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Scientist & Asst Prof at U. of Cincinnati: anthropological genetics & evolutionary biology. Feminist. Dog lover. She/Her👩‍🔬👩‍💻🐶 Tweets my own.

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

2 years

Hi new followers! I'm Katie Grogan, a scientist and assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, USA, which is on the traditional homelands of the Hopewell, Adena, Myaamia (Miami), Shawandasse Tula (Shawanwaki/Shawnee), and Wazhazhe Maⁿzhaⁿ (Osage) peoples.

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

2 years

If you know me in-person, you know I'm one of the most hyper-organized people you've ever known. Multiple people have asked me about my system b/c it's the only thing saving me as #newPI & I wish I had had it during my #phd , so here it is in embarrassing detail. 1/n

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You know what grad school did not prepare me for? The amount of time I would spend every day doing Urgent but not Important tasks. Like answering emails. And how hard it would be to do Important but not Urgent tasks like...finishing that paper. Or grant. Or whatever.

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Oh my god. No wonder we’re exhausted. Someone just reminded me that in the last 14 days, RBG died, the trump tax story broke, we’ve had two debates, trump got Covid, and then like...life kept going. I feel fully justified going to bed at 930.

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

5 years

Yesterday I offered to share some writing advice that has worked for me, & it garnered a lot of interest! So I'm going to share it here in a thread instead of individually by email because we can all agree that academic writing is HARD! So here we go #phdchat #AcademicTwitter

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I once horrified a student by telling them that a good review cites at least 100 papers & the author will have read >200 before/while writing it. Should I tell them I just skimmed/read 81 papers in 4 days to write 3 paragraphs in a 15 pg grant? #PhDLife #AcademicLife

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

6 years

A thread about this Nature advice column about how female scientists can combat gender bias - To be clear, I'm incredibly grateful to the women in this piece. The advice is clear-eyed & I definitely got some ideas. But I am also really tired of being told this is MY problem 1/n

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6 years

Next I would like to see a column of how men can confront gender bias as well.

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I got shingles. When I went into the student health clinic, after the nurse looked at me and told me what it was, she said unprompted, “you’re a grad student aren’t you? When we see shingles, it’s always a grad student”.

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Things people should talk more about in graduate school; Health. While in graduate school, you might develop stress induce health-related issues. I never thought I would develop eczema IBS and get my asthma back. (1/x)

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Next I would like to see a column of how men can confront gender bias as well.

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We spoke to six senior academic female scientists about their advice and strategies for navigating gender bias.

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Moving to my 1st postdoc cost a month of my grad student salary. Hard bc I had run out of funding 5 months earlier. Moving to my 2nd postdoc cost a month of postdoc salary. A roadblock some can’t afford. It’s another way to make science careers exclusive instead of inclusive.

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Many researchers swallow the costs of a long-distance move to seize career opportunities, even when they can't afford it.

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The water in the pipeline cannot fix the leaks. Contrary to the advice #WomenInSTEM & #POCinSTEM receive, we cannot actually #leanin to solving the problem of #genderbias & #racialbias in #STEM & #academia . Thanks to @NatureEcoEvo & @RoinnAnLuisigh for this chance to say this. 1/

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"Water can't fix the leaks in the pipeline". The entire scientific community must come together to confront gender bias, rather than leaving women and other minorities to do the work argues @dr_katieG1 in @NatureEcoEvo (Free access)

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Being a postdoc prepping for the academic job market this fall, the stress and uncertainty of your position and future is a physical weight. Carrying it around uses so much energy you really need for other things.

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Dear Gentlemen Scientists, when you read an article like the one below, does it cause you to rethink your own behavior? Do you forward it to male colleagues, especially those you think are part of the group that never publish with women, even accidentally?

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Male principal investigators (almost) don’t publish with women in ecology and zoology

Representation of women in science drops substantially at each career stage, from early student to senior investigator. Disparities in opportunities for women to contribute to research metrics, such...

