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141067/website.components.html.visitor.js"]" data-block-type="1337" data-definition-name="website.components.html" data-sqsp-block="text" data-website-component-id="d45c97e8427afcb0d760" id="block-d45c97e8427afcb0d760"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-text-block-container"> 1411 1412 <div class="sqs-html-content" data-sqsp-text-block-content><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I spoke with someone recently who asked this question. They are at a decision point in their career, and are open to industry and hybrid roles, but don't want to close the door on academia, which is still their first choice.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">When I defended my PhD in 2013, I briefly considered taking some time to recharge and to think through whether doing a postdoc was even the right next step. However, my supervisor was worried about losing momentum, plus I hadn't heard of anyone in my field actually getting a faculty job without one. So I didn't take the break. I did two postdocs back to back, in six years total.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I learned an enormous amount. But I also didn't think clearly about what I was actually training for. Looking back, I think that's the most important question to ask.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"><strong>What are you actually training for?</strong></h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">My two postdocs were very different from each other. The first was at a large research institute funded entirely by grants, with multiple research groups running in parallel and many staff scientists who focu
1412sed solely on research. It looked nothing like my PhD, which was a small university lab. At the institute, I learned how NIH funding works, how to apply for and execute grants, and how to lead high-profile multi-site projects. I built my network, and those connections ultimately led to my faculty job.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The second postdoc was much closer to a traditional university environment. I learned how to nurture a small research group, got more directly involved in data collection and administration, and watched my mentor navigate the balance of teaching, research, service, and clinical responsibilities â things I'd been largely shielded from at the institute.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Here's what's interesting: the faculty role I eventually got looked a lot more like my second postdoc in terms of environment and structure. But my current role as a data scientist maps more closely onto my first postdoc: the large research organization, the grant-driven culture, the juggling of competing priorities across parallel projects. I didn't anticipate that at the time, and it's made me realize how much the environment you train in shapes the work you end up doing.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"><strong>Would I do it again?</strong></h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Honestly, I'm not sure. Right after my PhD there's no way I was ready for the faculty role I got six years later. I needed that time. But those six years also directly contributed to the research drift I've written about â the gradual pull away from what originally drew me to the field. Had I started my own lab straight out of graduate school, it might have been more closely aligned with my actual interests.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">It was also a genuinely challenging period. The pay is low throughout your late twenties and early thirties. The mental health toll is real. I relocated to the US for my first postdoc and I'm still here thirteen years later, so it's safe to say that doing a postdoc completely altered the trajectory of my life. And yet, because it was such an intense shared experience, I made some of my closest lifelong friends during that time. The transient nature of a postdoc means those friends are now scattered across the globe â but, as one of them reminded me, that also means that anywhere I go, I have a friend to visit.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"><strong>Some questions worth asking before you decide:</strong></h3><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">What are you actually training for? Running a university lab, working in a research institute, or something in a hybrid or industry setting?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Are you curious about the applied aspects of your discipline and how it connects to real-world impact, products, or clinical translation? Hybrid postdocs are increasingly common in fields like digital health and offer exposure to both the research side and the commercial or translational side of the work you might be doing.</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">If you took a research position within an organization, would you be okay with it evolving into a more permanent staff scientist role? In my experience, once people get used to the stability and higher pay, they often don't end up applying for traditional faculty positions. That may be completely fine, but it's worth thinking about before you start.</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">What specific skills do you want to develop? Grant writing, leadership, a new technique, or something else?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">And perhaps most importantly: are you choosing a postdoc because it genuinely serves your goals, or because it's simply what people in your field do?