Only one week left to write and submit posts for the Diversity in Science Carnival on the theme of Imposter Syndrome! I’m really interested to hear what you all have to say on how it affects your life choices, how you fight it, and how you think other people and academia can help stop it […]
Don’t forget that Sci is hosting the Diversity in Science Carnival this month on the theme of Imposter Syndrome! I want to hear how you fight it personally and what you think people and institutions can do to reduce it. A blog carnival is a collection of links along the same subject or theme, put […]
For the next two weeks on the Scientopia guest blog, we’ll be hosting the fun and fabulous Joe to the Izzo of the blog “It’s ok to be Smart”. While he usually does a tumblr, he’s hoping to experiment with the long form posts on the Guest blog, and we’re excited to have him! Please […]
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is a psychological phenomenon where people can’t seem to feel that they are good at something, that they deserve to have their job or that promotion or what have you. It may sound really minor at first, but imposter syndrome can be insidious, pernicious, […]
If you all don’t read the Diversity in Science carnival, you really should. It’s always got some great posts well worth looking at. And this month will be better than usual, because yours truly is hosting Edition #15! 🙂 And we’ve even got a theme: imposter syndrome. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot […]
It never fails. Every professional development seminar I go to, one of the big bullet points is “NETWORK!”. I see seminars on “Networking: let us maximize your LinkedIn Potential!”. I just read a post on women succeeding in science and one of the bullet points was “network, network, network!”. What. IS. “Network”. From what I […]
It seems to me that my Twitter feed has filled, a little more than usual, with young scientists writing the dreaded dissertation. This always takes me back (ok, it was like 1.5 years ago. Whatever) to that dreaded time when I, too, was writing the dissertation and wishing passionately for an end to the PhD. […]
For my final wrapup of Science Online 2012, I’m over at Scientific American today, with a storify of the session Lou Woodley and I did on “The Next Generation Science Conference”. We talked about adding an online element to conferences, determining what you want from it, and how to get there. Head over to SciAm […]
Sci is at SciAm today with a storified wrapup of my awesome session with Kate Clancy at Science Online 2012. We talked about risks that we take in blogging, why we take them, and how we can make sure they are best handled. Participant Marissa was kind enough to put together a storify on the […]
Lou Woodley and I are very excited for our Science Online 2012 session on “The Next Generation Science Conference”. We’ll be talking about how scientific societies can get online, how and whether to use your online presence as a society for outreach, and how societies and bloggers can help each other out. Check it out […]