The Effort Report

MicroEpisode 15 - Being a Professional

Elizabeth and Roger discuss what it means to be a professional in academia and what value it has in collaborations.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter/X Elizabeth on Twitter/X Effort Report on Twitter/X Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art...

MicroEpisode 14 - Salary Support and Diversifying Your Portfolio

Elizabeth and Roger discuss the different ways that salary support and effort are broken down in academia, as well as strategies for diversifying the sources of your salary.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter/X Elizabeth on Twitter/X Effort Report on...

MicroEpisode 13 - Writing a Promotion Letter

Elizabeth and Roger discuss what a promotion letter is and how to write one that promotion committees can use to evaluate faculty.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter/X Elizabeth on Twitter/X Effort Report on Twitter/X Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book,...

MicroEpisode 12 - Effort Report Pro-Am

Elizabeth and Roger are in a Pro-Am providing both professional and amateur tips about mentoring others.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter/X Elizabeth on Twitter/X Effort Report on Twitter/X Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art of Data Science Subscribe...

MicroEpisode 11 - Faculty Searches and Search Committees

Elizabeth and Roger describe what a search committee is, what it does, who creates it, who serves on it, and whether you want to be on one.   Show Notes:  Roger on Twitter/X Elizabeth on Twitter/X Effort Report on Twitter/X...

MicroEpisode 10 - Academic and Professional Service

MicroEpisode 9 - Accounting Pearls

Elizabeth and Roger turn to Roger’s favorite topic: Accounting. But Elizabeth manages to keep Roger on track as they discuss what is a faculty member’s responsibility when it comes to keeping track of the numbers ($$).   Show Notes: Roger...

MicroEpisode 8 - Holiday Parties

Elizabeth and Roger discuss the critical question of whether to attend department/division holiday parties. The pros, the cons, and everything in between!   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter/X Elizabeth on Twitter/X Effort Report on Twitter/X Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book,...

MicroEpisode 7 - Choosing a Mentor

There are mentors with different purposes: Research mentor, career mentor, etc.  Furthermore, advisors are different than mentors. Elizabeth and Roger sort out the variety of people you might have helping with your career and how to choose them.   Show...

MicroEpisode 6 - Managing Up

Elizabeth and Roger discuss the concept of “managing up” and how it applies in the world of academia. Most people in academia report to someone in some sort of fashion, although in academia, the nature of the reporting relationship is...

MicroEpisode 5 - How to Be a Good Citizen

Elizabeth and Roger talk about how to be a good citizen in your department, school, and university while still advancing your career goals.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s...

MicroEpisode 4 - Your CV: More than Meets the Eye

Elizabeth and Roger discuss your curriculum vitae (CV), including what goes in it, how it differs from a resume, what it’s used for, and how to maintain it.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on...

MicroEpisode 3 - Asking for Resources

Elizabeth and Roger talk about how to ask for resources for a new initiative.   Show Notes Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art of Data Science Subscribe to the...

MicroEpisode 2 - Corresponding Author

Elizabeth and Roger talk about whether it matters if you are the corresponding author or not.   Show Notes Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art of Data Science Subscribe...

MicroEpisode 1 - Promotion Letters

Elizabeth and Roger talk about what are promotion letters and why they matter.   Show Notes Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art of Data Science Subscribe to the podcast...

174 - No Pet Peeves

Elizabeth and Roger discuss awards and managing grants both pre- and post-award. Also, re-vamping research funding, robots writing grants, and more leadership tips.   Show Notes Roger’s interview NIH Revising Review Criteria Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter...

173 - Color of Money

Elizabeth and Roger discuss whether all money is green in academia, panic writing, summary statements, and doing the work.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art of...

172 - The Value of Money

Elizabeth and Roger are here to discuss sending slides in advance, five minute meetings, making invisible work visible, and the value of external money in the academy.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter...

171 - Time Pies are Ruthless

Elizabeth and Roger discuss time pies, continuing resolutions, appropriations committees, head shots, travel receipts, and responding to RFAs. And Roger is recruiting a postdoc!   Show Notes Roger’s Postdoc Ad: https://rdpeng.org/postdoc.html Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on...

170 - Strategic Priorities

Elizabeth and Roger discuss a grab bag of work in progress and answer the question of whether you should ever align yourself with a fund agency’s strategic priorities.   Show Notes: College Pricing Game Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on...

169 - Synergistic Pet Peeve

Elizabeth and Roger, back in person together, discuss synergy that is totally not a pet peeve, caddies, Elizabeth’s steering committee, golf bullies, and making a course or curriculum.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on...

168 - The Academic Caddy

Elizabeth and Roger follow up on volunteering and then discuss new research buzzwords, communication platforms and their purposes, deflecting requests for money, and the role of caddies in academia.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report...

167 - Volunteerism

Elizabeth and Roger discuss the nature of volunteering in academia. Also, Roger settles into his new office, revisiting the interpretation of summary statements, and taking a “history” in collaborations.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report...

166 - Office Clean Out

Roger cleans out his office and finds some archaeological gems while Elizabeth experiences the beginner’s mind. Also, word salad, ignoring emails, and the International Space Station.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get...

165 - Crafting Your Craft

Roger and Elizabeth introduce the first in a series of “craft” segments that talk about the nuts and bolts of being an academic. They discuss how to review a paper, as well as study sections, and other work in progress....