</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p></li></ul><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">That last question is the one I never asked myself. I'm not sure my answer would have changed, but I think I would have made more intentional choices along the way if I had.</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p></div> 1413 1414 1415 1416<style id="container-styles">#block-d45c97e8427afcb0d760 { 1417 1418 1419 1420 } 1421 1422 #block-d45c97e8427afcb0d760 .sqs-html-content { 1423 1424 } 1425 1426 #block-d45c97e8427afcb0d760 { 1427 mix-blend-mode: var(--tweak-text-block-blend 1428 ); 1429 border-radius: var(--tweak-text-block-radius); 1430 } 1431 1432 1433 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1439 1440 1441</style> 1442 1443<style id="override-container-styles"> 1444 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1445 1446 1447 1448#block-d45c97e8427afcb0d760 { 1449 1450 } 1451 } 1452 1453 1454 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1455 #block-d45c97e8427afcb0d760 .sqs-html-content { 1456 1457 } 1458 } 1459 1460 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1461 1462 1463 1464 1465 1466 1467 }</style> 1468<style class="transform-overrides-vars"> 1469 1470</style> 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475</div> 1476</div></div></div></div></div></div> 1477 1478</div> 1479 1480<a class="blog-more-link" href="/writing/should-i-even-do-a-postdoc" data-animation-role="content">Read More</a> 1481 1482 1483 </div> 1484 </article> 1485 1486 <article class="blog-single-column--container entry blog-item no-image-fade-in"> 1487 1488 <div class="blog-single-column--text"> 1489 <div class="blog-meta-section"> 1490 <span class="blog-meta-primary"> 1491
1492 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 1493 1494 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a> 1495 </span> 1496 1497 1498 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 1499 1500 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">5/26/26</time> 1501 </span> 1502 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter"></span> 1503 1504 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter blog-category-delimiter"></span> 1505 1506 <span class="blog-meta-secondary"> 1507 1508 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 1509 1510 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a> 1511 </span> 1512 1513 1514 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 1515 1516 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">5/26/26</time> 1517 </span> 1518 1519 1520 1521</div> 1522<h1 class="blog-title"> 1523 1524 <a href="/writing/how-did-that-lead-to-this" data-no-animation> 1525 1526 How did THAT lead to THIS? On Belonging, Drift, and Finding Your Place 1527 </a> 1528</h1> 1529<div class="blog-excerpt"> 1530 <div class="blog-excerpt-wrapper"></div> 1531 1532 <div class="blog-body-wrapper"><div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" data-layout-label="Post Body" data-type="item" id="item-6a11eaec2105591a5f2ec09e"><div class="row sqs-row"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12"><div class="sqs-block website-component-block sqs-block-website-component sqs-block-html html-block" data-block-css="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.styles.css"]" data-block-scripts="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.visitor.js"]" data-block-type="1337" data-definition-name="website.components.html" data-sqsp-block="text" data-website-component-id="c63e7c08a9334b7a5c6f" id="block-c63e7c08a9334b7a5c6f"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-text-block-container"> 1533 1534 <div class="sqs-html-content" data-sqsp-text-block-content><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Why on earth am I here? This is the thought that kept running through my brain as I watched the cardiac procedure taking place. A few weeks before, I had been teaching psychology, and now here I was wearing scrubs for the first time in my life, surrounded by a ton of medical equipment and a flurry of activity. I tried my best to just stay out of the way. </p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">This was part of my orientation as a new data scientist so that I could learn the clinical context in which I was working. As I came to understand, the day-to-day activities of the role are actually quite similar to what I did before (coding, analyzing data, writing reports), and as time went on, the new role didn't feel so jarring. However, the sudden change in environment that I experienced in the first few weeks really took some getting used to, and even now four years later I find myself questioning my sense of belonging at times. </p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">This becomes especially apparent on the occasions when I am asked to present to the department. When most people giving similar presentations describe their background, they'll talk about the other medical areas they worked in, and how that led to their interest in their current work. I instead mention how I studied reading development in children and did research in schools, and I can just see the question marks popping into their heads. How did <em>that</em> lead to <em>this</em>?</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I think this impact on belonging is one of the consequences of drift. And what I'm wondering is whether addressing it requires some updating in the stories we tell about ourselves. Perhaps a throughline isn't just about what we do and our underlying why, but also about how we want to show up in our work. For me, this looks like being someone who can bridge different worlds, who understands what it's like to approach a field from the outside. It's about finding the unique perspective I bring. And it's about discovering new things to be curious about, even when the path that brought me here wasn't the one I planned.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I suspect I'm not alone in this. Many researchers find themselves in rooms where their background doesn't fit the expected narrative: not academic enough, not clinical enough, not technical enough.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Maybe a sense of belonging isn't about fitting the expected narrative. Maybe it's something we construct by claiming the story that connects where we've been to where we are, even when that story looks
