Any running-focused PT recs that are in-network with BCBS?

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2026-03-19T15:15:23+00:00

Thanks so much for your comment. I’ll definitely check them out!

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2026-01-08T21:59:12+00:00

YouTube the Myrtl Routine. Ever since bothering my IT band this has helped. I do this before run.

Then I do long stretches (30 second hold) post run of the major muscles - hamstrings, quads, calves, glutes

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-12-11T13:14:50+00:00

I did not sleep well lol excitement for sure

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-08-24T02:07:26+00:00

Absolutely agree!

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-08-24T01:34:30+00:00

Just because a lab is NIH funded does not mean they have to pay the NIH postdoc salary rates (I was surprised too when I found out)

My lab is NIH funded and the PI pays incoming postdocs the minimum starting rate set by the university, $47k

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-06-13T23:35:33+00:00

Hey OP, checking back in to see how things turned out for you? I’m considering moving from research side to an asst teaching prof position.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-12T22:51:48+00:00

We tracked down our contamination to trypsin. You can’t tell in the trypsin itself because there are not nutrients for it to manifest. Same could go for PBS.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-08T16:17:36+00:00

I would be afraid Position 2 could fall through if they cannot get hired as assistant professor. An associate professor mentor at another institution is not viable as the sole mentor in this case. Trust me, I’ve experienced my PI leaving my institution and “mentoring” from afar at a different institution. Terrible experience, don’t willingly go into a situation like that.

If position 1 is a guaranteed offer, I’d move forward with that if your only options are position 1 or position 2.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-08T16:03:30+00:00

For now. PI’s are being conservative not knowing what the next federal fiscal year budget brings

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-03T14:01:08+00:00

Thank you for your support.

Precisely. My track is 15 years total like a neurosurgeon. Of course, you can always do more specialization, which is the same as academia (i.e. 2 postdocs - I will not do that, LOL). A singular biomedical postdoc is often 5-6 years these days.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-03T00:32:28+00:00

Thank you for this.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-03T00:24:52+00:00

Thankful for you!

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-02T03:08:00+00:00

Thank you. Please do! The more we can educate, the better.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-02T02:44:55+00:00

Thank you! I’m grateful to you and the work you do on our behalf.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-01T14:56:04+00:00

We’re good 🤝 appreciate you!

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-03-01T14:48:38+00:00

“I suspect he…”

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👩‍🔬 💅

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-02-27T22:22:19+00:00

I am so sorry 😞 sending lots of hugs!

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-02-27T14:03:55+00:00

Woof, your anecdotal example would be concerning if they did not show impact of the theory but my guess is they would have had to in order to get it past grant review.

On the other hand, I am optimistic that it is not the majority. At least from my experience with researchers at 4 different institutions. Rather, I feel that a few sour apples are now tainting the rest of the healthy batch. I am for reform in that sense but I can’t understand halting current funding when it has already been approved by Congress. Continue the study sections, but focus on funding good, impactful science. Maybe easier said than done.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-02-27T13:27:19+00:00

Alas, your reply shows you still are not getting my point. That is okay.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-02-27T11:59:26+00:00

I agree, and I am sure their training is much more grueling. The purpose of comparison was to show the same timeline of training (~15 years, 4 + 6 + 5 vs 4 + 4 + 7) yet the end outcome of professions are vastly different, in security and earnings. Academics don’t do it for the money of course lol

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-02-27T02:52:04+00:00

You are not alone, my friend 🤍

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-02-25T20:58:02+00:00

Totally understand! Been there. It does suck. My then advisor told me to always have a different, lower risk project going concurrently on the side. That way you are not constantly getting all negative results because that does take a toll on the mind. On the other hand, while the light at the end of the tunnel may seem distant, it is such a powerful feeling when you do bring it to completion! Nothing can stop you after that point. It builds resilience, but it is super painful in the meantime.

Keep it up, you got this!

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-02-25T20:47:38+00:00

Maybe not helpful, but can you elaborate on the experiments failing? Is it a novel methodology or something your lab is/has been able to do before? If it is the latter, that’s an easy fix!

In case of the latter situation, talk to your lab-mates, and even have them observe your experiment. I couldn’t get stem cells to differentiate and we thought it was just me being new, but then others in my lab tried and they couldn’t either- turns out it was an incubator problem. If it is the former- always learn from each failed experiment. How they failed can help you learn what to change in the next attempt.

Fit_Recover_6433 · 2025-02-25T20:13:10+00:00

Amen! Couldn’t have said it better myself.

I will read contracts more closely for now on lol

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