ecologist | non-native species dynamics in space and time | anthropogenic drivers | science-policy | CLA of IPBES IAS assessment | addicted to visualisation
May 30, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Tip for surviving #academia without a permanent position from someone with 18 years of experience:
**Focus on #proposal writing rather than paper writing**
Papers are important. Sure. But with proposals you'll get money. Important for yourself (salary) and for institutes. #ECR
Scientific papers are important to get some reputation, but own projects allow you to conduct your own research and to have some freedom to develop your own ideas. Papers will come more or less automatically.
May 6, 2022 • 32 tweets • 6 min read
How to survive the German (and other?) academic systems without having a permanent position?
A thread🧵.
(Disclaimer: This is about my personal experience as an ecologist. In other disciplines, it might be very different.)
#academia#IchbinHanna#ecology#academiclife
Background:
In Germany, it is difficult to get a permanent position in academia without the typical CV (eg reasonable publication list, period working abroad, being young) AND if you do not fit into the classical categories of research (eg botany). And bad luck, of course.