164 - Rolling With the Chaos

It’s Elizabeth’s turn to welcome Roger back from the far north so that they can discuss cover letters (again!), corresponding authors, paper acceptances (and forgettances), chaos theory, and strategizing about new resources.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on...

163 - Roger’s Effort Report

Roger welcomes Elizabeth back from Finland to discuss conference COVID protocols, work creators, whether you should interview for a job, sussing out collaborators, and the great resignation. Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on...

162 - Letters of Recommendation

Elizabeth and Roger discuss how to write good letters of recommendation, as well as getting “scooped”, systems problems, and using golf carts.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book,...

161 - Longhorn Statistics

Elizabeth and Roger discuss Roger’s new job, “quick questions”, “warm bodies”, mock study sections, and the future of physician scientists.   Show Notes: The Case for Physician Scientists Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get...

160 - Executive Authors

Elizabeth and Roger determine if Elizabeth is executive material. They then discuss writing by committee, retooling your game, leadership lessons, and the NIH’s new data sharing policy.   Show Notes:   Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on...

159 - Study Section Drama

Elizabeth and Roger follow up on conference robots, then discuss department rankings, academia vs. industry, and reorganized NIH study sections.   Show Notes: Academia vs. Industry Thread by Darbe Saxbe NIH Study Sections Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter...

158 - Robot Presence

Roger and Elizabeth discuss telepresence robots, administrative grant rejections, plagiarism, DEI initiatives, and writing by committee. Also space junk!   Show Notes: Space junk U. of North Carolina’s Head of Research Cited for Research Misconduct Roger on Twitter...

157 - Corporate Committees

Elizabeth returns from the AAAAI meeting to talk with Roger about diversity in investigator teams, corporatization of committees, in-person meetings, and building your brand.   Show Notes: Building a Brand as a Scientist Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter...

156 - Crisis Management

Elizabeth and Roger discuss the computer desktop and browser hygiene, how to generate ideas (and other important questions), various leadership tricks, getting things done by creating a crisis, and how to deal with results that don’t hang together.   Show...

155 - In Compliance

Elizabeth and Roger discuss graphical abstracts, the success/failure dichotomy, hybrid meetings, handling Q&A; in talks, managing sponsors, and how to read RFAs.    Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book,...

154 - Closet Strategy

Elizabeth and Roger discuss the nature of success, hybrid meetings, hierarchy of problem realization, and dealing with uncertainty.   Show Notes: Have you considered accountancy? Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s...

153 - Making Decisions

Elizabeth and Roger discuss new research institutes, tradeoffs, committee structure, and how to decide whether to do something.   Show Notes: Arc Institute Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art...

152 - The Leaders and the Leaded

Elizabeth and Roger discuss contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements. Also, taking credit for other people’s work, being excited without being involved, and giving unsolicited advice.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s...

151 - Half Baked Ideas

Elizabeth and Roger revisit SEO for paper and then discuss email signatures, expanding curriculum, interpreting feedback, and being the “glue”.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art...

150 - Mind Your Manners

Elizabeth and Roger discuss letters of recommendation, leadership jargon, male-only dinners, the astronomy decadal review, and the art of the progress report.   Show Notes:  Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book,...

149 - Just Google It

Elizabeth and Roger discuss work in progress, treating postdocs like staff, research therapists, and teaching Googling skills.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art of Data Science...

148 - Conflicting Leadership

Elizabeth and Roger dedicate almost an entire episode to issues related to leadership.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art of Data Science Subscribe to the podcast...

147 - Ode to Bureaucracy

Elizabeth and Roger discuss process and org structure, thanking reviewers for their comments, research tourism, and the one page introduction to revised grants.   Show Notes: NIH Director steps down Health equity tourists Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on...

146 - Doubling Down

Elizabeth and Roger discuss double degrees, org charts, institutions and love, and Netflix’s The Chair.   Show Notes: Softspikes BLM8006 Golf Ball Alignment Tool , Green : Golf Swing Trainers : Sports & Outdoors Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on...

145 - Building the Response

Elizabeth and Roger discuss how to respond to things, like paper revisions. Also, they discuss school web sites, out of office messages, things they were told but ignored, and shameless self-promotion.   Show Notes: The Chair on Netflix Roger on...

144 - Strategic Calendaring

Elizabeth and Roger discuss institutional vs. field reputation, power sentences, SEO for authors, references, rules vs. common sense, and iteration.   Show Notes Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The Art...

143 - So Much Leadership

Elizabeth and Roger have a quadruple dose of Roger’s Leadership Academy, along with a discussion of how postdoctoral fellows should be spending their time.   Show Notes: Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and...

142 - Writing to Learn

Elizabeth and Roger continue to wrestle with writing and also discuss people who love meetings, details vs. quality, having the world crash around you, the ups and downs of grants, and a double dose of Roger’s Leadership Academy.   Show...

141 - Pandemic Over

Elizabeth and Roger finalize metrics for ending the pandemic, discuss cover letters, university accounting, Roger’s leadership skills, Twitter tenure, and grant writers. Also, a new segment is born: The Effort Report Correspondent!   Show Notes Wikipedia notability standard Roger...

140 - PERT Plus

Elizabeth and Roger discuss space surveys, project management, and Roger’s love of government manuals.   Show Notes: Don’t call them heroes PERT Roger on Twitter Elizabeth on Twitter Effort Report on Twitter Get Roger’s and Elizabeth’s book, The...