10 repeat mistakes from this year’s fellowships…avoid them for a killer application

Phew, Marie Curie postdoc fellowship applications were finally submitted almost two weeks ago now, and I just now feel like I am catching my breath! I had more applications to work on this year than ever before, so a lot of the repeating patterns really stood out…which means I get to tell you guys my […]
Can we learn what a grant reviewer is thinking based on their language?

Grant deadlines are approaching, and this season, I’m proposing a shift in thinking about proposal writing. For our next grant, lets’s remove all the shoulds and musts we think exist in application writing, like “I need to include all of my preliminary data”, “I should include all of the relevant literature so they can see […]