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Category Archives: career
Five years as a new PI
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
Where credit is due
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
Posted in bioinformatics, career, community, data archiving, genomics, science publishing
Tagged authorship, co-author, public database
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Towards unrestricted use of public genomic data
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
Posted in career, community, data archiving, genomics, science publishing
Tagged career, genomics, open science
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A Highlight of Molecular Ecology outside of Academia
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
Microbiomes of a small conference
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
Posted in blogging, career, community, conferences, evolution, genomics
Tagged conference, ecological genomics, Evolution, genomics, metagenomics, microbiome, social media
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Not my problem
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
500 Queer Scientists
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
Posted in Action Item, career, community, howto, politics
Tagged academia, career, conduct, Homo sapiens, Knowing what I know now, society
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We can make academia more family friendly
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
Posted in blogging, career, community, conferences, politics, primates, United States
Tagged academia, conferences, family, Homo sapiens, parenting
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#NewPI chat: Third (or maybe fourth) time’s the charm edition
Following up on last fall’s group-chat discussion of life as a new(is) professor, three Molecular Ecologist contributors who are in our first years on faculty recently reconvened on the TME Slack channel to talk about that #NewPI life for an … Continue reading
How Molecular Ecologists Work: Sean Hoban on Google Docs and time-per-task calculations
Welcome to “How Molecular Ecologists Work”, the interview series that asks scientists how they get stuff done. In the final installment of this second season of interviews, we welcome Dr. Sean Hoban from The Morton Arboretum. Location: The Morton Arboretum, a botanical … Continue reading