1534nothing like anyone else's.</p></div> 1535 1536 1537 1538<style id="container-styles">#block-c63e7c08a9334b7a5c6f { 1539 1540 1541 1542 } 1543 1544 #block-c63e7c08a9334b7a5c6f .sqs-html-content { 1545 1546 } 1547 1548 #block-c63e7c08a9334b7a5c6f { 1549 mix-blend-mode: var(--tweak-text-block-blend 1550 ); 1551 border-radius: var(--tweak-text-block-radius); 1552 } 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561 1562 1563</style> 1564 1565<style id="override-container-styles"> 1566 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1567 1568 1569 1570#block-c63e7c08a9334b7a5c6f { 1571 1572 } 1573 } 1574 1575 1576 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1577 #block-c63e7c08a9334b7a5c6f .sqs-html-content { 1578 1579 } 1580 } 1581 1582 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1583 1584 1585 1586 1587 1588 1589 }</style> 1590<style class="transform-overrides-vars"> 1591 1592</style> 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597</div> 1598</div></div></div></div></div></div> 1599 1600</div> 1601 1602<a class="blog-more-link" href="/writing/how-did-that-lead-to-this" data-animation-role="content">Read More</a> 1603 1604 1605 </div> 1606 </article> 1607 1608 <article class="blog-single-column--container entry blog-item no-image-fade-in"> 1609 1610 <div class="blog-single-column--text"> 1611 <div class="blog-meta-section"> 1612 <span class="blog-meta-primary"> 1613 1614 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 1615 1616 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a> 1617 </span> 1618 1619 1620 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 1621 1622 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">4/14/26</time> 1623 </span> 1624 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter"></span> 1625 1626 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter blog-category-delimiter"></span> 1627 1628 <span class="blog-meta-secondary"> 1629 1630 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 1631 1632 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a> 1633 </span> 1634 1635 1636 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 1637 1638 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">4/14/26</time> 1639 </span> 1640 1641 1642 1643</div> 1644<h1 class="blog-title"> 1645 1646 <a href="/writing/you-need-to-stop" data-no-animation> 1647 1648 You Need to Stop: The Cost of Saying Yes to Everything as a Postdoc 1649 </a> 1650</h1> 1651<div class="blog-excerpt"> 1652 <div class="blog-excerpt-wrapper"></div> 1653 1654 <div class="blog-body-wrapper"><div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" data-layout-label="Post Body" data-type="item" id="item-69deb2f27595567a75b4d403"><div class="row sqs-row"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12"><div class="sqs-block website-component-block sqs-block-website-component sqs-block-html html-block" data-block-css="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.styles.css"]" data-block-scripts="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.visitor.js"]" data-block-type="1337" data-definition-name="website.components.html" data-sqsp-block="text" data-website-component-id="5cf73805e0b96bf64aed" id="block-5cf73805e0b96bf64aed"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-text-block-container"> 1655 1656 <div class="sqs-html-content" data-sqsp-text-block-content> 1657<p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">"You've taken on too much and you need to stop". </p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I had just submitted my very first NIH grant application, which ended up being down to the wire and submitted hours before it was due. I had lost a lot of sleep, and yet rather than rest and take a few days to enjoy the summer weather, I felt compelled to catch up on all the projects I wasn't working on when writing the grant. I immediately started sending updates to collaborators, apologizing for falling behind while the grant was consuming my time. To one of these emails, a senior colleague replied telling me I needed to take a break. </p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I am grateful to this colleague for even noticing how much I was working and for her deciding to tell me this. Many postdocs don't have anyone watching out for them in this way. But I do want to name the academic culture that made this feel necessary. I felt such pressure to produce, and felt like any time off would have a domino effect on everything that came after. That same year, even the five work days I took off to get MARRIED took a lot of willpower to quiet these voices in my head long enough to allow myself to disconnect from postdoc and be present in the moment. </p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I wonder whether a throughline would have helped me. At the time, I had no framework for evaluating opportunities. I was just trying to accumulate more papers, more collaborations, and more grants. What I didn't see was that the thread of my work was slowly disappearing under the pile. This grant, the one I had lost so much sleep over, wasn't even s