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

3 years

A tenured faculty member just admitted to a group of new faculty that they are doing terrible right now, they are exhausted, they've been sprinting for a year, and they just need a break. It was super liberating.

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

6 years

To all those, especially women, who are struggling right now to be productive in the face of the world telling you that women don't matter, I see you. I'm hella struggling and I'm here for you.

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6 years

So here's a fun truth - I just tweeted out a long thread of resources on gender bias, and it's kinda taking off. And all I can think is Oh my god I should take it down b/c I'm a postdoc applying to faculty jobs this year and, as a pot stirrer, I'm never going to get hired.

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As a grad student, I could NOT understand how faculty could run so far over time on talks/seminars. How could you NOT have practiced it so many times you know exactly how long it is?? Now that I'm a faculty...I totally get it.

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I need to print this out & post it above my workspace - "Productivity per hour declines sharply when the workweek exceeds 50 hours, and productivity drops off so much after 55 hours that you don’t get anything out of the extra work."

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

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Why is teaching evolution important? Because as a woman I met on the plane here said, NOT teaching evolution is like not teaching SexEd. It just leaves a big open space for others to fill with misinformation.

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

4 years

Excited to announce this fall I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor @BearcatAnthro & @BiologyUC ! I am incredibly fortunate to have had great collaborators, mentors, colleagues, & friends, so thank you to everyone who's supported & encouraged me. Can't wait to be a #newPI !

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3-Writing your dissertation or a manuscript is hard because no one has ever been where you are. No one has ever written about it in the way you're going to. It's literally the edge of our collective knowledge or else you wouldn't be writing it.

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Today in lab meeting we did a very helpful exercise that I thought I would share. I find one of the hardest things about project management, especially for my own work at first, is conceptualizing how it will all get done. Like how it will fit into the actual weeks of the 1/n

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Soooo remember how we were talking a couple weeks ago that many scientists need to take an ethics class?? Real question though-how often do you ask yourself if your work should be done? About what harm your work could do? I’d say none of us ask that question enough

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Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income | #GWAS

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I hate everything about this question. I’m so worried about the phd students and faculty that started between 2018 & 2021. In my experience, everything was impacted and collectively those people not in that group have just…shrugged. And said we should stop harping on it.

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PhD students who started in 2018-2020 - how much of your thesis was impacted by Covid? And how much does it feature in it? The pandemic is omnipresent in mine but I have been told that a thesis examiner won't be interested in this anymore as 'too much time has passed'.

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

5 years

Harassment & assault trigger warning ahead, FYI. I want to talk about the broader implications of gender bias and sexual harassment within the context of a personal story of harassment from the last day of AAPA. Buckle up, this is gonna be a long one. 1/n

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Best advice I can give for grad students/postdocs/newPIs: Work hard to build a community of generous collaborators & colleagues who will provide feedback on things. Do the same for them. I am currently benefiting from amazing comments on a grant by 5 friends & wow.

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This statement hits hard - "Data reveal that underrepresented students are simultaneously positioned as representatives of progress and uncompensated consultants in their departments’ ongoing equity and diversity efforts. "

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WALK away if you're a more "go with the flow person". Seriously, do not keep reading. Here we go: Sheet 1 - Funding Sheet. Identify & Organize all grants/fellowships/funding opportunities, including deadlines, amounts & links. I do this my first month on any job... 2/n

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Is anyone else just incredibly mentally scattered? Like I can't figure out if it's being a #newPI , if it's #pandemiclife , if its a combo, or if I'm just losing my mind a little. Like I just picked up my phone & by the time I unlocked it, I couldn't remember why I had picked it up

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As a #NewPI , I've been told 100s of times that I need to track everything - every review I do, every grant, paper, student mentored, guest lecture, etc. So I started logging monthly 'efforts' on a spreadsheet and I have never felt so simultaneously productive AND unproductive...

