Category Archives: career

Conference catch-up: Seventh European Phycological Congress Zagreb, Croatia – algae and abominable life cycles!

Posted on 9 September, 2019 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

The first European Phycological Congress was held in Cologne, Germany in 1996. In the last 20-odd years, the meeting has been held every four years since then in Italy, Northern Ireland, Spain, Greece, and then in London in 2015 (see … Continue reading →

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The Research Coordinated Network for Evolution in Changing Seas (RCN-ECS)

Posted on 22 August, 2019 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

The Molecular Ecologist contributors Reid Brennan, Laetitia Wilkins, and I (Stacy Krueger-Hadfield) were invited to attend the Research Coordinated Network for Evolution in Changing Seas synthesis workshop at the Shoals Marine Lab this past week (19-23 August). Evolving Seas is … Continue reading →

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Five years as a new PI

Posted on 5 July, 2019 by Alex Twyford

Life as a new Principal Investigator (PI) in science is full of surprises. On any given day you’ll be dealing with the past (finishing off manuscripts from your postdoc), present (helping current students) and anticipating the future (working on the … Continue reading →

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Where credit is due

Posted on 27 February, 2019 by Laetitia Wilkins

I am trying to keep this short. You might remember my recent blog post on data sharing. I basically wanted to point out that data acquisition can be an art on its own. It can take months of planning, applying … Continue reading →

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Towards unrestricted use of public genomic data

Posted on 3 February, 2019 by Laetitia Wilkins

Last week, a friend sent me this policy forum article published in Science. Fifty co-authors, mostly tenured and from prestigious universities, some of them among my dearest idols, have written this piece to call for publicly available genome data. What … Continue reading →

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A Highlight of Molecular Ecology outside of Academia

Posted on 21 December, 2018 by Katharine Coykendall

I’ve recently made a career change. Actually, I’m not even sure whether to call it that, or the next step of a natural, if meandering progression of a scientist not on the academic career path. Even though I see more and … Continue reading →

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Microbiomes of a small conference

Posted on 23 September, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

The conference season is almost over. There are still a few gems out there worth attending before school starts. I just came back from the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Conference which took place at a UCLA resort in the mountains. … Continue reading →

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Not my problem

Posted on 30 August, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

Do American scientists know that doing research in America is a necessary step for many scientists from other parts of the world in order to get a permanent job in academia in their home country? Once in the US, these … Continue reading →

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500 Queer Scientists

Posted on 23 June, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

When I heard the first time about 500 Queer Scientists (@QueerSci, #QueerSTEM) I thought for myself ‘Why do we need to support STEM scientists based on their sexual orientation?’. This is how ignorant and clumsy I am. We got sensitized … Continue reading →

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We can make academia more family friendly

Posted on 8 April, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

This one tickled me for too long. It became a serious itch and I feel I have to say something. Two weeks ago, Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez and a Working Group of Mothers in Science published an opinion article in the … Continue reading →

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