MCDuncanLab · @MCDuncanLab
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@Zdbennett

Hey Team Academia,

What resources would you share with Zach as he writes his first letters of recommendation?

#graduateadmissions #graduateeducation #pilife #academia #academicchatter

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MCDuncanLab · @MCDuncanLab
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Interesting resource available now: a collection of stories around science career transitions, conveyed through the journeys of a diverse set of science professionals in India. These career stories capture their unique journeys, including turning points along their career transitions, or their 'IRIWI: I Realized I Wasn’t Interested' moments.

indiabioscience.org/indiabiore

#graduateeducation #sciencecareers #alternativecareers

Last updated 1 year ago

MCDuncanLab · @MCDuncanLab
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@MarkHanson

Wow! I never thought about things this way. The idea is that for some activities, you want to minimize the worst (eg FDA tries to prevent food poisoning), and some activities, you want to maximize the best (eg art, science). The former is a weak-link and the latter a strong-link problem.

I'm debating whether education is a strong-link or weak-link problem. I can see arguments either way, also are Ug/Grad opposite🤔.

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#graduateeducation #academicchatter #academia

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katinalynn · @katinalynn
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Really thoughtful piece by Stacy Hartman and Bianca Williams on the future of doctoral education, changes in the funding landscape, and the public good: lareviewofbooks.org/article/th

#graduateeducation #highered #publicgood

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katinalynn · @katinalynn
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Brandon has been posting some fantastic blog posts that demystify some of the tacit elements of higher ed and DH. Highly useful for students and for faculty/staff who support them: walshbr.com/blog/questions-to-

#digitalhumanities #graduateeducation

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Javier Díaz-Nido · @Javier_DN
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Putting the Ph back into the PhD – across disciplines & cultures

Join us for our annual Katharine E. Welsh Symposium on R3eforming Graduate Science Education – worldwide!
Learn from the experiences of practitioners from the US and around the globe. Explore innovative approaches to advanced training in the 3R’s, Rigor, Reproducibility and Responsibility, in graduate science programs across the disciplines!

r3isenetwork.org/upcoming-even

#3R #Responsability #reproducibility #rigor #biomedicine #science #research #university #graduateeducation #DoctoralEducation #PhDEducation #phd

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MCDuncanLab · @MCDuncanLab
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I'm super excited to receive funds from the Rackham graduate school to support my department's activities aimed to improve student peer mentoring and community.

We pair incoming students with a senior peer mentor. We provide funds for them to go out for coffee a couple of times a semester, and for all of the first years and their mentors to attend 'social circles' informal dinners to talk about rotations and other first-year topics.

#mentoring #graduateeducation

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MCDuncanLab · @MCDuncanLab
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So ppl are saying departments *can't* give tax advice because of liability.

I'm sorry but it's not tax advice if, when you send the notice of award to fellowship awardees, you say:

"Most fellowships are subject to income tax. UofX does not withhold income taxes on fellowships. Please consult a tax professional before the end of this *calendar* year to ensure you have made suitable adjustments to your other withholdings or estimated taxes."

#taxes #graduateeducation #lablife

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Javier Díaz-Nido · @Javier_DN
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katinalynn · @katinalynn
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My first consulting client with Inkcap was the Graduate School at Syracuse University. The project involved building a website to house resources for innovative dissertations (with a ready-to-use rubric, examples, interviews, best practices, and more. It has over half a million views so far 🤯

nextgendiss.hcommons.org/

#highereducation #graduateeducation

Last updated 2 years ago

MCDuncanLab · @MCDuncanLab
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While I’m waiting for some media to warm up, I’m going to repost a thread I originally posted elsewhere about an activity I developed for our incoming graduate students this year.

After hearing a lot about the hidden curriculum, I wanted to provide some mechanism to ‘onboard’ our incoming students on topics related to success in graduate school that belong to the hidden curriculum. Long thread.

#graduateeducation #hiddencurriculum #mentorship

Last updated 2 years ago

Peter V. Tretter ✅ 🇨🇦 · @ap236
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Federal grants for master's, PhD students unchanged since 2003, leaving many 'below the poverty line' | CBC News bit.ly/3Wpfe2u @cdnpoli

#science #mastersdegree #doctorate #graduateeducation #cdnpoli

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Laboratory of Kristen Kroll · @kkroll
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A celebration of our incoming class of Post-Baccalaureate Scholars in Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine--an enthusiastic group of budding scientists learning the skills they will need for the next step of their careers in graduate or medical school. It has been a pleasure getting to know and work with them!

#graduateeducation #medicine #Regenerative #devbiol #devbio

Last updated 2 years ago

Dylan Shropshire · @ShropshireJD
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Interested in getting a in ? check out !

We offer concentrations in and biology, , and , and . We have a wonderful diverse group of scientists doing exciting and well-respected research. The department takes very seriously!

Apps are due Jan 1st. I'm happy to answer any questions about the program!

Boosts appreciated!

, @jobsecoevo

#joboffer #graduateeducation #neuroscience #behavior #evolution #biochemistry #molecular #cell #LehighUniversity #biology #phd

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Dylan Shropshire · @ShropshireJD
192 followers · 62 posts · Server fediscience.org

Interested in getting a in ? check out !

We offer concentrations in and biology, , and , and . We have a wonderful diverse group of scientists doing exciting and well-respected research. The department takes very seriously!

Apps are due Jan 1st. I'm happy to answer any questions about the program!

Boosts appreciated!

, @joboffersecoevo

#joboffer #graduateeducation #neuroscience #behavior #evolution #biochemistry #molecular #cell #LehighUniversity #biology #phd

Last updated 2 years ago

Laboratory of Kristen Kroll · @kkroll
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Jeff Dean (the Biochemist) · @jeffdean
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