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Remarks on faculty job searches (as 'tis the season):
Chances are, as a faculty candidate you apply to several job ads.
Dozens. More.
You wait. You hope.
(quick thread)
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#PILife #PDLife #AcademicJobs
Chances are, as a faculty candidate you apply to several job ads.
Dozens. More.
You wait. You hope.
(quick thread)
1/n
#PILife #PDLife #AcademicJobs
Some places will respond with a rejection pretty quickly. Form letter.
Sometimes hilariously addressed to Dear [Applicant Name3].
Are you just a number? At this stage, likely.
Others never get back to you. Or years (!) later.
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Sometimes hilariously addressed to Dear [Applicant Name3].
Are you just a number? At this stage, likely.
Others never get back to you. Or years (!) later.
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This is normal and as in any higher-level job with lots of competition.
The waiting, the rejections, and the no-responses are depressing. Discouraging. At times unhealthy.
"Does nobody care about my ideas? My science? Me?"
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The waiting, the rejections, and the no-responses are depressing. Discouraging. At times unhealthy.
"Does nobody care about my ideas? My science? Me?"
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As undergrad, I struggled immensely with this: reading and omg understanding papers.
Especially as non-native English speaker.
I did develop a system that helped me back then.
Bear with me it is pretty...mundane. 1/n
#reading #PhDLife #PDlife #undergradlife #papers #science
Especially as non-native English speaker.
I did develop a system that helped me back then.
Bear with me it is pretty...mundane. 1/n
#reading #PhDLife #PDlife #undergradlife #papers #science
I printed each paper. And while reading I used a yellow, a green, and a pink highlighter.
When reading, I labeled every first mention of an abbreviation in green.
This helped me to find their meaning quickly again when deep into the text.
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When reading, I labeled every first mention of an abbreviation in green.
This helped me to find their meaning quickly again when deep into the text.
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In pink, I labeled key questions and take-home messages.
If done correctly, you can look at pink sentences alone and recap the whole paper.
Peo-rip: first and last sentences of paragraphs often are pink sentences.
Pro-tip 2: write papers that have pink sentences.
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If done correctly, you can look at pink sentences alone and recap the whole paper.
Peo-rip: first and last sentences of paragraphs often are pink sentences.
Pro-tip 2: write papers that have pink sentences.
3/n
Today, we officially welcomed (via Zoom) our latest postdoc to the lab: Robert Lalonde!
Excited to have Rob with us @CUAnschutz to decipher mesodermal cell fate control.
Current lab pic:
#zebrafish #PILife #PDLife #WFH #mosimannlabgoesvirtual
Excited to have Rob with us @CUAnschutz to decipher mesodermal cell fate control.
Current lab pic:
#zebrafish #PILife #PDLife #WFH #mosimannlabgoesvirtual
...and also, Jelena (still in Switzerland) got her lab notebook computer delivered for enhanced #WFH :).
(not shown, reactions to me testing out new microphone settings that caused more head/earache than improvement) #lofi #Zoomedout