1657omething I was excited about, but rather something I felt that I should write because it would allow a connection between two institutions to form, and I thought that was a good political move for me to make. It wasn't funded, but if it were, it would have taken my work in yet another direction unrelated to my scientific curiosity, and compounded the drift I was experiencing even more. </p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">If I were to come up with it now, my throughline might have been something like understanding how the organization of the brain supports language learning. Considered in this light, this grant would have been a clear mismatch. What I might have worked on instead is a project that would have allowed me to further my interests, such as working with bilingual speakers. Instead, I tried to fit in cross-linguistic work in an unfunded capacity during both my postdocs, and because of that, it ultimately made up a small fraction of my CV.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">What I Would Ask Now</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Looking back, here are the questions I wish I'd been asking, questions that a clear throughline would have helped me answer:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">If this grant were funded, would I be excited? If it weren't, would I be relieved?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Am I genuinely interested in where this work leads, or am I just trying to get a publication out of it?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">If I were to get a position doing this type of work, would that interest me? Would I want to build a research program around this?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Am I saying yes to this because I want to, or because I'm afraid of what happens if I say no?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">If saying yes to this means dropping something I'm already doing, what would I drop? If I can't answer that (or if nothing seems worth dropping), that's a clear sign.</p></li></ul> 1658<p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">There are real structural forces at play in academic careers, and a throughline won't solve everything. But having one gives you a filter, and a filter gives you permission to say no. If you say yes to everything, you risk burning out before you can do the work that actually matters to you. Or you end up drifting so far from your curiosity that you end up building a research program that doesn't feel like yours.</p></div> 1659 1660 1661 1662<style id="container-styles">#block-5cf73805e0b96bf64aed { 1663 1664 1665 1666 } 1667 1668 #block-5cf73805e0b96bf64aed .sqs-html-content { 1669 1670 } 1671 1672 #block-5cf73805e0b96bf64aed { 1673 mix-blend-mode: var(--tweak-text-block-blend 1674 ); 1675 border-radius: var(--tweak-text-block-radius); 1676 } 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682 1683 1684 1685 1686 1687</style> 1688 1689<style id="override-container-styles"> 1690 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1691 1692 1693 1694#block-5cf73805e0b96bf64aed { 1695 1696 } 1697 } 1698 1699 1700 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1701 #block-5cf73805e0b96bf64aed .sqs-html-content { 1702 1703 } 1704 } 1705 1706 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1707 1708 1709 1710 1711 1712 1713 }</style> 1714<style class="transform-overrides-vars"> 1715 1716</style> 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721</div> 1722</div></div></div></div></div></div> 1723 1724</div> 1725 1726<a class="blog-more-link" href="/writing/you-need-to-stop" data-animation-role="content">Read More</a> 1727 1728 1729 </div> 1730 </article> 1731 1732 <article class="blog-single-column--container entry blog-item no-image-fade-in"> 1733 1734 <div class="blog-single-column--text"> 1735 <div class="blog-meta-section"> 1736 <span class="blog-meta-primary"> 1737
1738 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 1739 1740 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a> 1741 </span> 1742 1743 1744 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 1745 1746 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">3/24/26</time> 1747 </span> 1748 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter"></span> 1749 1750 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter blog-category-delimiter"></span> 1751 1752 <span class="blog-meta-secondary"> 1753 1754 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 1755 1756 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a> 1757 </span> 1758 1759 1760 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 1761 1762 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">3/24/26</time> 1763 </span> 1764 1765 1766 1767</div> 1768<h1 class="blog-title"> 1769 1770 <a href="/writing/the-postdoc-contradiction" data-no-animation> 1771 1772 The Postdoc Contradiction: Building Independence While Working on Someone Else's Vision 1773 </a> 1774</h1> 1775<div class="blog-excerpt"> 1776 <div class="blog-excerpt-wrapper"></div> 1777 1778 <div class="blog-body-wrapper"><div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" data-layout-label="Post Body" data-type="item" id="item-69c02145fac4005afe8a23d4"><div class="row sqs-row"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12"><div class="sqs-block website-component-block sqs-block-website-component sqs-block-html html-block" data-block-css="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.styles.css"]" data-block-scripts="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.visitor.js"]" data-block-type="1337" data-definition-name="website.components.html" data-sqsp-block="text" data-website-component-id="756f55bb01c1a82bf9ce" id="block-756f55bb01c1a82bf9ce"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-text-block-container"> 1779 1780 <div class="sqs-html-content" data-sqsp-text-block-content><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Postdocs are told to "develop your independent research identity." But you're working on your PI's grants. Their funded projects. Their research questions. How are you supposed to build a program that fits YOU when your work is structured around someone else's vision?