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There has been uproar on academic Twitter recently about a paper that concludes that males are better academic mentors than females for female protoges. It got me thinking about mentorship. Graduate students have an important role in the mentoring ecosystem.
When I first started graduate school, I could not believe the low-quality presentations and visuals that pretty much everyone was using. We would look more professional and be able to reach a wider audience if our visuals were more compelling. There are a lot of people working to improve this, and I have a few projects myself that are working toward better visual communication. #scicomm #sciart
This is my three-minute thesis talk. I have tried to condense the big idea of my research into three minutes.
Scientific research is a broad enterprise, and takes a lot of work. Here’s to all the field and lab assistants who have helped me along the way in the past few years!
Earlier this month, I passed my qualifying exam to become a PhD candidate (and not get kicked out of the program, yay!). There was a lot of reading involved, but in the end it was not so bad. It gave me just the incentive I needed to get through thousands of pages of background and come out a little more prepared for my research.
