#Postdoc

Three years ago, I started as a postdoc at @EPrinceton. Yesterday, I left New Jersey to start my new position in @CUEngineering at @CUBoulder. There are several important lessons I
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Yesterday I confronted a senior scientist with a terrible review he made for us, shamelessly pushing >20 self citations that were not even relevant. His defense: “sorry, it wasn’t me
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November is peak letter of recommendation writing season in academic science. Here are helpful tips before you click *submit* Length of these letters is also a signal:1/2 page - do
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PIs, I want to give you some advice about hiring #postdocs. (Mostly bc I see a lot of y’all here giving advice to grad students). A thread.If you want to
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Question:Anyone who wasn't sure if they wanted to be a PI when they were a postdoc and now is a PI? What was that decision-making process for you?I feel like
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Grad students! I want to give you a couple words of advice about finding postdoc positions. (Having just advertised a postdoc position, I am noticing some patterns, and perhaps not
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Can we talk about academic precarity and the committments we make in community-engaged research? #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdchat I'm about to enter the last year of a 3-year postdoc. I love
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A few thoughts about running a research lab in the time of COVID. Who are we? A lab of 7 scientists working on how muscle develops and regenerates. Our @NIH-funded
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The human rights NGO I work for could employ another 10 people tomorrow if some 'shovel-ready projects' money came our way. They could even be women. Gah! Now I'm fantasising
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The BEST thing you can do for your finances in #gradschool is:Pick a #PhD program that pays a decent #stipend!#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #PhDAdvice1/4 The MINIMUM #stipend in my book should be
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1/ Are we about to lose a whole generation of Canadian researchers? In the year of COVID, graduating PhDs are struggling to find pathways to continue their research & employment.
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The job market sucks, so I decided to start a thread in which I aim to share all PhD and postdoc positions in Political Science and Peace and Conflict research
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Continuing the #DoanTwitterTakeover - How did I find a postdoc @NYU_CSAAH @pophealthNYC during a pandemic? I started perusing positions in the early fall and accepted my position by December, about
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In labs right now are researchers working on innovations that can cure disease, end malnutrition, fix the climate crisis, connect the world.But scientific innovations don’t solve problems on their own.
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I am responding to this with care after initial frustration. I fully agree with HGF fellows and friends that today is a day to celebrate the accomplishments of the new
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Plenty of people have dunked on a variety of aspects of that moronic WSJ op-ed — the misogyny, the condescension, the anti-intellectualism. I’m here to complain the revisionist history. There’s
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