Highlights of the Week – 14th August 2015
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Upcoming Events:
Sept 9
Get Powerful: Achieving influence, a MASS-AWIS Seminar
Click on link for more details
Sept 19
Postdoc Appreciation Week: Career Development Workshop with Sarah Cardozo Duncan
Details TBA
Sept 24
Postdoc Poster Competition on Boston campus
Details TBA
Take your PI to lunch – Boston campus
12PM Sackler 216A
Sept 25
Take your PI to lunch – Medford campus
12PM Aidekman Arts Center, Remis Sculpture Court
Posts on the Tufts PDA Blog:
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Career Articles & Resources:
- STEM Education: To build a scientist by Nature
- Lab budgets: a numbers game by Nature
- Finding career and Family balance in a naturally imbalanced situation by Pipette Gazette: UT Health Science Center Graduate School.
- Science communication: a new generation of communicators by Nature Careers
- Build STEM skills, but don’t neglect the humanities by Harvard Business Review
- Work less, Play More, Go to Sleep by Chronicle Vitae
- Why you should join a professional society by Aspiring Professionals Hub
- Why you need a 5 year plan by The Professor is In
- Avoiding “Drive by” Job Searches, an interview with the founder of Cheeky Scientist by NatureJobs Blog
- A guide to applying to jobs at small liberal arts colleges by Daily Nous
- Create a “Mastermind group” to help your career by Harvard Business Review
News/Opinion pieces/Other:
- Summer reads selected by Nature
- Podcast from Eppendorf 2015 Winner
- We must prepare PhD students for the complicated art of teaching from the Chronicle
- International Postdoc Survival Guide by the National Postdoc Association
- Membership in the National Postdoc Association – note: you are already an associate member by being a Tufts postdoc!
- Should PhD students be classified as employees? By The Guardian
- Interview with NIH director, Dr. Francis Collins on how science happens and scientific breakthroughs by our very own Sarah Dykstra for Science Sound Bites.
- Postdoc Symposium Toolkit by National Postdoc Association
- It’s time to take some of the secrecy out of science by the Slate/Retraction Watch
- The trouble with reproducibility in Science by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Science Writing and Communication Club
- Nominations for AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science
- Celebrating R & D Expenditures badly misses the point by PNAS
- The future of science will soon be upon us by Nature
- AAC&U’s moderate, strong voice on competency-based education and disruption by Inside Higher Ed
Events:
- Get Powerful: Achieving influence; Wednesday September 9th from the Association of Women in Science
