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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 isn’t just the project that attracts a postdo to a lab but it is the community. It isn’t 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, Liz…
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Shout-out to PhD Guru Andy Stapelton #DrAndyStapelton Don't know this man, but (as a fellow PhD) his PhD advise, Uni life hacks, and Academic Survival guides are accurate, relevant, and bullseye.🥸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺💡👇🏻 https://youtu.be/5sSeLa2DNEU #AcademicLife #PhDGuru #grants #Postdocs #PhDs https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm-phVJLSwS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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What is LaTeX? I’m working so hard on this like… LAnce/Toto/alEX? LANdo/pierre gasly number TEn/maX?
Oh God nooooo LaTeX is a scientific typesetting software, when I said niche I meant niche 😭😭
This is a Max/Daniel fic that I occasionally add to where they're both in academia... People take LaTeX really seriously, like it's cool when you start using it for stuff and then it's so flexible and nice looking that some people use it for everything, like I've received wedding invitations written using TeX (which was so cute)
You can set templates and most people I know use the same template for most things, like I still use the article template I got from someone my first year of undergrad, and the presentation template a girl from the year above me gave me during my masters etc etc
In my au, Daniel is a postdoc in the lab where Max does his undergrad capstone thesis, so they're working together a lot and they really click, like they immediately get on and really enjoy working together. It's a 10 week thing so they get quite close and Max is very obviously into Daniel and Daniel's not technically his Boss™ but he is senior and has like soft power over Max and it would be bad to date an undergrad no matter how weirdly obsessed he is with Max. BUT by the time Daniel realises all of this, they've been flirting for like 2 months and he's accidentally an asshole about it because he just switches it off and flips a switch and starts acting different around Max and it's disorienting and accidentally gaslighting and unpleasant for Max
Max has to write up a dissertation and at the start of this Daniel had shared his own template with Max, so he uses this even though he feels weird now but it reminds him of when it was better
ANYWAY Max is a really good researcher obviously and applies to a PhD in this lab, let's call it the Horner Lab, and gets funding and is excited to start and get to work with Daniel again and maybe they can get back to where they were and it can be good again and he can ask Daniel out now BUT oh no Daniel has been courted away and accepted a position in another university that seems to have a better grant, lets call it the Renault lab
Max is really disappointed at this but he did like the work too so he tries to put it out of his mind, works hard, and generally excels... He definitely bumps into Daniel at a few conferences and they slip back into their same rapport and Max loves those weeks, always tries to drop hints to Horner to send his work to conferences that might overlap with Daniel's topic... They get drunk and kiss one time in the hotel after the conference dinner but Daniel isn't in a great place, has accepted an assistant prof job in a department that he's really not clicking in and doesn't think they'll keep him on past his current contract even though it's tenure track and his work is good, let's call them, um, McLaren. And Max is doing SO WELL, like his research niche has exploded and he's been right at the cusp of some really cutting edge stuff, it's so impressive, and they only ever see each other at these events and Max is always winning poster prizes and talk awards, and Daniel doesn't feel like he can deal with this right now
Max, of course, is using Daniel's template to make every presentation and to draft every paper, and it makes him feel warm every time he creates a new file by making a new copy of the template file called "from_daniel.tex". He still has the original email Daniel sent him with the template, he emails it to his personal email just in case his institutional email ever gets deactivated. He's a bit sick of Daniel going hot and cold on him but he doesn't know why or how to fix it (Max is perhaps a bit blind to other people's career worries, especially because Daniel is still doing good work so it's not obvious from the outside what's going on). Mainly he thinks that if they got to spend more than two weeks a year together and weren't constantly surrounded by their coworkers, they might have a chance to properly talk.
Fast forward a few years, Max is a postdoc now still at the same university (bro go get some experience elsewhere, I know I know but this is for the narrative!) and Daniel comes BACK! He gets hired to fill in for someone really last minute and takes the role and it's tenure track and he's really excited about it but also really nervous about working around Max again... Especially because his last job went so badly for interpersonal reasons, not competency, so he's scared that he fucked things up with Max who is obviously the one in this lab with the clout, so if he acts cold to Daniel the rest will too. And Max is a bit absent for the first while, he also doesn't know how to act, from his perspective they kissed and Daniel ghosted him and it reminds him of their first time around working together, BUT Max fundamentally just likes Daniel so one time Daniel catches him hiding away somewhere making a presentation, and notices Max is using his template still from all those years ago, and he tries to break the ice by asking about it but Max is so tired he just straight up admits to it. They actually talk and realize that they're on the same page and they're both scared for different reasons but they both want the same thing and then they kiss about it and maybe have sex in the bathroom about it, who knows, they're academics, they're both working late
THEN they co-author a paper together and it's a brilliant piece of work that starts a partnership that they keep up forever and they get tenure track positions together at a different university and they write their wedding invitations in LaTeX using Daniel's template and they live happily ever after
#Em this is so far from your guesses lol#My thumbs hurt from typing but this is my comfort au#In my head the lore is vast#I love you postdoc Daniel I love you blunt arrogant PhD Max#you KNOW Z* B* is p-hacking#My fic#Maxiel#F1 rpf#For those who block#Ask
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You’ve heard of the browser wars....
