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Poster learning by taking apart another poster
A poster should be a kind of tease to your research, an appetizer, not the whole meal. After all, people looking at posters do not want to spend more than about 4 minutes looking at your work. So pick something exciting about your work and explain it as briefly as you can. If you have published it or have a website, you can add a QR code as a link to the more detailed work. My favorite way toā¦
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Recommendation letters for awards: can you get help from the person?
Recommendation letters are a large part of nominations for awards from academic societies. I write several of them each year. Often these awards allow for self-nomination. To me this is a cue that you can get help with the letter from the person you are nominating. After all, they should know their own strengths well, though they may not fully appreciate what sets them apart from others. So if Iā¦
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What should a full professor do?
My daughter and her friend and colleague Kimberly just became full professors and Kim asked me what advice I had for them at this new stage in their careers as professors. It was a general question since they are sociologists and Iām a biologist. I gave them the first answer that occurred to me and then thought about it and expanded on my answer. First, figure out what is important to you andā¦
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Referee finding: a role for AI?
I had to ask ten people just to find two willing to review a paper I serve as editor for. I wanted three people but decided to go with two. Everyone knows how hard it is these days to get referees. Here are some thoughts on the problem and how judicious use of AI can help. The problem is we all think of the same people, the top people in the field. It is as if I wrote a piece on Christianity andā¦
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Recommendation letters for colleagues: a role for AI?
Every promotion requires a stack of recommendation letters. I get asked all the time to write letters for colleagues at other universities who are up for tenure or for promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor. These requests usually give me a month or more of lead time and send me a packet of information, a curriculum vita, a statement from the candidate as to what their research isā¦
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Recommendation letters: be careful about bias
Friends in the business world tell me that they do not write letters of recommendation any more. The most they will do is verify that a person worked in their company and give the dates. The reasons for this are largely legal, I believe. But one might argue that letters of recommendation are generally fraught with bias and can do more harm than good. Nevertheless, it is part of what we teachersā¦
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Recommendation letters for people you know well
The easiest thing is to write a recommendation letter for someone you know well. In an academic setting this is likely to be someone in your lab, an undergraduate applying to graduate school or medical school, a grad student applying for a postdoc, a postdoc applying for a faculty position. Letters are also needed for scholarships, fellowships, and some kinds of grants. Since you know the personā¦
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Recommendation letters: important shortcuts
If Iām not careful I could spend more than an hour a week writing letters of recommendation. There are generally three very different kinds of letters I write: letters for undergraduates who took a course or two from me, students at all levels (undergrad, grad, and postdoc) who worked in my lab, and colleagues whom I might know but the letter will be based mostly on their research. This is theā¦
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Just in time learning advantages
Do you feel vaguely guilty when you get emails from your institution exhorting you to attend learning sessions for some new software? Right now Iām getting them often. They want me to learn new advising software called Student Sunrise. I wonāt do it for very good reasons. I suppose they are asking now because we are currently advising using the old system called WebFac. But we wonāt use the newā¦
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Four exciting postdocs in Ecology and Evolution at Washington University in St. Louis!
Looking for a postdoc? We have plenty!
Sometimes it isnāt just the project that attracts a postdo to a lab but it is the community. It isnāt easy to tell what that community is like sometimes, so here we share. Four of us are looking for postdocs in EEB at Wash U! We already have quite a few postdocs that this new cohort will be joining. It should be fun. Find what you love from the labs of Michael Landis, Rachel Penczykowski, Lizā¦
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Postdoctoral positions available in our lab!
The postdoc can be an amazing period in your career if you are given the flexibility to pursue your own ideas under the broader envelope of what your host has funded. You want a postdoc in a collegial lab that supports you well in this all-important time between grad school and your own lab, whether it be in academia or industry. It is important to choose the subject matter of your postdocā¦
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How can you go wrong with a gap year?
Wondering about the pros and cons of stepping off the career ladder after graduating? This may help.
There are no years off from life, but maybe a break in a relentless path to a career is a good idea. It depends on what you want to get out of it. You might have been away from home too long and want to go back and watch your younger siblings shine in high school athletics. You might have a family member that needs a little care from you. You might want to learn your family recipes moreā¦
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Advising undergraduates: encourage them to get to know themselves
What do you really want to get out of a professor that does not know you at all but does know the curriculum, in my case, for the biology major and various specialties therein? Of course you want to be sure you are fulfilling the requirements. But that is technical and easy. We professors have so much more to offer. After all, we have figured out how to shine at a career we love. What I want forā¦
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Did you join Mastodon yet?
Did you join MastodonĀ yet?
I recently joined <a href="http://<a rel="me" href="https://ecoevo.social/@joanstrassmann">MastodonMastodon and there is this thing called verification and this is me doing it.
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Is there a book you want to write?
Did you ever think of writing a book?
Writing a book is overwhelming to contemplate and enormously satisfying to complete. How did I find the time? First, it was a book I have been wanting to write for more than 20 years, so the time it took was a pleasure, mostly. I decided that I was writing a book as a side project and that my students should always come first. I use a productivity app sometimes. On it I put the book for an hourā¦
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What I learned from reading my book aloud
What I learned from reading my bookĀ aloud
There is a difference between written and spoken language that is hard to define. I think there is less of a difference in English than in some languages, but it still exists. To make your writing clear, I think that the closer you can come to spoken English with your written English the better. Your writing will sound fresher, more engaging. It will be clearer, easier to follow. It will be moreā¦
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Retraction with honor
On July 2, 2022, we retracted a paper we published last year in Evolution https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.14551. The reason I wanted to write this post is to explain what happened and how we dealt with it and thereby to help normalize honest retractions which should probably be more common. Iāll give a little detail on the experiment and then focus on the human side. Theā¦
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