Nowadays, creating your own website is a powerful way of presenting who you are and what you do to your academic and professional peers, and to the broader world.
We are offering a two-part series on website building as a tool for academic marketing and science...
What kinds of online social networking services (SNSs) are you using? Facebook, ResearchGate, Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok? These days, many researchers use SNSs to communicate with ...
The interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human conflicts demand urgent actions by governments, corporations, and citizens. Yet it is easy for us as individuals to feel hopeless in the face of such daunting challenges given the multitudes of...
In the CICASP seminar on October 19, 2022, we explored the world of preprint publishing, and more broadly how it fits into the open science movement. Recently, more and more articles in biology are appearing as pre-prints, published without peer-review in online repositories...
It is often said that the most successful people in society are readers. As academics, we all know the power of reading, as one cannot stand on the shoulders of giants without knowing what it is those giants have left behind!
In the first regular seminar of the semester, we practiced professional self-introductions in small groups and discussed strategies for meeting new people (potential future colleagues and mentors) at international conferences.
Do you dread arriving at the end of your academic talk, sure that someone in the audience is going to ask you that single question that demolishes everything you've just said? Are you one of those people that always asks "did I answer your question" after each of your...
If you have ever been frustrated by language barriers as an author, reviewer, editor, conference participant, job seeker, or a researcher working abroad, we’d like to hear your story! We will also share information on today’s multilingual movements in academia, such as...
Have you evern worried about how to write a proper email to another scientist (whom you have never met!) to ask about collaborative research or postdoc opportunities? Have you ever felt like your email message might be or may have been misinterpreted by its recipient? If your...