</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">This isn't a personal failing. It's a structural contradiction built into how postdoc positions work. And it's why drift happens: not through one wrong turn, but through a series of reasonable decisions that gradually pull you away from what originally drew you to research.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Expectation versus the Reality</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The expectation is clear: use your postdoc years to establish your research direction, build your CV, and prepare for the faculty job market or your next career move.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">But the day-to-day reality? You're working on projects that were funded before you arrived, using methods your PI chose. You're contributing to their research vision, not building your own.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">I've written before about how my own postdoc work drifted from my PhD interests. What I didn't see at the time was the pattern beneath it. I took positions based on relationships, geography, and practicality. I said yes to projects because they were funded or because my PI asked. I kept my actual interests alive through unfunded collaborations on the side. Each decision made sense in the moment, but cumulatively they pulled me in directions I hadn't intended to go.</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">The Pattern</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">This isn't unique. Postdocs get chosen for reasons that have little to do with research f
1780it: grant funding, legacy work, mentorship opportunities, strategic positioning, or learning new skills.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Each decision is reasonable on its own. But over time, these WHYs accumulate. Genuine curiosity can shrink to 20% or less of what drives your work. Years pass, and you find yourself in a research program that looks good on paper but doesn't align with what you care about.</p><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Mapping It Out</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Recently, I mapped out what I was working on during each stage of my career, and more importantly, WHY I was doing it.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">What percentage of my time was driven by genuine curiosity versus funding, strategy, or obligation? When did my own interests become secondary? What did I try to keep alive on the side?</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Seeing this visually gave me perspective I didn't have before. </p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"><strong>Want to see where your drift happened?</strong> I created a free template to help you map your research journey and identify the WHYs that shaped your path. <a href="https://jeffmalins.kit.com/research-strategy-starter"><strong>Download the free template here</strong></a><strong>.</strong> It takes about 20 minutes and might give you clarity you didn't have before.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Finding Some Agency</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Understanding the pattern isn't about judgment. It's about seeing whatâs been driving your decisions so you can make different choices going forward.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">This also isn't about only choosing projects motivated by pure interest. It's about finding ways to work within real constraints while keeping your throughline alive.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Is there a twist you can put on a project that uses your own unique lens? Is there a method you're curious about? Is there an underlying community you're serving that taps into a value that matters to you?</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">Reflecting on these questions might shift how you see your work. Instead of feeling like all your time is spent on things you don't care about, you might find pieces that DO connect to your deeper motivations, even within projects assigned by your PI. It's about finding the thread that makes it feel connected and intentional.</p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true"></p></div> 1781 1782 1783 1784<style id="container-styles">#block-756f55bb01c1a82bf9ce { 1785 1786 1787 1788 } 1789 1790 #block-756f55bb01c1a82bf9ce .sqs-html-content { 1791 1792 } 1793 1794 #block-756f55bb01c1a82bf9ce { 1795 mix-blend-mode: var(--tweak-text-block-blend 1796 ); 1797 border-radius: var(--tweak-text-block-radius); 1798 } 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809</style> 1810 1811<style id="override-container-styles"> 1812 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1813 1814 1815 1816#block-756f55bb01c1a82bf9ce { 1817 1818 } 1819 } 1820 1821 1822 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1823 #block-756f55bb01c1a82bf9ce .sqs-html-content { 1824 1825 } 1826 } 1827 1828 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 }</style> 1836<style class="transform-overrides-vars"> 1837 1838</style> 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843</div> 1844</div></div></div></div></div></div> 1845 1846</div> 1847 1848<a class="blog-more-link" href="/writing/the-postdoc-contradiction" data-animation-role="content">Read More</a> 1849 1850 1851 </div> 1852 </article> 1853 1854 <article class="blog-single-column--container entry blog-item no-image-fade-in"> 1855 1856 <div class="blog-single-column--text"> 1857 <div class="blog-meta-section"> 1858 <span class="blog-meta-primary"> 1859
