Just finished a 2 hour workshop for #sysmus20 titled "Turning Your Values into Value" aka a crash course in getting non-academic work for grad students in #musicscience I'll try to summarise what I said (all my opinions) in case anyone else is interested in the workshop! TLDR Most grad students won't work in academia, but that's OK and I really wanted to brand of the workshop not to be this doomsday fear inducing stuff I see on my twitter feed every day. Of course the competition is stiff, but I just can't stand more doomsdaying.

Looks like this #musicscience pre-print showing 0 effect between musical training and cognitive abilities has been accepted at Memory and Cognition and is getting some press.

psyarxiv.com/7s8wr/

IMO moments like this are a great chance to just remind people that you don't need the backing of Science™ to justify what you find meaningful. In a lot of ways, it's liberating to nullify this relationship to help focus conversations about #music to other reasons like how it's a great way to explore the many ways to be human, it's a way to learn

A few months ago I wrote a very long blog for @CommitteeSysmus on advice that I wish I would have heard when I was a graduate student about getting a non-academic job.

sites.google.com/view/sysmus/bl…

I'll thread the major points below because it's a long one (4K words) There are a lot of resources on how to keep going on in academia, but as we all know, we can't all immediately go from PhD to more academia (AND this was all originally written pre-COVID) but there's not a lot of good resources to help people prepare for that as a student.