For junior academics, networking at conferences is both a great opportunity and a terrifying prospect! They offer unparalleled chances to enhance and develop your career, but one false move and you could be doomed for all eternity! Well, not quite, but there are still certain unwritten rules that might help you out a little bit. […]
Last week was the biggest, badassest, and scienceyist week of the year, as around 1000 vertebrate palaeontologists took Dallas by storm. The Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology showcases the latest research from the global community, and is a chance for us to get together and dance our socks off too (not safe […]
Recently, The Winnower partnered with the ARCS (Advancing Research Communication and Scholarship) to host a competition to showcase the rewards of being open. This was designed to enhance an already overwhelming case for practising open science, by capturing individual success stories. There were many solid entries, and you can find each one published here via The […]
Recently, Nature Jobs were kind enough to ask me to give a talk at their annual Career Expo on the role of social media as a junior scientist. In particular, I discussed how it can be used to develop a personal scientific community and enhance the research experience. . Coverage of the talk is now […]