1860 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 1861 1862 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a><span class="blog-categories--comma">, </span> 1863 1864 <a href="/writing/category/Insights" class="blog-categories">Insights</a> 1865 </span> 1866 1867 1868 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 1869 1870 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">2/9/26</time> 1871 </span> 1872 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter"></span> 1873 1874 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter blog-category-delimiter"></span> 1875 1876 <span class="blog-meta-secondary"> 1877 1878 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 1879 1880 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a><span class="blog-categories--comma">, </span> 1881 1882 <a href="/writing/category/Insights" class="blog-categories">Insights</a> 1883 </span> 1884 1885 1886 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 1887 1888 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">2/9/26</time> 1889 </span> 1890 1891 1892 1893</div> 1894<h1 class="blog-title"> 1895 1896 <a href="/writing/postdoc-feels-scattered" data-no-animation> 1897 1898 Why Your Postdoc Feels Scattered: Fragmentation, Burnout, and Finding Your Throughline 1899 </a> 1900</h1> 1901<div class="blog-excerpt"> 1902 <div class="blog-excerpt-wrapper"></div> 1903 1904 <div class="blog-body-wrapper"><div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" data-layout-label="Post Body" data-type="item" id="item-69878f65863d7f6f74f15da3"><div class="row sqs-row"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12"><div class="sqs-block website-component-block sqs-block-website-component sqs-block-html html-block" data-block-css="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.styles.css"]" data-block-scripts="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.visitor.js"]" data-block-type="1337" data-definition-name="website.components.html" data-sqsp-block="text" data-website-component-id="af2dbc375812df2f6d28" id="block-af2dbc375812df2f6d28"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-text-block-container"> 1905 1906 <div class="sqs-html-content" data-sqsp-text-block-content><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">If your postdoc or research role feels scattered, like youâre constantly juggling projects and reacting to whatever funding comes through, it makes sense. Itâs genuinely hard to build something coherent in that environment.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Over the past few weeks, Iâve been talking with a number of researchers about this feeling of fragmentation. What Iâve noticed is that this isnât about individual focus or discipline. Itâs structural. Soft money, short-term funding, and constant pivots make it hard to shape your work with intention.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">On top of that, people simply work differently: some thrive going deep on one narrow question, while others do better with a small portfolio of projects.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The challenge isnât forcing yourself into one model. Itâs learning how to design your work deliberately and find the throughline that makes it all feel connected.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I started with a clear âwhyâ</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">My PhD began with a love of languages. I fell into psycholinguistics because it let me combine biology with questions about the structure of language. It felt aligned and curiosity-driven, and I had a strong sense of purpose.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">
1906Then I started my first postdoc. I moved to a new city (and a new country) where I didnât know anyone. While struggling with the change in environment, I was also adapting to a new research culture.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The institute where I landed was run entirely on soft money, so my work followed whatever projects had just been funded. Like many postdocs, the projects were adjacent to my interests rather than fully aligned, and they didnât always connect to each other. My second postdoc was similar, even though the environment and topics were different.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The drift I didnât notice</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Over time, my CV filled up with projects that were adjacent to my original interests rather than truly aligned with them. When I went on the job market, that patchwork of projects naturally shaped the research program I could propose.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Somewhere along the way, my research had drifted, and my sense of <em>why</em> drifted with it.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I didnât fully see it at the time, but I think that loss of clarity contributed to the burnout I later felt as a faculty member. Itâs hard to stay energized when youâre no longer sure what thread connects your work, or when the program youâre running doesnât fully align with your deeper motivations.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">When I moved to industry, the same sense of being scattered showed up again. I had changed fields from educational neuroscience into healthcare data science and AI, and for a long stretch I couldnât see how my past work connected to my current work. That uncertainty brought a lot of doubt with it.