J. Carter

@hapyresearchers Trust your data, not your hypothesis. Think for yourself. Don't assume that senior grad students and PDs are right. They will be right a lot, but not always. Quality >> quantity. Learn high quality first, then increase your speed later

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@deniswirtz @Stanford @LifeAtPurdue @UCSDJacobs @UCLA @UCBerkeley @Yale @Penn @JohnsHopkins @Harvard @Cambridge_Uni What's the best way to handle the invitation if you can't write a strong letter?

If you are invited to review the dossier of a faculty for promotion/tenure, please accept that invitation. I always do. I know we are all busy, but for me this supersedes in importance the review of papers or proposals.

@ThePhDPlace Yes, it will hurt your chances. If you work for one of the best profs there, that will help. If you publish good papers, that will help. Most importantly, try to get a postdoc with a national academy member - that will help a lot.

Anonymous question: ‘I’m doing a PhD in an average university (ranked 100s in the US although still R1). Will that hurt my chances of landing a TT job in the future? How can I make up for that?’

@PhDVoice Secondly, they want someone who will get along with everyone. Any reason they might worry about that? Do you have a social media account with lots of complaining or angry tweets? Do you get along well with all your colleagues? How many do you dislike? do you openly dislike them?

@PhDVoice First, your letters of rec might be different from your peers. If they say anything negative about your personality or qualifications, that could be the reason you're not getting any interviews.

Anonymous question “I am just entering the job market. My peers with similar qualifications have all received at the least several interviews and in multiple cases have even been made competing job offers. I on the other hand have not even received an offer to interview from any of the more than dozen jobs I have applied for (ranging from tenure track positions all the way to adjunct). When I reach out to ask if the respective search committees could provide any feedback to help me become more marketable, they say they cannot because my application was done correctly and met the needs of the position, usualky folloing us with "it just didn't work out this time" or something similar. The only thing I can think of different between myself and my peers is that I am openly queer and my research involves queer theory. Is the political climate where queer instructors are being denied tenure and even being purged from institutions in certain states like Florida making my queerness and my specialization a hiring liability? Should I begin to give up my dream and move on to private sector jobs or start looking at overseas teaching openings? Any insight would really help, even if it is a heartbreaking truth.” #PhDVoice @PostdocVoice

@ThePhDPlace 3. It's very difficult to prove they took your idea, if that happened So, I'd dig through the literature to see if the idea was already out there. I'd also consider whether you could prove your claim (that they took the idea and didn't have it already themselves).

@ThePhDPlace 1. Ideas are easy. The hard part is making them happen. 2. You don't own an idea. Many people can come up with the exact same idea. It's likely their supervisor thought of the idea 5 years ago. It's even more likely that someone else put that idea out there in a pub 20 years ago

Anonymous question: ‘I think my friend is being used by their supervisor. They took an idea they had and wrote a paper with someone else. They don’t want to say anything because they want an easy life. What would you do?’

@ThePhDPlace There will be times of doubt and frustration, but stick with it and keep working to push on. It will be worth it. I promise. It will be an accomplishment like no other in your life, and once done, no one will ever be able to take that away from you.

@galeforceVC Do VCs hire Profs/PIs from academia (eg. in biotech)? If so, what sort of positions? (I know so little about this area I don't know what to look up or who to talk to. I've reviewed tons of grants and manuscripts - wondering if that skill is useful to VC)

How to get a job in VC? I've held several roundtables on the topic with aspiring VCs; this thread shares insights I've gathered. Please chime in with additional tips / ideas / resources. Helping more people from different backgrounds get into venture is 🔑 to 🚀!

@ALogins Other. I would explain the situation to the editor and let them decide.

Received an invitation to review a manuscript I rejected for another journal where I gave tons of in-depth comments. The authors have taken exactly 0 of my remarks into account. Should I reject and send the same remarks? Decline to review (because of higher-order reasons)? Other?

@avery_everhart @AcademicChatter So, if there is something you need but it seems like its not allowed, push a bit and see how to make it happen. Listen for qualifiers like, "I doubt they'll let you do X" or "you can try, but it's a waste of time." I'm mostly referring to beaurocratic rules about travel, IT, $

@avery_everhart @AcademicChatter Might not be true everywhere, but at my institute there were a lot of "rules" that turned out not to be hard rules, ie "You can't do that- it's past the deadline." If I pushed, there always seemed to be a way to make it happen - it just took more time/effort or a signature.

@RoxanaDaneshjou @AcademicChatter It's not the biggest mistake, but having email notifications active. It was too easy to get distracted checking each email as it came in. Check when you have time

Since there is no manual for starting as faculty, could you share with me the biggest mistake you made in your early years and what you learned from it? @AcademicChatter

@abigailStev @LifeAfterMyPhD It wasn't meant as a threat, just information to consider when making a decision. OP implied it would get finished by someone else - I just want people to be aware that there is a decent chance it doesn't happen so they can make an informed decision

@jbanks99 @LifeAfterMyPhD Some people feel bad that they spent a bunch of time on a project and their work never makes into the literature and doesn't really help anyone. I just posted because it's useful for people to know that it's a real possibility to consider when making a decision

@work_on_phone @LifeAfterMyPhD And the consequences of it remains unpublished are what?

@TitaniaQueenof @LifeAfterMyPhD Yes, but PIs have way more on their to do list than they can finish. If it's a really important paper for the group, they'll make time and figure it out. If it's not as important, it can easily get pushed to later, which eventually becomes never.

@work_on_phone @LifeAfterMyPhD As a PI, is it also not your paper?

@Amy_M_Ryan True, but some people feel bad that their work never gets published. They should understand that that is a very real possibility when deciding if they want to continue to work on the paper. (OP implied it would get done either way, which isn't true)

@LifeAfterMyPhD Secondly, it takes much longer for someone else to finish your paper. If you're in a competitive field, that gives your competition much mote time to scoop you. None of this means you have to do it - I just want people to know this when deciding what to do

@LifeAfterMyPhD As a PI I'd like people to know- if you don’t do it, your paper may never get published. It can be very difficult to finish up someone else's project/paper, and oftentimes nobody wants to do it. If it's really important to the group, they'll find a way. Otherwise, probably not

@ninaturner 2 concerns: 1. The government will screw it up with beaurocracy and bad decisions and inefficiency 2. It will end up being worse for many people (those w good insurance and good health care now), with long wait times and limitations and such.

How can anyone be against universal healthcare