by Brian Waters | Jan 25, 2020 | Professional Development
What is the meaning of marketing as it applies to science? When I was a graduate student and even as a postdoc, I was in science for the purity of discovery and the building of knowledge. When I thought about marketing, what I thought was advertising and some...
by Brian Waters | Jan 21, 2020 | Professional Development
If you are in graduate school or your postdoc, you should be building your CV, or Curriculum Vitae. You will use it to apply for awards, scholarships, and academic jobs. However, if you are going to apply to non-academic jobs, using your academic CV could be a big...
by Brian Waters | Dec 2, 2019 | Professional Development, Publishing
There’s a term it’s in the news a lot these days, quid pro quo. This phrase is in Latin, and it roughly translates to: if you do me a favor, I will do you a favor. I saw a post on LinkedIn the other day where a person was complaining about scientists who...
by Brian Waters | Nov 7, 2019 | Professional Development, Publishing
I came across an interesting article in The Scientist, an interview of Rebeccah Lijek, a molecular biologist at Mount Holyoke College (link). The article was based on her recent co-authored paper in eLIFE, called “Research Culture: Co-reviewing and ghostwriting by...
