@Zdbennett

Hey Team Academia,

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

#AcademicChatter #Academia #PiLife #GraduateEducation #GraduateAdmissions

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.

https://indiabioscience.org/indiabioreads/iriwi-i-realized-i-wasnt-interested

#AlternativeCareers #ScienceCareers #GraduateEducation

@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🤔.

#academia #AcademicChatter #GraduateEducation.

Really thoughtful piece by Stacy Hartman and Bianca Williams on the future of doctoral education, changes in the funding landscape, and the public good: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-future-of-doctoral-education-four-provocations-for-a-more-just-and-sustainable-academy/

#graduateEducation #higherEd #publicGood

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: https://walshbr.com/blog/questions-to-ask-when-applying/

#digitalHumanities #graduateEducation

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!

#PhD #PhDEducation #DoctoralEducation #GraduateEducation #University #Research #Science #Biomedicine #Rigor #Reproducibility #Responsability #3R

https://r3isenetwork.org/upcoming-event/

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.

#GraduateEducation #Mentoring

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."

#LabLife #GraduateEducation #Taxes

Influential Writing and Leading Change

BY GUNDULA BOSCH, PHD

#DoctoralEducation #PhDEducation #GraduateEducation #PhD #Science #STEM #Biomedicine #Neuroscience

https://neuronline.sfn.org/outreach/influential-writing-and-leading-change

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 🤯

https://nextgendiss.hcommons.org/

#higherEducation #graduateEducation

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. #Mentorship #HiddenCurriculum #GraduateEducation

Federal grants for master's, PhD students unchanged since 2003, leaving many 'below the poverty line' | CBC News https://bit.ly/3Wpfe2u #Science #MastersDegree #Doctorate #GraduateEducation #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

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! #Devbio #Devbiol #Regenerative #Medicine #graduateeducation

Interested in getting a #PhD in #biology? check out #LehighUniversity!

We offer concentrations in #cell and #molecular biology, #biochemistry, #evolution and #behavior, and #neuroscience. We have a wonderful diverse group of scientists doing exciting and well-respected research. The department takes #GraduateEducation very seriously!

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

Boosts appreciated!

#JobOffer, @jobsecoevo

Interested in getting a #PhD in #biology? check out #LehighUniversity!

We offer concentrations in #cell and #molecular biology, #biochemistry, #evolution and #behavior, and #neuroscience. We have a wonderful diverse group of scientists doing exciting and well-respected research. The department takes #GraduateEducation very seriously!

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

Boosts appreciated!

#JobOffer, @joboffersecoevo

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Placing a list of hashtags of interest in your profile keeps them conveniently located for future use, but they won't return your profile to someone else's search using those same terms. If you want people to find you through your common interests, then you will need to place that hashing list inside a post, like so.

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