I just recently made a long-overdue defection in the search engine wars, and I’m entirely pleased with it.
You know how shitty Google results are when you need some fairly niche information that won’t be in a Wikipedia article, mainstream news, or some shitty celebrity gossip outlet, these days?
DuckDuckGo has cleared my skin, watered my crops, etc. I was kind of ambiently glad it existed for a long time, but was like “well, privacy good, but my infosec practices are already sketchy at best, and google’s been doing this for a long-ass time; they’re probably better at it, so why bother.” But no, my friends, google is better at something but these days that something is delivering clickbait to your fucking eyeballs.
I was frustrated with a very specific science question the other day and getting absolutely fucking nowhere with google, swapped over to duckduckgo on a curious whim, and it... didn’t get me exactly what I needed immediately, but it did give MUCH more relevant search results than google did. And that’s, well, because enshittification. Maybe someday, duckduckgo will also live to see itself become the villain, but for right now, it’s fucking useful, and it is now my default search engine on every device I use (and also every work computer i have reason to touch).
#the browser wars#google#duckduckgo#(the science question was not the sort that web of science and whatnot were useful about)#(it was the sort of mundane detail shit you learn from the venerable postdoc two labs over if you're lucky)#(but that never makes its way into any widely-read literature on How To Do The Thing)#(so what I WANTED was the perfect stack overflow post)#(i did not get that but i got much more useful guides from DDG)
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Work on a scientific article
What it actuallly entails:
Come up with an idea, define an interesting problem
Do thorough literature research. Maybe similar stuff was already done. Define the knowledge gap well.
Plan in detail, how we can solve the problem, design experiments
Reach out to potential collaborators, agree with them on a plan
Buy necessary equipment, chemicals
Do pilot experiment, optimize the conditions to get reliable data
Perform experiments, calculations, make everything multiple times so it's reliable
Analyze the data
Urge collaborators to deliver their parts
Coordinate your progress with the collaborators
Manage the collaborations, organize meetings
Be diplomatic, you don't want to make enemies in academia
Agree with direct colleagues, who worked on it, what will be the message of the article. Will it be a long story and we need to add some more data? Or will it be short and right to the point and we write a short "letter"?
Do literature research again. Maybe new stuff appeared, and for sure your data must be confronted and discussed with already known facts.
Write the first draft of the article
Send it around for feedback, first only to direct colleagues from your lab
Incorporate the feedback, maybe do more experiments and more analysis
Rewrite the manuscript
Send it around the second, third, fourth, fifth... time
Incorporate the feedback
Send the manuscript to all collaborators.
Wait for the feedback, urge everyone to give it, maybe you don't have all data from all the collaborators yet
Incorporate feedback
Prepare the manuscript for journal submission
Get approval from all co-authors
Submit the manuscript
Wait for editor response, hopefully they send it to reviewers. If not, you need to rewrite a bit the article to adhere to the new journal's format and send somewhere else.
Get reviewers' reports, deal with them, reply truthfully, make effort to explain everything even if you know that the reviewer's suggestion is just impossible or irrelevant. Be diplomatic.
Maybe you need to do an additional experiment, analysis, or rewrite a major part fo the manuscript. This can take months.
Submit revised manuscript with all the changes
Wait for editor's nad reviewers' comments in the second round. You can get many rounds of review and still get rejected.
Finally get a "Congratulations, your manuscript has been accepted for publication"
Pop a shampagne! You deserve it!
What part of this do you usually do in different career stages:
BSc. and MSc. students: Perform experiments and analyze data
PhD students: Do all the experimental and analysis parts, write the manuscript, discuss with their supervisor and direct colleagues, incorporate feedback. But does not have to come up with their own idea and manage collaborations and diplomacy.
Postdocs: Do literally everything on the list
Group leader/Professor: Do the thinking and managing parts, help with writing and feedback, provide discussions and insight. Do not perform actual experiments and analysis.
Being a postdoc is the transformation between the student and the group leader.
