And let's not forget teach well but not so well we think you're not focused enough on research and do plenty of service so we know you're a team player but don't let it take time away from your research.
Yikes. When not even a <5 percentile is guaranteed funding, what are we even doing here?
Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful.
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I really think a lot of the old guard who's tenure came at a time when big team science was far rarer in psych just don't get it and have never stopped to question how things are done.
If you have a trusted faculty mentor/chair I think it is worth sharing with them how such a policy negatively impacts your research program including funding opportunities ($ talks). It might not change anything but at least get negative impacts on their radar.
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Campus e-newsletter having a normal one* ^.
BRB, got to attend this technology health check, wait for the power to come back on, then deal with this existential threat to the US rule of law and democracy.
*Within 2026 parameters
^ Actually a great looking talk
This makes me angry on your behalf - telling new faculty to do less of the productive collaborations that helped make them attractive hires in the first place is so wrong headed. As those of us who think differently start being the ones in charge we need to challenge and change these systems.
Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132
For now my advice would be to collaborate w/ those people who are not full (or close to it) since you won't be using them for letters anyway. Senior folks are great but many of my fav collaborators are people at my same career stage that I grew up with academically.
It would also help to stop requiring so many letters. Here they want at least 9 which seems excessive so ask for 20 which seems extremely excessive! (I apparently got 14 - which I'm grateful for but that's so much extra unnecessary service time)
That's too bad - I do always hesitate to give any advice on these things as the rules are so local. But I strongly suspect you are going to cruse through in any case!
Mine too! I agree the T&P system needs to stop penalizing this (not just in terms of external letters but so called "independence") and get on board with the benefits of team science.
As someone who also collaborates a lot -- Talk to your dept mentor for sure about this but I wouldn't let that constrain your collaborations. There will still be other "arms length" letter writers, and you may actually be able to include a few from collaborators (here you can).
Yes!
We should! Would be interesting to see if the same patterns show up across universities. We did look at this during the pandemic and there was a dramatic increase in symptoms then gradual return to baseline but now I'm wondering if we have another increase.
The thing that really gets me is I know for a fact some of the not-even-trying students need a C- (min to count toward a major here) in the course to graduate this spring. Some are going to be shocked that I won't "round up" their F to a C-.
Yeah, "slow starters" are one thing, but I still had one pop in last week after I did an midterm advising alert for her to say she "knew it had taken her awhile to get going this semester"- Honey, it is more than half way through, train left the station in January.
Something really seems to have shifted. Just state of the world leading to more depression and helplessness maybe? 🤔 Time to compare semesters in our college student internalizing psychopathology risk study I guess. . .
I guess I'm glad it isn't just me? I wish I knew what was up too! The other 90% of students seem really engaged maybe even more so than usual. There is just this set that seem to have just given up, and the few that have met w/ me expressed a lot of helplessness.
Anyone else have grade distributions like this this semester? Mean/median are B/B+ range as usual but I've never had this much skew - ~10% of the class is just not doing. . .much of anything. Not attending, doing assignments, studying for exams, responding to outreach. Unusual for our student pop.
Looking forward to expanding our small team a bit as the lab prepares for its 2nd year.
We will be hiring 2-3 more volunteer, in-person RAs for our team to start in the fall. Details and application info are at our website.
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Thrilled that this first empirical paper out of the lab is posted, led by Sandarsh Pandey, asking:
Depression (and other internalizing disorders) involve profound changes to sense of self. How can we study these differences using rigorous decision-making methods?
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Our lab handbook has a highly specific (some would say anal) file naming protocol. Yet this does not stop students from referring to e.g., "dissertation study 3" and expecting me to remember what the heck that is.
I could swear I had two cats but no, apparently there is only one
Many such manuscripts sadly. Or if you have longitudinal data you can also discover increasing, decreasing and unchanging groups too.
