BGS Career Development
Making It Count!
Join the UNC SACNAS branch on Monday, July 27th at 1 PM for a conversation with Dr. Kevin Alicea-Torres, CAMB alum and current AAAS Mass Media Fellow!
Dr. Alicea-Torres will discuss science communication with an emphasis on Spanish speakers. Register: http://tinyurl.com/sacnas-tarheels.
Join Penn Dental Medicine October 8th at noon for a talk by Dr. Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch. Register here.
“The seamier side of academia, lying, cheating and occasionally stealing, this is the world revealed by a blog which, by all rights, should be dry and boring, like its name, ‘Retraction Watch.’” — Fred Barbash in the Washington Post.
Registrants will be sent Zoom link two weeks prior to talk.
This is the first talk in a new series of Dental Library Talks!
Penn Libraries now offers institutional access to Overleaf, the online collaborative LaTeX editing platform. Set up your free Overleaf Professional account or convert your existing personal account through the Penn Libraries Overleaf Portal.
To learn more about the tool and helpful tips for using it, please visit: https://guides.library.upenn.edu/LaTeX
Join AAAS for a live chat webinar on July 16, 2020, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET. Hear directly from fellows and fellowship staff to learn about the impact policy fellows have been making for over 45 years.
Ask questions live or in advance and tune in for this webinar’s theme: STPF Application: Let’s Talk About the Program Areas. Look for recordings of previous webinars in the series at the 2020 Live Chat Series page.
Other upcoming webinars this application season include:
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance and impact of preprint servers like never before. But are these tools right for you? What do preprints mean for exposure? Trainees? Research quality?
Join us on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 1 PM EDT for a seminar with our own Joel Boerckel, Ph.D.: “Preprints in Conversation: An Argument for Preprint Adoption by Researchers in the IRM.” Joel will be discussing his personal experience with preprints and sharing why he thinks this tool is ripe for widespread use. Come learn more about this science communication strategy and discuss the state of preprints in 2020, whether you have used them or not.
Join via BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/177291289
Are you a recent or soon-to-be PhD graduate? Would you like to spend up to six months making a difference by developing and teaching science curriculum abroad?
Science Corps offers fully paid internships to upcoming and recent PhD graduates (up to four years after graduation) to help build science capacity at one of our two host locations – a small city on the island of Bohol in the Philippines and a village up in the Indian Himalayas. We are also currently developing new sites in partnership with Pueblo Science.
Fellows travel to partner institutions to develop science curriculum, teach in secondary school classrooms, train teachers, and build community-based research projects. In addition to building science capacity at these host locations, we also aim to offer fellows a life-changing experience. They are given the opportunity to spend time in beautiful locations, immerse themselves in different cultures, and learn from their host educators, all while making positive contributions to these communities.
We are presently interested in recruiting immediately for fellowships starting within the next year. The deadline for this application round is July 31st, but we still encourage you to contact us if you would like to be considered for a later appointment. To find out more about us and apply, please go to https://science-corps.org.