Betty S. Lai

Working on a grant?

Check out my free, interactive worksheets. They include a pre-submission checklist and action steps for writing your next fundable grant.

You can download them here:
thegrantwritingguide.com/worksheets

Please share if you know someone who might be working on a grant!

Using consistent presentation and organization will go far towards reducing cognitive load, allowing reviewers to focus what is key.. your ideas! Here, @bettyslai.bsky.social discusses why and where to be consistent in your grant proposal.

#academicsky

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🤯didn’t realize it applied to other books. Good to know! 😍🤣

Well, with the rejection of my BBRF Young Investigator Grant application and a local foundation grant application, I am now more than halfway towards my goal of 100 rejections (54/100 to be exact)!

I learned this philosophy from @bettyslai.bsky.social (thread continues below)

#rejection #grants

Just ordered Make Your Manuscript Work! Cant wait to apply the advice to my manuscript.

@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social is one of my favorite authors. 💜

So happy you are getting your work and ideas out into the world! Rejections sting, but they are a sign of hard work. Good things are coming! 💜

Personal Statements: The Swagger Mindset How do you talk about your achievements?

For some, talking (or writing) about yourself can be uncomfortable, but in this recent blog post, @bettyslai.bsky.social discusses how you can (and should) adopt a swagger mindset when writing your grant's personal statements!

#academicsky #grantwriting

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I love this book! A great time to snag a copy (and while you're at it, The Grant Writing Guide is also 50% off)!

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A very important op-ed. ⬇️

Great idea! Thank you!

If you're looking to:
+Establish your public profile.
+Make connections.

Then LinkedIn can be really useful to you, even as a scholar.

Join me for a free webinar with marketing expert Tracey Shell:
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March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Interested in working in Madrid as a teacher educator for ESL? Universidad Complutense is hiring PhDs for initial ESL teacher education. Apply here today: www.ucm.es/convocatoria... and in April, 4 more vacancies will be open :-)

At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.

NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

Welcome to Boston College! I hope you will love LSEHD, as I have!

Bring your ☕️ to hear the tea on non-federal funding for #impsci research!

A photo of the corner of a map with Australia and New Zealand visible.

The times for A Meeting With Your Writing in Australia and NZ are a bit weird in March due to DST shenanigans up north, but settle down again from either 31 March or 7 April. See updated times here: academicwritingstudio.co.uk/australians-...

How can scholars use LinkedIn to:
+Position yourself as a thought leader.
+Connect with others.

Join us to learn how. Free webinar with marketing expert Tracey Shell. Sign up here:
scholarfoundations.com/linkedin

Thank you so much, Erin!

Ah, thank you, Christen! I appreciate you saying that!

Thank you!!!

Thank you, Jen!

Thank you so much!!

New preprint!

Ever heard that personality doesn't change? Do you believe that? (you shouldn't)

Using data from an online survey (n = 887) & eight longitudinal datasets (n = 166,971), we compared perceived vs. actual lifespan changes in personality and 20+ individual differences (1/8)
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How’s your TBR stack? We have episodes featuring the authors of all of these books, sharing their work. 🎧 📚💙⬇️

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I got promoted to Full Professor.

💜 I'm grateful to my mentors, students, and family.

Digital Health Industry Internship Program - TYDE Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment and the Society of Digital Mental Health have partnered to create the Digital Health Industry Internship Program, a paid summer internship program that provides...

Are you a graduate student interested in learning more about industry? Apply to the Digital Health Industry Internship program! Current listings are due March 15 and April 1. tyde.virginia.edu/internships/ #digitalmentalhealth

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

Hundreds of research grants at Columbia canceled following Trump edict, administrator says The National Institutes of Health is terminating 232 grants for scientific research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, according to an email an administrator sent to faculty.

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (U.S. National Park Service)

And the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with the NPS has been terminated under Trump's Executive Order. Take a look at all this amazing work while you still can.
And shout out to all the people working to find news ways to support these scholars.
🗃️
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