Advice for Every Task & Career Stage

Issue 164: Advice on giving great talks, writing efficiently, goal setting, saying “no”, managing conflict, and mentoring, as well as specific career advice for academics

Have you ever wondered how academics like us manage to put together invited talks, publish papers, or secure funding? This week, we put together advice that should be helpful for a broad audience on giving great presentations, writing efficiently, goal setting, saying “no”, managing conflict, and mentoring, as well as specific advice for each academic career stage including applying to graduate school, negotiating a job offer, and running a lab.

Whether you are just starting to consider graduate school or preparing your tenure materials, this is a roadmap for success. Academia is a unique field that requires many different hats and lots of unspoken knowledge–which is often described as the “hidden curriculum”. In an effort to demystify the Ivory Tower, Jay and some other colleagues wrote a series of columns for Science Magazine. In this week’s newsletter, we summarize each one and provide links to the short articles so you can find advice you need for whatever challenge you face!

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