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5) My KanBanFlow Board - This is the thing people see open on my computer & ask about the most. Columns include: Weekly To Do, Do Today, In Progress, & Done (Done is archived so you never lose anything!). Each block = 1 hour of work & it's color-coded by day. Monday=Red, 8/

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Dear #DrChristineBlaseyFord , I know it may feel like everything you went through was for nothing right now. But you were inspiring & empowering to millions of women & we believe you. Thank you for what you did.

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4 years

So I want to tell you all about this cool thing we've been doing over at @FuturePI_Slack , a community of early-career academics who want to be PIs when we grow up😁. For 2 years, I've been organizing "Reviewing Triangles" for participants' job applications #FuturePI #ECR #Phdchat

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5 years

A new study on #genderbias in #STEM finds that #WomenInSTEM win only 27% of research prizes but 50% of service prizes. Women receive $0.64 in prize money for every $1.00 men receive.

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Despite gains in the past 50 years, women win fewer prizes, less money and less prestige that men do.

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Dear #newPI people, if you're teaching a 'new to you' class for undergrads, HOW are you getting any research done???

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3 years

Dear University, I do not want another webinar on how to combat burnout as we near the semester midpoint. I want you to give us 3 more 'reading' days this semester to actually match the # of days off we lost when spring break was canceled...

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

5 years

2 years ago, we published a teaching activity to teach Evolutionary Mechanisms using post-its. It won an @sse_evolution award & it's on track to have been accessed >10,000 times in less than 2 years. I am so incredibly proud of this paper.

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Making evolution stick: using sticky notes to teach the mechanisms of evolutionary change -...

Evolution and its mechanisms of action are concepts that unite all aspects of biology, but remain some of the most difficult for students to understand. To address this challenge, we designed a...

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6-When you content generate & copy-edit at the same time, you often get stuck in the "Perfect Sentence Vortex" where you are trying to think, write, edit, and polish a sentence all at the same time. The end result is you write nothing.

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I've spent a lot of time this week thinking about the transient nature of social support that really is a hallmark of #phdlife as an early career academic. As a graduate student, the friends you make are virtually guaranteed to leave at regular intervals. 1/n

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It’s like a real lab now! Lab work starts in a week 😬😬

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2) Project Sheet - This is a list of all projects I'm juggling or plan to juggle, also a great place to park half-formed ideas for future thought. With each project is a 'list of steps needed to complete'. 4/n

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4 years

Saturday I start my new job as an Assistant Professor (AHH!! *excited/terrified screaming*), Monday I start actually doing the work of being an Assistant Professor, & Thursday I move into my new house. Next week's gonna be a doozy!

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Dear PIs, I cannot overstate how important it is to your trainees that you be excited in their project. I just got the nicest email from an old boss about how excited she is about the way a paper is shaping up. I feel super motivated now!

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This would have made such a difference to me in grad school.

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5 years

True Confessions of a Postdoc on the TT Job Market Episode 1: Being on the job market is super stressful. Just emotionally managing the stress actually takes several hours a week for me, meaning that some weeks I'm just not able to be productive for my normal number of hours.

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Welp I drove nearly 1000 miles to vote because my absentee ballot never showed up. And it felt amazing. #BidenHarris2020ToSaveAmerica

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Listening to a podcast & they’re talking about how “excessive attachment to your pet might be a sign of mental illness” and I feel called out and judged...

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5-Here's what I found. Problem #1 - I was trying to generate content AND copy-edit the content at the same time. This NEVER works. This post really helped crystalize this problem for me.

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Oh my god they did it! Amazing! We are all grateful to #HenriettaLacks but finally her family is getting some measure of justice.

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BREAKING: The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company they accused of taking her cervical cells without her knowledge. They accused the company's leaders of reaping billions of dollars from a racist medical system.

