier

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For some applicants, just competing for the Pathways award was a valuable experience.

"By going to different labs," says Edvard Moser, "You learn different ways of thinking and you can create bridges between sub-disciplines and find something unexpected."

"Try and identify the people that can really teach you and help you very quickly," says Diego Centonze.

If you don't have a pathway award or a similar fellowship, you'll probably be competing for the positions left over once all the award winners have been placed.

The interview process, she points out, goes both ways: They are interviewing you and you are interviewing them.

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Once a program makes the transition to electronic submission, paper proposals will no longer be accepted.

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This is an unusual position; I will have little bureaucracy and limited teaching.

The money is in a state not unlike a quantum mechanical wave packet just before a measurement, existing in principle but somehow not quite real.

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NIH plans to make grants that give "principal investigator status to not one investigator, as is now the norm, but to all key members of the research team." Whether postdocs will attain that coveted designation is not yet clear, but "it would at least be allowable as far as the agency is concerned."

Good science is always rewarded. --Gary Johnson

"To found a company and then stay on the outside, the company can take all sorts of different directions. If you really want to have influence, the only way to do that is to join it." - Corey Goodman

Your application should state clear scientific objectives and have a clear and specific research plan. Pay close attention to the writing; make sure it is clear, concise, and correct.

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