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Remarks on faculty job searches (as 'tis the season):
Chances are, as a faculty candidate you apply to several job ads.

Dozens. More.

You wait. You hope.

(quick thread)
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#PILife #PDLife #AcademicJobs
Some places will respond with a rejection pretty quickly. Form letter.

Sometimes hilariously addressed to Dear [Applicant Name3].

Are you just a number? At this stage, likely.

Others never get back to you. Or years (!) later.

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This is normal and as in any higher-level job with lots of competition.

The waiting, the rejections, and the no-responses are depressing. Discouraging. At times unhealthy.

"Does nobody care about my ideas? My science? Me?"

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As undergrad, I struggled immensely with this: reading and omg understanding papers.

Especially as non-native English speaker.

I did develop a system that helped me back then.

Bear with me it is pretty...mundane. 1/n

#reading #PhDLife #PDlife #undergradlife #papers #science
I printed each paper. And while reading I used a yellow, a green, and a pink highlighter.

When reading, I labeled every first mention of an abbreviation in green.

This helped me to find their meaning quickly again when deep into the text.

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In pink, I labeled key questions and take-home messages.

If done correctly, you can look at pink sentences alone and recap the whole paper.

Peo-rip: first and last sentences of paragraphs often are pink sentences.

Pro-tip 2: write papers that have pink sentences.

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Today, we officially welcomed (via Zoom) our latest postdoc to the lab: Robert Lalonde!

Excited to have Rob with us @CUAnschutz to decipher mesodermal cell fate control.

Current lab pic:
#zebrafish #PILife #PDLife #WFH #mosimannlabgoesvirtual Image
...and also, Jelena (still in Switzerland) got her lab notebook computer delivered for enhanced #WFH :).
(not shown, reactions to me testing out new microphone settings that caused more head/earache than improvement) #lofi #Zoomedout
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