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3) 3:6:12:24 Plan originally suggested by @cdokafor ! Take 1 & 2 and diagram out what you hope to accomplish in the next 3, 6, 12, and 24 months in those increments. I use a Google sheet so I can also count how many tasks I've given myself (to keep it manageable but I never do)5/n

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At the end of every month, I add up the blocks for each of these categories & estimate how many hours I spent on each category. I'm supposed to be roughly 40-40-20. It helps me keep track of when I'm spending too much time teaching, a well-known new faculty potential pitfall 16/n

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In the last 10 days, @arneraudrey & I have extracted RNA & prepped sequencing libraries for nearly 300 samples! To celebrate finishing this enormous task, we built a throne with the empty tip boxes used & crowned ourselves Queens of the Lab #ALLTHESCIENCE #labisfun #labroyalty

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Ya know, some days are a wash, and then some days you write 750 words in a manuscript, suggest an award for someone to apply for, mentor a couple of people, and start an important policy discussion all before 1 pm. I feel like the rest of the week will be downhill from here...

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The longer I am a faculty, the more I understand how some faculty stop giving any fucks and basically just exist…

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4 years

How about take a little break & re-establish a life balance?

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Dr. Katie Grogan 👩‍🔬🧬

1 year

Soooo how does a #NewPI celebrate their first senior author paper acceptance of work they did at their #NewPI institution?? #AskingForAFriendWhoIsMe

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The more women in a STEM field, the less we value it by Light et al - "In series of experiments, we varied the information study participants read about women’s representation in fields like chemistry, sociology and biomedical sciences. 1/n

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More women in a STEM field leads people to label it as a ‘soft science,’ according to new research

The proportion of women in a discipline influences how rigorous and trustworthy people rate the field overall, as well as whether they categorize a STEM field as a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ science.

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I hope it helps you feel less alone to realize that 50% of academics have at least 2, but likely more, papers that "should have been submitted years ago". We're all in the same boat, years behind but still hopeful😂

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Here's a question - How many 'leftover papers' do you have that you're the lead investigator on? Papers in which the data have been collected for >4 years? #phdchat #AcademicTwitter (Why not make working on one of them your #AcrWriMo goal?)

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Y’all. I gotta tell ya. We had a Christmas miracle this year. My Kentucky born, republican voting, trump loving father...has finally accepted climate change is real. It’s been 6 months since he first hinted his views had changed & no backtracking yet.

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Also this thread is inspired by @KateClancy , @JNRutherford , @robingnelson , @Mammals_Suck , @McLNeuro , @GeoEdResearch , and others, who refuse to be quiet about these issues. Damned if I will.

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Y’all I am speechless. Last night @arneraudrey gave me the MOST AMAZING goodbye present you’ve EVER seen. I am so ready to tackle my first year as a faculty member with this to bolster my confidence!

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All. Of. This. I have taught 6 undergrad classes at this point at UC, nearly 400 students. I only use open access readings, free polling software, etc. I was NOT low income growing up but we didn’t have a lot of spare money. When I started college, my dad gave me $1000 to

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How academia can support low-income students—without singling us out

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and I add to it as I hear about other opportunities. The Funding sheet is organized by 'year I plan to apply' & when an application is completed, I change the font color to Gray. 3/n

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Just added a 2nd first-author paper to my CV this year as accepted 😃😃😃😃. 1 more in review & 2 more to submit.

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Dear Santa, #AllIWantForChristmas is this manuscript to be accepted after 14 months & 4 journals #phdchat #manuscriptXmas

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Can you tell I like colors? I try to estimate how many hours each task will take (I've been time-tracking for a while so I can usually do this somewhat accurately) and it's color-coded by size. I told you I was hyper-organized didn't I? Next is everyone's fave tool. 7/n

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4) The Year Plan - Here's where it gets a bit more nitty-gritty and starts to hit the teaching calendar. All of that was 'research stuff'. But I also teach 3 classes a year. So the year plan is Goals by Month and I revisit it in Jan, April, and August. 6/n

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Dear PIs, when your trainee gets a big win, take a minute to celebrate this! They don't need to be reminded of the other work they should be working on. So glad I work in labs that celebrate the wins! Like @NicoleAlineSci said, it's super important & we should all do it more.

