As you may know, asides sharing graduate school opportunities, I like to share practical insights and directional content that will give you a sense of what you are missing or not missing.
Serving you below:
HOW TO LEVERAGE "OPO" for grad school applications 👇
- A THREAD
2) OPO is an initialism coined from "Other People's Opportunities". This means you will be leveraging opportunities specific to others to your advantage. After this thread, you will stop asking:
"Can you share scholarships for Atmospheric Social Law"? 😂
(you get the drift).
3) PROCESS:
A) Once someone shares an opportunity. Say @olumuyiwaayo, @Jamaticulus or @AaronAkpuPhilip or myself shares an opportunity on our timeline, the first thing to do is to locate the name of the university and the country it is located.
4) (B) Type the name of the institution on Google and locate the website of your department. Often times, if there is a mass recruitment by the institution at the time you saw the ad, its likely there is something for prospective student looking to get into your department.
5) If otherwise, that is, if the ad you saw was particular to the advertised field, the leverage you have is that you are informed about the institution and you have the privilege to dig faculties.
(C) List the names of probable supervisors on the department's website.
6) (D) Write supervisor-specific emails to each one of them. You don't need to reference the ad you saw. Just cold email directly. If you don't know how to start, check my pinned post.
Do this for EVERY OPPORTUNITY posted by all academic influencers here.
7) (E) Keep a spreadsheet containing metadata like Name, Department, University, Country, + or - relies, request to be contacted later (with date).
This way, you will not miss out on anything or "Yakubu" any opportunity.
8) (F) Send a follow up email should you not get any response with 1-2 weeks. It's a pandemic and perhaps, response time could be longer. But ensure to do follow up.
Later, I will share more ideas on how to leverage another "open source" opportunity to your advantage.
9) I am hoping that you will stop asking to be served opportunities all the time (it's not like we will stop anyway). But... Hunt like a tiger too. Maybe in 2-4 years time, if we continue like this, there will be a Nigerian in every department in institutions across the world 😂.
10) Sit down, we've got you covered. We don't and are not joking with your future too. We will combine shouting (cc:@AaronAkpuPhilip) with succinct instructional/directional content to guide you to promise-land. Don't lose hope.
The Pechal Lab is looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic candidate for a Masters of Science (MS) program in the Department of Entomology at Michigan State University. This funded graduate position will focus on the
implementation of high-throughput omics, big data analytics (including machine learning), and molecular biology to evaluate and characterize decomposition dynamics. Dr. Pechal's lab values and supports racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity.
Anticipated Start Date: Fall 2021
Responsibilities: The overall project goal is to better understand how microbial communities and their functions change using a survey of postmortem microbiomes. The primary goal is to analyze these postmortem microbiomes for their application
MS Graduate Research Assistantship in Applied Forest Ecology
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
The Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University is seeking a qualified individual to work on the
effects of environmental conditions and management on resin duct formation of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) across the southeastern USA. The research is funded by USDA-NIFA and involves collaboration with several other universities.
Research topic: Climate change and management
strategies have the potential to alter the susceptibility of forest stands to catastrophic insect attack. We are looking for a motivated MS student to work with other team members to determine the effects of competition and water and nutrient availability on loblolly pine resin
M.S. Graduate Research Assistantship - Reintroduction Ecology of White-tailed Ptarmigan in New Mexico
Title: M.S. Graduate Research Assistantship Reintroduction Ecology of White-tailed Ptarmigan in New Mexico
Location: Las Cruces, NM (with fieldwork in the Pecos Wilderness)
Start Date: 5/15/2021
Last Date to Apply: 2/22/2021
Description:
The Lawson Lab in the New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Ecology at New Mexico State University (NMSU) invite applications for an MS
research assistantship, with field work beginning in mid-May 2021. The successful applicant will be part of a collaborative study between NMSU, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (DGF), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce white-tailed ptarmigan to their
Graduate Research Assistantships: environmental data revolution
The Stoichiometric Traits of Organisms In their Chemical Habitats (STOICH) team is recruiting applicants for 7-8 graduate student research assistant positions for Summer/Fall 2021 across three different institutions
Our interdisciplinary team will combine tools emerging from the data revolution and the ecological stoichiometry framework to advance our understanding of how the supply of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and
other essential elements constrain ecological, environmental, and evolutionary processes in aquatic ecosystems. Students will receive training in data science and team science as they develop relevant dissertation/thesis projects, and will interact with a diverse team including
PhD position - Ecological effects of beaver on biodiversity GYE - University of Wyoming
PhD Graduate Assistantship available to work with Dr. Melanie Murphy (Department of Ecosystem Science and Management/Program in Ecology) at University of Wyoming in collaboration with
Dr. Andrew Ray (Greater Yellowstone Network) and Dr. Blake Hossack (USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center)
Beavers (Castor canadensis) are keystone species that increase landscape heterogeneity by felling trees, building dams, and creating wetlands along streams and rivers
. By increasing the structural complexity, size, and hydroperiods of wetlands, beaver support a wide range of biodiversity. With recent increases in beaver abundance across many landscapes, there is a growing need to understand the relationship between beaver and biodiversity
PhD Research Assistantship- Using Data Science to Understand Farmer and Rural Community Climate Adaptation
The University of Vermont is seeking qualified applicants for a fully funded four-year doctoral project examining farmer perceptions and
behaviors related to climate change adaptation. The project includes the aggregation and development of a largescale dataset of farmer behavior and perceptions across US states, novel models of climate adaptation, and their application for farmer and rural community responses to
climate change.
Background
The research project with collaborators at University of Vermont (Dr. Meredith Niles, Dr. Nicholas Gotelli, Dr. Laurent Hébert-Dufresne) and University of Maine (Dr. Tim Waring, Dr. Brian McGill, Dr. Katie Corlew, Dr. Matthew Dube) seeks to understand