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Remarks on faculty job searches (as 'tis the season):
Chances are, as a faculty candidate you apply to several job ads.
Dozens. More.
You wait. You hope.
(quick thread)
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#PILife #PDLife #AcademicJobs
Chances are, as a faculty candidate you apply to several job ads.
Dozens. More.
You wait. You hope.
(quick thread)
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#PILife #PDLife #AcademicJobs
Some places will respond with a rejection pretty quickly. Form letter.
Sometimes hilariously addressed to Dear [Applicant Name3].
Are you just a number? At this stage, likely.
Others never get back to you. Or years (!) later.
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Sometimes hilariously addressed to Dear [Applicant Name3].
Are you just a number? At this stage, likely.
Others never get back to you. Or years (!) later.
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This is normal and as in any higher-level job with lots of competition.
The waiting, the rejections, and the no-responses are depressing. Discouraging. At times unhealthy.
"Does nobody care about my ideas? My science? Me?"
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The waiting, the rejections, and the no-responses are depressing. Discouraging. At times unhealthy.
"Does nobody care about my ideas? My science? Me?"
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Today, we officially welcomed (via Zoom) our latest postdoc to the lab: Robert Lalonde!
Excited to have Rob with us @CUAnschutz to decipher mesodermal cell fate control.
Current lab pic:
#zebrafish #PILife #PDLife #WFH #mosimannlabgoesvirtual
Excited to have Rob with us @CUAnschutz to decipher mesodermal cell fate control.
Current lab pic:
#zebrafish #PILife #PDLife #WFH #mosimannlabgoesvirtual
...and also, Jelena (still in Switzerland) got her lab notebook computer delivered for enhanced #WFH :).
(not shown, reactions to me testing out new microphone settings that caused more head/earache than improvement) #lofi #Zoomedout