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4 years

Meet Miriam!! She’s a 1 year old-ish rescue, likely a cattle dog-border collie mix. She’s my present to myself for getting a dream faculty job 😍😍.

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So incredibly excited to share my first ‘senior’ author paper as a #NewPI in @RSocPublishing with @Charly_Guardia , @devkaya , @agtebo , @Anneke_Sanders , & @Diana_monkey on the benefits of peer networking for #STEM #postdocs on the academic job market! #AcademicTwitter #PhDlife 1/n

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First, shit always pops up. Colleagues stop by, students email, lab questions come up, etc. Stuff also often takes longer than estimated. You need mental breaks & teaching recovery time. Email takes tons of time. Also, on 'writing' days, I never schedule more than 4-5 hours 11/n

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Because it prevents me from missing deadlines or forgetting about projects! It eliminates the uncertainty of "what should I be working on now", "how will I get all of this done?" It allows me to slot in tasks & make sure it's done on time. I can also look at my 'plan' & 13/n

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50% of PhD students don’t have even most of the cost of conference attendance covered. Conferences can cost $1-3k & PhD stipends are usually <$25k. Read that again. How can we stop putting this cost on our most vulnerable?

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If you go (or went) to an academic conference as a PhD student, did you pay the cost yourself (not reimbursed) or was it covered for you?

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Lesson from week 2 of spring 2022 (spring 2019 version 3.0) from a 2nd year assistant prof teaching her first big intro class: holy shit the amount of time you spend on student emails compared to a 20 person upper level class is…not a linear increase.

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And to close this ranty thread, here's another potential thing to address if @Nature next asks male scientists what they can do to combat gender bias - Men are much less likely to believe studies that report gender bias - .

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Quality of evidence revealing subtle gender biases in science is in the eye of the beholder |...

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8-Bad writing habit A: I didn't write consistently. I didn't practice. It helps to think of writing as a sport or hobby you want to become good at. You wouldn't start running one day & try to run a half-marathon or even a 10k a week later. That's just asking for injury.

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Ok y’all. Real talk. I’m 3.5 grants into 7 grants in 7 months and this was a TERRIBLE idea. I realized Wednesday I haven’t taken a day off since August 12. I immediately scheduled a 4 day weekend next week but make sure you have peers that remind you this behavior is NOT OK.

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5 years

Y’all my therapist just confirmed that the dumpster fire that is my life is not normal. Please send cute animal photos?? #CutenessOverload plz

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2 years

because I run out of writing energy. A pro tip is also don't schedule the last half of Friday b/c that's space for spillover of tasks that didn't get finished earlier. I've really failed at that tip this year. So why do all of this? 12/n

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5 years

Hi new followers! I'm Katie Grogan, a postdoc in anthropological genetics/evolutionary biology, & feminist. I tweet about science, life as a scientist, my dog Maki, social justice especially gender & racial bias, & apparently tips & tricks I've found for surviving academia.

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A mentee (who I want to continue thinking I'm awesome) asked me the other day how I read so many papers. I had to admit that I haven't read a full paper in >1yr. But rather I forward papers to them after BRIEFLY skimming title/abstract & I HOPE it's relevant but it may not be...

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Yep, finding your community as a white male scientist must be really difficult...

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The #Diversity Program Consortium panel discussion ⁦ @ABRCMS shares about overcoming imposter syndrome, #mentoring and finding a community where you feel comfortable #ABRCMS2018

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9-You also wouldn't take a 6 month long break from running & expect to pick back up at the same pace/distance that you could before. You have to follow a training plan & build up to the pace/distance you want. The same is true of writing. Academic writing in particular is a skill

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4 years

You know what? A rejection after 3 weeks of consideration at Nature feels...pretty damn good 😁. Can't wait to see where this paper finally lands.