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What finally helped</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What helped wasnât finding the perfect title or perfectly aligned job. The shift came when I started paying attention to the questions that kept following me from one setting to another.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Instead of asking whether a position matched my background, I began asking what problems I kept caring about no matter where I was working.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I noticed that I was always drawn back to the same themes: how data can guide more personalized decisions, and how we communicate science in ways that genuinely help people. Even as the fields and job titles changed, those questions stayed consistent. They became the throughline that connected everything.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Holding onto the thread</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Having gone through this myself, I now help researchers step back and see the thread thatâs already there: the questions, skills, and motivations that connect their work across projects and roles.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Careers donât have to look linear to be meaningful. But it helps enormously to understand what ties the pieces together, especially when everything around you keeps shifting.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">That sense of coherence can be the difference between feeling scattered and feeling like youâre moving forward with intention.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A small reflection, if youâre in this phase</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">If any of this feels familiar, it might help to pause and ask yourself:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What kinds of problems do I keep returning to, even when the projects change?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What skills or ways of thinking show up again and again?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">When have I felt most engaged?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">If titles and funding constraints disappeared, what questions would I still want to pursue?</p></li></ul><p class="sqsrte-large" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Often thereâs a thread already there. It just takes a bit of distance to see how the pieces connect.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p></div> 1907 1908 1909 1910<style id="container-styles">#block-af2dbc375812df2f6d28 { 1911 1912 --stroke-style: none;--stroke-thickness: 6px; 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 } 1922 1923 #block-af2dbc375812df2f6d28 .sqs-html-content { 1924 1925 --tweak-text-block-padding: 6% 6% 6% 6%; 1926 --tweak-text-block-padding: initial; 1927} 1928 1929 #block-af2dbc375812df2f6d28 { 1930 mix-blend-mode: var(--tweak-text-block-blend 1931 ); 1932 border-radius: var(--tweak-text-block-radius); 1933 } 1934 1935 1936 1937#block-af2dbc375812df2f6d28 { 1938 --tweak-text-block-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; 1939 } 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 #block-af2dbc375812df2f6d28 { 1946 } 1947 1948</style> 1949 1950<style id="override-container-styles"> 1951 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1952 1953 1954 1955#block-af2dbc375812df2f6d28 { 1956 1957 } 1958 } 1959 1960 1961 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1962 #block-af2dbc375812df2f6d28 .sqs-html-content { 1963 1964 } 1965 } 1966 1967 @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 }</style> 1975<style class="transform-overrides-vars"> 1976 1977</style> 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982</div> 1983</div></div></div></div></div></div> 1984 1985</div> 1986 1987<a class="blog-more-link" href="/writing/postdoc-feels-scattered" data-animation-role="content">Read More</a> 1988 1989 1990 </div> 1991 </article> 1992 1993 <article class="blog-single-column--container entry blog-item no-image-fade-in"> 1994 1995 <div class="blog-single-column--text"> 1996 <div class="blog-meta-section"> 1997 <span class="blog-meta-primary"> 1998
1999 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 2000 2001 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a><span class="blog-categories--comma">, </span> 2002 2003 <a href="/writing/category/Insights" class="blog-categories">Insights</a> 2004 </span> 2005 2006 2007 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 2008 2009 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">1/20/26</time> 2010 </span> 2011 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter"></span> 2012 2013 <span class="blog-meta-delimiter blog-category-delimiter"></span> 2014 2015 <span class="blog-meta-secondary"> 2016 2017 <span class="blog-categories-list"> 2018 2019 <a href="/writing/category/Blog" class="blog-categories">Blog</a><span class="blog-categories--comma">, </span> 2020 2021 <a href="/writing/category/Insights" class="blog-categories">Insights</a> 2022 </span> 2023 2024 2025 <span class="blog-author">Jeff Malins</span> 2026 2027 <time class="blog-date" pubdate data-animation-role="date">1/20/26</time> 2028 </span> 2029 2030 2031 2032</div> 2033<h1 class="blog-title"> 2034 2035 <a href="/writing/from-scattered-ideas-to-a-focused-research-plan" data-no-animation> 2036 2037 From Scattered Ideas to a Focused Research Plan 2038 </a> 2039</h1> 2040<div class="blog-excerpt"> 2041 <div class="blog-excerpt-wrapper"><p style="white-space:pre-wrap;" data-rte-preserve-empty="true">What happens when you say yes to good projects that donât quite fit? A reflection on early-career research, burnout, and why a clear roadmap matters.