Author: Elise Alspach, PhD

Don’t Let the Cucumbers Get You!

picture of a cat and some cucumbers

Grant deadlines, amiright?! Just like the holidays, cucumbers (if you’re a cat), and your morning alarm, these things really have a habit of sneaking up on you. Submission deadlines for NSF fellowships and NIH F and K series grants are all within the next 3 months. And it’s already stressful balancing all the demands of […]

Give Your Manuscript That Summer Body: Trimming the Fat in Scientific Writing

bathroom scale with text "Help!" overlayed on a big stack of paper.

Picture this. A grant reviewer or journal editor is reading through your submission when all of a sudden they find themselves in a word maze. The sentence they just read is so long and complicated that they have no idea how what they’re reading relates to anything. They sigh, shake their head, and toss your […]