30 Nerdy Days
A 30-day challenge to boost your scholarly activity
An end of the year challenge to push through on your academic writing and scholarly activity projects with support, accountability, and community.
About the challenge...
The days are getting shorter and 2021 is coming to a close. We created this FREE & FUN 30-day challenge to help provide some motivation and accountability so you can finish your year strong.
Whether you’re an academic research with 50 peer-reviewed publications or a student dipping your toe into your first review article, we’re here to support your efforts!
In a private Facebook group, Drs. Giselle Aerni and Jenny Hunnicutt will provide weekly coaching and teaching on mindset and writing tips. We’ll prompt you to post your daily goals and accomplishments throughout the 30-day challenge to help you reach your goals. And we’ll host weekly coffee-house co-working hours on zoom for when you’re missing the comradery of sitting down next to other people who are focused on getting the work done.
Giselle Aerni, MD
Challenge Co-Lead
Dr. Aerni is a sports medicine physician who has been program director for two fellowships, creating their research curriculum, and helping fellows, residents, students, ATCs, and more, to develop, publish, and present sports medicine related research. Dr. Aerni is an accomplished author with over twenty publications and dozens of presentations at the national level. In addition to her academic work, Dr Aerni is the founder and host of the Madam Athlete podcast where she interviews women working in sports and athletics and she is the creator of the Women’s Career Transformation Academy where she works to empower women working in male-dominated fields to take charge of their own career journeys with confidence.
Jenny Hunnicutt, PhD
CHALLENGE CO-LEAD
Dr. Hunnicutt is a certified athletic trainer with a Masters in Sports Medicine and a PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. After working as the sports medicine research and education coordinator at Emory University, Dr. Hunnicutt decided to open her own business and started Hunnicutt Writing and Consulting, LLC where she works with research teams, businesses, and professionals all over the world in the fields of sports medicine and orthopedics. She is a published author in several high impact journals and a national level presenter. In addition to her academic writing, Dr. Hunnicutt also specializes in technical writing, copywriting, and providing consultation on research design and statistical analyses.
FREE Weekly Teaching
Mindset Work
- Effective Goal-Setting
- Motivation
- Fear of Failure
- Productivity & Prioritizing
- Gratitude
Writing Tips
- Navigating Different Types of Academic Writing
- The Practice of Academic Writing
- Overcoming Writer's Block
- What Makes Good Academic Writing
- Building Your Writing Team
Is this for you??
This is a FREE challenge! It’s for fun, it’s for encouragement, it’s for a little support and accountability to help you get after your end of year goals.
Do you have to have a double-blinded randomized controlled trial ready to write up this second in order to participate in the challenge? Hells no!
Maybe you have a lit search you need to get started on. Maybe you’re in the middle of a grant proposal that is taking forever and you need a little accountability to get it done. Maybe you’re starting a new sports medicine blog and would benefit from daily encouragement to help you make some real progress. Maybe you don’t have a scholarly project you’re working on right now, but you’d like to use this opportunity to brainstorm what you could do.
Are you feeling this?
The skies the limit!
This is a 30-day accountability challenge.
You set your goal!
You set your daily work. It could be to write 500 words, or it could be to read 2 articles, or it could be to spend 30 minutes per day brainstorming your future academic career, or it could be that you want to network with other researchers in your field so every day you’re going to reach out to a new researcher about one of their articles you just read.
Seriously, it could be anything!
We’re focusing the work on academic writing and scholarly activity, but the weekly mindset teaching would be applicable to ANYONE in ANY situation. And the daily Facebook accountability posts, are a way for you to commit to your goals and check back in when you’re done to build that accountability in a community of awesome people getting after their goals and supporting and encouraging one another.
Are You Ready To Do This?
Sign up here to save your spot in the challenge! You’ll get an email welcoming you to the 30 Nerdy Days party with a link to join the Facebook group. Let’s goooo!