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Oct 14 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
Are you a PhD who is curious about #altac jobs but doesn't want to go into big tech?

Here are 5 places to find diverse jobs in mission-oriented organizations 👇🏼
The Social Impact Job Board posts a variety of jobs that are with social impact oriented companies and organizations.

Bonus: salary transparency is required for every job posted!

wordsparkconsulting.com/social-impact-…
Interested in working for think tanks?

The @onthinktanks has a job board for you filled with think tank jobs!

onthinktanks.org/jobs/
The non-profit space can be great for PhDs!

Non-profits often need program managers, researchers, and skilled communicators to achieve their mission.

Check out this site to find open positions at non-profits around the country!

nationalnonprofits.org/nonprofit-jobs…
Is #EdTech more your interest? EdTech companies are great options for PhDs.

EdTech keeps you connected to schools and students. Lot's of space for research but also management roles, too!

Check out @EdSurge's job board.

edsurge.com/jobs/
More #EdTech can be found on LinkedIn.

This #UX of EdTech page focuses specifically on UX research and regularly posts job lists.

linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
I'm a PhD working in the non-profit space with a goal to improve #highered.

Give me a follow for more on PhD careers, books, and science.

RT the first tweet to spread the word and help other PhDs explore the #altac possibilities!

cc' @AltAcChats
BONUS: Follow this ever growing list of #AltAc (social) scientists to see the diversity of career paths you can take outside the TT professorship, and build your network!

twitter.com/i/lists/143980…
🚨Additional job board links incoming from the comments🚨

Canadian job board👇🏼
For effective altruism enthusiasts 👇🏼

80000hours.org/job-board/
Jobs in data analytics 👇🏼
Union and socially allied jobs 👇🏼
UK job board 👇🏼
.@ycombinator job board at all sorts of startups👇🏼
Public interest coding jobs 👇🏼
Nature tech jobs 👇🏼
More nonprofits👇🏼
Climate jobs🌎🌍🌏👇🏼

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Oct 15
Americans hardly move.

At all.

I was shocked when I got a Apple watch last year to learn that I wouldn’t hit 2k steps on a normal day (work at home, no gym).

It’s insanely easy to eat too many calories with so little movement - weight gain follows.
Historically people moved — a lot!

They also had less easy access to food overall, and especially calorically dense food that is every where in the US.

Try actually walking 10k steps a day. You’ll be amazed at how much you have to move to hit that & also that you’ll be hungry.
And then read this book.

This is the most practically useful science book I’ve read.

I started moving more — thats it. Literally walking and standing more.

No more back or feet pain.

5lbs lost

Increased Vo2

Decreased heart rate. Image
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Oct 12
Growth mindset is an interesting area of research to demonstrate how interpretation of effect sizes can drive narratives around impact; and a great example of how small effect sizes are in educational interventions.

A🧵
The two best and recent studies on growth mindset (GM) are a 2018 meta-analysis and a 2019 large scale intervention.

The meta-analysis concluded that GM impacts are minimal, effect size around .10, but may show some impact for low SES + at risk students.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…
This meta-analysis was widely hailed as the best evidence that GM is crap -- a wasted effort on the part of schools that has no real impact.

After all, an effect size of .10 is hardly something to write home about.

But the next year, a new paper came out..
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May 6
"Today's college students expect to make about $103,880 in their first post-graduation job, a survey suggests. But the reality is much lower – as the average starting salary is actually about half that at $55,260, statistics show."

whomp.

usatoday.com/story/money/pe…
"Journalism students, for example, expected 139% more than the median journalist’s starting salary – projecting to make $107,040 one year after graduating while the average salary is actually $44,800." usatoday.com/story/money/pe…
"Less than half of the respondents (48%) felt that college is worth the cost. 43% of respondents reported having over $30,000 in student debt, including almost 1 in 3 who will graduate with $50,000 or more in debt." usatoday.com/story/money/pe…
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Mar 10
After spending the week at the #SXSWEDU conference I have some thoughts on what we’re doing with traditional academic conferences and what we could do to make them better.

A rambling thread while I’m at the bar after 8 hours of sessions🧵
FWIW to start, in my experience @improvingpsych has it most right.

They’re interactive, engaged, and have varied session formats.

But they are the outlier, not the norm.
In The Times Before The Internet™️ academic conferences served to expose people to new research results — useful!

But now? Academic conference sessions are only opportunities to add lines to a CV.

Why engage in a session when I can read the research you already posted online?
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Feb 27
Last week I gave my first invited, hour long talk at a conference and had a strange new experience.

I wasn’t nervous before. No increase in heart rate. Just calm energy.

And it was the best talk I’ve given.

Not sure when the transition occurred, but I have some thoughts. 1/
In grad school we practice tons of research presentations at conferences and in classes. But despite all those presentations I still got nervous before every talk.

Looking back, I realized that a limitation of this practice was that it’s just one form of presentation. 2/
Practice of course matters, but more important are consistency and varied types of practice.

This variability is key and means that practicing only research tasks isn’t the most effective way to make you a better presenter. 3/
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Feb 17
Great question! What’s going on behind the scenes? I’ve been on the board of an academic society for 5+ years and hosted an online conference last year for 600 attendees.

Some insights as to what *might* be going on🧵
1. I presume most societies are paying a LOT for fancy conference app licensing fees, like Whova for instance. Especially with big conferences 1000+ people, this can get expensive. You’re also paying for labor of those that are monitoring for tech issues, customization, etc.
BUT there are amazing start-ups out there too! @HumBehEvoSoc used @ohyayco last year and we had an amazing experience and our members loved it.
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