As such, we just have to do all these tasks. It's stressful. It's challenging. It's definitely not boring. I am taking every opportunity to get a student, who can help with the experimental repetitions so I have time for all the other stuff.
#science#women in science#research#postdoc#group leader#academia#phd student#PhD#manuscript#article#publishing#scientific publication#overload#overworked#tasks#to do list#insights#biophysics#physics#biology#stem#original content
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Stavo pensando che è davvero lungo finire il proprio percorso di studi a trent'anni ma poi mi sono ricordata che l'aspettativa di vita si aggira sui novant'anni quindi direi che altri sessant'anni di vita dopo il percorso accademico sono tantissimi comunque. Perché ci mettono tutta questa pressione per entrare nel mondo del lavoro??
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had the delusion that a friend was into me (that I am slightly into too) but realised today that he is not huehuehue well ok
#personal#i am very bad at reading people like that#but the person is just like that interacting with friends and now i just feel like an idiot#huehue#to be deleted#he is moving to a different country in less than 2 months anywyas for a postdoc so it is like pointless anyway#ghhh
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For your consideration: the Professors Choi™️ in college vs now 🥵
(Idk if they actually knew each other in college I'm just assuming they did lmao)
GIRLLLLLLLLL
im fucking sitting here at my desk blushing sooo HAWRDDDD I WANNA WALK INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC DMKDKSKSKwjkwkw!!!!! this is SO PERFECT 😭😭😭
#i just need to ask like do u care about my sanity ☹️🫤 LMAO#they def knew of each other in their ‘younger’ yrs but didn’t get super close till i’d say their late grad & early postdoc yrs!#let’s just say that HAHAHA cause lowkey#yunho was a big part of his earlier life before shit hit the roof#ummmm imma need a moodboard of all of the professors involved in this fic lmfao#hwaslayer: secrets#binniewalrus 🖤
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Io procrastino le cose perché già lo so che saranno un inferno. Oggi ho finalmente fatto la schedule di tutti gli esperimenti che dovrò fare e mortacci mia dovevo procrastinare decisamente meno.
Per ripicca sono sul balcone a perdere altro tempo fino a pranzo eheh
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and also the concept page for my vash podcaster au :)
#trigun#vash the stampede#nicholas d. wolfwood#scrib: linkings#eventually i would love to write something on this#<- he has a google doc written out for different scenes and arcs#basically the end cards of trigun 98 made me dream up a contemporary au where vash is the host of a late night radio show#i have brainstormed what each of the trigang would wear in this au but its so far: postdoc vash. masters student+paralegal meryl.#coffee worker post bachlors ww. paralegal + social worker milly#also this is an au meryl has a rock following under derringer meryl and she and vash duo'd music for a time#and everyone is trans. smile.
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The University of Amsterdam, Netherlands is seeking online applications for various Postdoctoral Positions at their different Departments.
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academic tasks sorted by difficulty (least to most hard):
editing a chapter/article/paper
drafting an outline for a chapter/article/paper
giving a conference presentation
writing a chapter/article/paper
developing a theoretical framework
writing a conference presentation
making the powerpoint for a conference presentation
opening the doc with peer review comments
reading the peer review comments
doing anything about the peer review comments
#welcome to academia#postdoc life#obviously this is not considering things like classes/readings/etc.#guess what i'm doing today :) :) :)
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After much suffering, I can finally say I'm pretty fucking stupid for someone with a PhD.
#phd life#physics#science girlie#woman in stem#finally phDone#i feel like the biggest imposter but that won't stop me getting a postdoc salary
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Also PhD and PD periods are super hard on one's mental and physical capacities. There is huge instability. You're constantly expected to fight for having a funding in order to do your job but also live. That is insane. That is an inhumane system to continue. Nobody can be a genius under that kind of pressure. There is a reason of brain drain from academia.
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Feeling like a pro in Atomic Force Microscopy
...to be honest I probably should really tell myself that at this point I really am the professional in this method. After 4 years of working with 2 different atomic force microscopes, now I started with a 3rd one, again a new type from a different company.
Only after 2 hours of training on the new machine, I could observe membranes of resistant bacteria all by myself. The membranes are the yellow pancakes sitting flat on the dark support. They are less than 8 nm high (0.000000008 m), as is visible in the blue and red profile lines. So it's super tricky to actually see them. Atomic force microscope touches the surface of my membranes and surrounding support with a tiny tip like with a finger and reconstructs the surface topology. On top of the small size, the cellular membranes are super soft so also the touching finger must be super soft to see them without damaging them.
#science#women in science#research#postdoc#stem#original content#bacteria#antimicrobial#antibiotics#cool science#feeling like a pro#professional#love it#love my job#proud
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