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Want to better understand the growing anti-science and anti-public health movement? These books can help! 2025 promises to be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health. Thankfully, American physicians and scientists have published books that can h...

2025 will be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health

These books can help prepare us

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Here’s our starter pack for cohort based training for researchers and PhD students. Includes CDT’s, DTP’s, DTC’s and other cohort based networks and clusters.
Please suggest others to add.
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I have a PhD but don't meet all the requirements for this job. What do I do? - PostGradual: The PhD Careers Blog ‘How many of the criteria do I need to meet to be considered for a job?’ It’s a question that never goes away. It’s a particular bugbear for researchers looking to move into sectors beyond academia, a...

*NEW PhD CAREERS BLOG POST* What to do when you don't meet some of the job 'requirements?'

I've devised an approach inspired by baking (humour me...) to see how you can substitute out ‘ingredients’ (requirements) for others that do a similar job.

phd-careers.co.uk/2025/01/13/i...

Being a PI is just one of many things you can do with your PhD.

And doing *any* of those things is a successful outcome of your training and graduate school time.

The fact that a school or lab produces more of one of those things doesn't make it better.

🔋 Recharge Your Energy: Recovering from ADHD Burnout Feeling drained and overwhelmed? ADHD burnout can be challenging, but with the right strategies, you can regain your energy and thrive! Here’s how?

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Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years.

Gender gaps in academia: even in fields with gender parity (in number), women are 40% more likely to leave research within 20 years.
#GenderGap #WomenInScience #AcademicInequality #WomenInResearch #AcademicCareers
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Joanne Cohn and the email list that led to arXiv A strong sense of community led an early-career string theorist to share preprints in a scientifically competitive environment.

'Before there was arXiv, there was Joanne Cohn (...) She started an informal exchange of string theory manuscripts that eventually became the arXiv preprint server, which has since revolutionized the way scientists share ideas and announce findings.'

pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

This is an important history, and it ends on a note of optimism, but I remain convinced that the most important element of effective resistance to AI in scholarly literature is consistent and perceptive peer review.

Facebook to ditch fact-checking: what do researchers think? Meta’s planned shift away from third party fact-checking in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.

Meta’s planned shift away from third party fact-checking in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea...

Understanding neurodiversity can be complex. This annotated reading list, developed by a neurodiverse team, addresses key themes such as lived experience, anti-ableism, and inclusive research practices.
elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests

Yes it's important people understand a preprint hasn't been peer-reviewed. BUT it's also important to understand that what "peer-reviewed" means varies considerably, in some cases signifying nothing... www.science.org/content/arti...

Take a look at our new fellowship opportunity with Lancaster University, closing 19th January: daphnejackson.org/fellowship/l...

UK #AcademicSky: does anyone have experience of (academic) coaching, or a coach they'd recommend? I can access some funding for this but feeling a bit overwhelmed. Especially keen to hear from neurodivergent folk, or people who've had coaching for burnout and/or perfectionism.

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Btw - this is another case where my frequent point that not just IF but also PubMed/PMC are obstacles to innovation applies: if a journal does a novel form of post-hoc change that doesn't fit in PubMed's rigid framework, it's not registered (so is disincentivized)

NextGen Voices: 2025 and 2050, in haiku

#NextGenSci gave young scientists this prompt: Write a pair of haiku. In the first, describe academia or your field in 2025; in the second, describe your predictions for 2050.

Read a selection of the responses: scim.ag/3Wa7gw9

Climate and Health Award: Advancing climate mitigation solutions with health co-benefits in low- and middle-income countries - Grant Funding| Wellcome This funding call will generate a body of evidence on the health effects of climate change mitigation interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Looking for climate and health research funding?

We're funding teams to investigate how climate mitigation solutions affect health in low- and middle-income countries.

🗓️ Pre-applications due: 18 February 2025

Learn more ⤵️
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As an early-career researcher, I loved doing outreach. So I made it my career “My new path wasn’t as straightforward as the academic route,” this educator writes

Neuroscientist Catherine Croft shares her journey from research to science communication and education, finding purpose and impact beyond the lab.
#CareerChange #ScienceEducation @catlilly.bsky.social

www.science.org/content/arti...

Where Can I Publish My Global Health Blog Post or Op-Ed? This is a crowd-sourced list of blogs and media platforms that publish opinion pieces and commentaries

Looking for a way to practice your writing and shape your ideas before formalizing them into a paper?
Check out this resource on blog posts and op-eds in global health:
communities.springernature.com/posts/where-...

Coaching and Mentoring for Academic Development Learning through dialogue brings a powerful opportunity to navigate professional demands and meet the challenges of a turbulent world. Written for all who mento

Written for all who mentor or coach in universities, this book addresses a critical question: how can mentoring and coaching conversations be effective and accessible ways to support researcher and academic development?

#ResearchCulture #ResearcherDevelopment

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🪩 Happy #NewYear! 🪩
Calling all advocates who are passionate about the mission to #EndAcademicAbuse. Let's build out this list so we can all find each other! DM or comment to be added or suggest others.

@academic-chatter.bsky.social @academicsky.org @edusky.bsky.social

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A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...

“a well-organized, financed, politically motivated, and steadily globalizing campaign of disinformation & attacks against science that makes it difficult to mount an effective global response to the climate & pandemic threats”

@michaelemann.bsky.social & Hotez

skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all We analyse two centuries of scholarly work

Academic writing is evolving, but clarity is a growing challenge.

www.economist.com/science-and-...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Best Bluesky apps, projects, tools I've found A collection of cool apps and projects built on the AT Protocol: analytics tools, dashboards, and custom feed builders.

I keep finding cool 3rd-party apps and projects built for Bluesky, so I've started to collect them all here:

justinjackson.ca/best-bluesky...

Did I miss any?

I took a break from work to protect my health. This should be more accepted in academia Better support structures would “lead to a more inclusive, productive, and humane workplace for everyone,” this physician-scientist writes

"I began to see my time off not as a failure, but as a necessary pause." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/3PxSewJ

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

Science should save all, not just some Discussions around global equity and justice in science typically emphasize the lack of diversity in the editorial boards of scientific journals, inequities in authorship, “parachute research,” domina...

International #EpidemicPreparednessDay

There is no epidemic preparedness until we make sure Global South countries have access to lifesaving vaccines & medicines

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Community | eLife Community Voices · eLife Hear from researchers across the globe about what matters to them in relation to research culture.

Earlier this year we proudly launched the Community Voices podcast 🎉

Created eLife’s very own staff, we embark on inspiring conversations with scientists about their lives and passions. Catch up with the latest episodes 👇 #12DaysOfeLife
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