</p></div> 2042 2043 <div class="blog-body-wrapper"><div class="sqs-layout sqs-grid-12 columns-12" data-layout-label="Post Body" data-type="item" id="item-6962c7c168d4ec780354f0f3"><div class="row sqs-row"><div class="col sqs-col-12 span-12"><div class="sqs-block website-component-block sqs-block-website-component sqs-block-html html-block" data-block-css="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.styles.css"]" data-block-scripts="["https://definitions.sqspcdn.com/website-component-definition/static-assets/website.components.html/dd67834c-aac8-460c-97f6-e9e034e58ef8_967/website.components.html.visitor.js"]" data-block-type="1337" data-definition-name="website.components.html" data-sqsp-block="text" data-website-component-id="40e4632c7101dd31039a" id="block-40e4632c7101dd31039a"><div class="sqs-block-content"><div class="sqs-text-block-container"> 2044 2045 <div class="sqs-html-content" data-sqsp-text-block-content><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Now that the new year has started, many researchers are no doubt thinking about their research plans for the months ahead. With everything going on, it can feel harder than usual to focus, plan, or hold big-picture questions.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I was in a tenure-track faculty role for three years. When I started, I already had some existing projects and collaborations (part of the reason I felt the university was a good fit for my work), but I also wanted to launch new initiatives to gain momentum for the lab. </p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">However, the challenge was that I lacked strategic direction. Most of the activities I said 'yes' to were things I felt I should be doing as a new faculty member, rather than actions that fit into an overarching, coherent vision for my lab. As a result, it felt like I had a jumble of competing priorities and scattered ideas vying for my attention. </p><p class="sqsrte-large" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Three Projects That Helped Me Understand the Cost of Misalignment</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">To be clear, I really enjoyed working with all my collaborators. The people were fantastic. The issue wasnât who I worked with, but rather that the projects themselves werenât always aligned with my long-term vision for my research, coupled with the fact that I didn't have a very strong vision to begin with!</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">My lab focused on the brain organization for reading and language in children and adults, with an emphasis on learning challenges and bilingualism. The
2045se three projects fell well outside that focus, but I said yes to them anyway. </p><ol data-rte-list="default"><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>Basic visual processing study.</strong> I agreed to direct a component of a project on basic visual processing because it seemed like a quick way to get my EEG lab running and to help students gain hands-on experience in data collection.</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>EEG in clinical populations.</strong> I joined a grant team for a project in a clinical setting, hoping to network with other researchers and build connections for future collaborations.</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>Student-driven social impact project.</strong> A student wanted to extend a class assignment into a publication. The project was meaningful and aligned with broader social issues I care deeply about, but it wasnât connected to my labâs core focus.</p></li></ol><p class="sqsrte-large" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In each case, the project itself was valuable and interesting. But by saying yes without a clear framework for alignment, my attention and energy were pulled in directions that didnât serve my main goals.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><h3 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">A Clearer Roadmap</h3><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">It could be argued that these weren't poor choices. There were good motivations behind them. But all three did contribute to me feeling like my research was scattered and that the bulk of my time was spent doing a bunch of random projects that diluted the 'brand' of my lab. As a consequence, I lacked momentum, and I felt like I was stretched too thin. Of course, these weren't the only factors -- there was also a global pandemic going on -- but I can trace some of the origins of my exhaustion and burnout to this feeling. </p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">At the same time, I said yes to a number of projects that did fit into a larger plan, and I'm glad I did. However, looking back now, I can see that a clearer roadmap would have gone a long way toward refining my confidence when making decisions about where to focus my energy. </p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">With this roadmap in hand, I could have asked myself a few simple questions before committing to new projects:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Does this align with my long-term vision?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Does it move my core research forward?</p></li><li><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">What am I saying no to by saying yes?</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p></li></ul><p class="sqsrte-large" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Asking these questions can create a sense of calm and clarity, helping you make choices about projects, collaborations, and requests with purpose. 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