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16-"Don’t ever stop writing in the Chasm of Despair. There’s only one way out of the Chasm, and that’s to write your way out." I found this quote REALLY resonated with me. I always stopped when I got stuck, which just made coming back harder.

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Just in case you ever thought “Omg border collies are so cute, I should get one!” Beware. This handsome devil finished a 4.75 mile run with me today 3.5 hours ago. Does he look tired?

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6 years

Oh my god. The bobbit worm snatching the lion fish into its grasp is going to give me nightmares tonight. This gif was my fave for that entire segment. #BluePlanet2

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@FrVerheggen DONT do this. I did not ask that you prove how you work with women. Lots of men do & we appreciate your efforts, we sincerely do. But I've found that in addition to promoting women, you also need to call out men who don't in order to be part of the change.

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Yesterday I got rejected for a job I applied for in September of 2018. Thus I reject all shame for any and all things that I am late on right now - email responses, manuscript submissions, manuscript reviews, whatever.

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Y'all sometimes life is hard. So I'm a postdoc right? I'm on the job market. I have 7 job applications due next week. A conference talk to give in 2 weeks. A manuscript due in 7 days. I'm trying to get 3 manuscripts out the door. The next six months are going to be tough. 1/n

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12-Always stop in a place where you feel good about what you've accomplished & maybe could keep going, but you've probably done enough (more on this in a few tweets!). Or as @StephenBHeard says, DONT stop writing in the Chasm of Despair -

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If we still have a ton of open seminar slots for the fall when school starts next week, can I just invite a ton of twitter people I think are cool?

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Well, now that I've taken a dive straight into a pool of stereotype threat, I'm gonna go try to do some science like a #reallifescientist . If you want further reading on gender bias in academia, check out this annotated bibliography -

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Gender Bias in Academe: An Annotated Bibliography of Important Recent Studies

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Y'all I have spent the last 3 days being ill & doing a very deep dive into gender bias in STEM & academia. I could REALLY use some cute animal photos or positive encouragement right now.

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Another benefit of this system, particularly the long-term planning, is it gives you permission to say to yourself "I will worry about this later because I plan to DO it later." You can give yourself permission to NOT worry about the less urgent stuff.

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@Dr_KatieG1 Absolutely. I feel the flailing more - seem to be incapable of imagining a future where it doesn't all get done. That has been a massive stressor, so reducing what the 'it all' is has been key. Getting real about what can get done was how I managed to start cutting the list.

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Hi new followers, I'm Katie Grogan, scientist & adventure buddy to Maki, my dog. I'm interested in the intersection between genomic variation & fitness across environmental variation. I've previously studied ring-tailed lemurs, white-throated sparrows, and now humans!

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Y’all I started 33 by adulting way too much. I scrubbed the inside of my car for 4 hours, walked the dog 4 miles, did 4 loads of laundry. Help. I need help.

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@marcotrizzino @toomanyspectra I’m a new assistant prof making that much. I know this. That doesn’t mean this tweet isn’t right. Assistant profs should make more too. If we’re worth that much in industry, we should be worth that much in academia. None of this take less pay because you love the job.

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The synergistic mixing of the Fall Semester Covid Roller Coaster of Stress and the Pre-Tenure Roller Coaster of Stress is REALLY impressive. Especially with the clear “return to prepandemic productivity and excellence while still in a pandemic” message

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FYI I am not asking this question rhetorically. I know many of you forward papers like this one to your female colleagues to commiserate (which we appreciate, but trust me, we saw it & don't need to be reminded AGAIN), but do you actively engage w/ your male colleagues about it?

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to solve. Let's start here: Ladies, you need to somehow address the problem that you are SIGNIFICANTLY under-represented as editors, reviewers, & last authors. . Here's the preprint they're talking about - 2/n

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