Hayley Brooks

Leaving the ivory tower Strategies and lessons learned

I recently made the jump from academia to tech and it was challenging to navigate the job market coming from academia. I wrote about some strategies that worked for me and lessons learned. Hope it is helpful to others curious about a similar path!

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Very happy that DU realized how lucky they are to have @p1sh.bsky.social and made it official. Mentorship is unmatched! Truly a great person and scientist. Congrats Peter!!

Lab I'm joining @UCSDPsychology as an Assistant Professor in Jan 2025! I'll be starting a lab group and hiring, checkout for more details.

Some very exciting news... after many, many, winter beards, I'm overjoyed to be joining sunny @UCSDPsychology as an Asst Prof in Jan 2025!

Looking to recruit folks interested in doing some fun science, while building some cool (and useful) toys! Details: eshinjolly.com/lab/

📢 Job alert!

Come do your PhD with Angelo Romano (@aromano.bsky.social) and me at Leiden on a cool topic on the effects of inequality on cooperation & competition between groups.

📝Deadline: 18 December

Please share widely!

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Please repost: Assistant or Associate Professor of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. apply.interfolio.com/132419

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On the faculty job market! My research aims to enhance cognitive control by studying: (1) What mechanisms underlie willingness to engage cognitive effort? (2) How is willingness to exert effort affected in psychiatric disability? (3) How can we increase willingness to engage effort? #PsychSciSky 🧠

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