I recently had a paper published in the AHA journal, Hypertension (here: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.123.22714). The submission required that I include a graphical abstract that was 15×15 cm at 300 dpi and saved in a jpeg format. (That’s 15/2.54*300 = 1772 x 1772 pixels.) I’ve been trying to use EPS files to get around annoying journal image …
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Those of us with accounts at both the Larner College of Medicine (hereafter, “med.uvm”) and UVM Health Network (hereafter, “uvmhealth.org”) know the frustration of trying to access uvmhealth.org resources from the web on anything but a medical center-owned computer or the Virtual Desktop. For me, I notice the uvmhealth.org account auto-logs out on my home …
We have 2 separate email accounts at UVM if you are on the medical faculty: (1) the College of Medicine aka med.uvm.edu and (2) the hospital aka uvmhealth.org. They don’t integrate. (There’s actually a 3rd one with the University aka uvm.edu without the med, but that easily forwards to the College of Medicine email.) Having …
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Tables can render weirdly in MS Word and Powerpoint, and you can have a hard time figuring out why. Here’s few steps to fix them so they are snappy. First: MS Word example (see Powerpoint below) You get a table that looks like this. You start pulling your hair. (Ignore that there are only 3 …
Scheduling meetings with someone inside of your institution is pretty easy in Outlook since you can typically look at shared availability with the Scheduling Assistant when generating a calendar invitation. Things get a bit more complex for folks outside of your institutions, which is why there are services like Doodle, WhenIsGood.net, and When2Meet.com. When you …
Writing the first draft of a scientific conference abstract is challenging. As part of an Early Career Advisory Committee ‘Science Jam’ sponsored by the UVM CVRI, a group of us came up with fill-in-the-blank, Mad Lib-style guide to help guide the completion of the first draft of a scientific conference abstract. There’s one Zip file …
Why Zotero? Zotero is an excellent and free reference manager that is my go-to for writing grants and manuscripts. It has some very handy features, like word processor plugins, web browser plugins that will grab PDF versions of documents if available, and ability to share “group libraries” with collaborators. It has all of the standard …
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It’s just a little too long! You’ve toiled on your grant day in and out for weeks on end, and despite chopping out loads of overly verbose text, it’s still over the length. It turns out that there are some built-in settings in MS Word to help you get below the length limit without removing …
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Your first manuscript will be be very hard The first manuscript you’ll ever write is probably best described as a ‘slog’. It’ll take 2-3 times longer than you expect. This’ll be from a few different reasons: Here’s a resource that can help I developed this generic research manuscript over several years of slogging through first …
Why use Chrome extensions? Let’s be honest. Much of modern epidemiological research will be online, whether it be cruising PubMed, journal websites, learning introductory concepts on Wikipedia, or just straight-up Googling. You might as well optimize Chrome to help you surf for research in the most productive way possible. Here’s a list of Chrome extensions …
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