That’s not really true. You can write a review article as one of your first publications and use it to lay out what you intend to work on. People won’t take your review article as seriously as they will one written by Dr. Bigshot et al., but there certainly aren’t any rules against it.
Also, the NSF is thrilled if you’re a beginner and you’re doing any sort of popular outreach. They love pop science blogs.
NSF requires many things that are bad for your career. This may well be the point, to counterbalance other sources of judgement.
Outside of the purview of NSF, here is an essay on how history is not written by a historian who was, at the time, blogging anonymously. She was afraid of her colleagues seeing her blog close to her professional interests while being open about writing essays about manga.
That’s not really true. You can write a review article as one of your first publications and use it to lay out what you intend to work on. People won’t take your review article as seriously as they will one written by Dr. Bigshot et al., but there certainly aren’t any rules against it.
Also, the NSF is thrilled if you’re a beginner and you’re doing any sort of popular outreach. They love pop science blogs.
NSF requires many things that are bad for your career. This may well be the point, to counterbalance other sources of judgement.
Outside of the purview of NSF, here is an essay on how history is not written by a historian who was, at the time, blogging anonymously. She was afraid of her colleagues seeing her blog close to her professional interests while being open about writing essays about manga.