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BPP Virtual Events Coming Up: F & K Award Workshops

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F & K Award (Virtual) Workshop Series with Dr. Beth Schachter
Friday, April 24, 2020, 10 AM— 11 AM (F Award Session ONLY)
Monday, April 27, 2020, 10 AM— 11 AM (K Award Session ONLY)
Online via BlueJeans

As originally scheduled, we are happy to offer our annual F & K Award workshop series to you online via BlueJeans.  
Registration links and details are provided below!

Dr. Beth Schachter continues her Grantsmanship Workshops that covers NIH F32 fellowships, the K99/R00 Pathway-to-Independence awards for postdoctoral fellows and the other NIH K-type Career Development awards for junior clinical or translational faculty members. 

We’re offering two separate sessions for F Award only and K Award only. Dr. Schachter will make separate videos for each group, covering the research, mentoring and training plans (more details to follow).  F Award session on BlueJeans will take place on Friday, April 24th, 10 AM-11 AM (REGISTER HERE) and K Award session on BlueJeans will take place on Monday, April 27th, 10 AM-11 AM (REGISTER HERE).

One-on-one sessions: After all of the virtual sessions have been completed, Dr. Schachter will offer (20) 45-minute one-on-one sessions to individuals that joined the virtual sessions.  An email will be sent to all participants which will allow the first 20 to sign-up and request the time.  During those individual sessions, Dr. Schachter could read and critique your Aims Page, your Biosketch and/or discuss your mentoring team and training plan with you.  This offer stands for one year after the second video conference.

Many of you have already registered for these events; therefore, no further action is required. Feel free to reach Donna Crawley, BPP Academic Programs Coordinator, at dcrawley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu , if you have any questions about these events.  

Upcoming Citation Management Workshops

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Upcoming research paper, thesis, or dissertation?

By popular demand, Penn Libraries are hosting another round of Citation Management Workshops! See details and registration links below:

  • Using Zotero for Citation Management, Monday, April 20, 1 – 2 PM
    Introductory workshop for anyone: Zotero is a free, open-source, flexible research management tool with a diverse support community.
    Register here.
  • Using Mendeley for Citation Management, Tuesday, April 21, 1 – 2 PM
    Introductory workshop for anyone: Mendeley is a “freemium” research management tool with robust PDF integration.
    Register here.
  • Advanced Tools & Techniques for Citation Management, Wednesday, April 22, 1 – 2 PM
    For people working on thesis, dissertations, and other major research projects. This workshop will explore best practices, great tools, and advanced techniques to collect, organize, and cite your sources.
    Register here.

Core Workshop Series

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In lieu of the CVI Seminar Series this Spring, the Penn Cardiovascular Institute will host a Core Workshop Series. This will be a 3 part series in which the Metabolomics Core, iPSC Core, and Mouse Cardiac Phenotyping Core will each present to you their core offerings and examples of how they can provide service to you. The schedule and BlueJeans information is below. All seminars will be during the lunch hour, beginning at noon. Upcoming seminars include:

Tuesday, April 14, C-TRIPS: Terren Niethamer and Ashwin Nathan

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/154337264
Meeting ID
154337264

Thursday, April 23, Metabolomics Core: Chris Petucci

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/492476728
Meeting ID
492476728

Tuesday, April 28, iPSC Core: Wenli Yang

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/222470128
Meeting ID
222470128

Tuesday, May 5, Mouse Cardiac Phenotyping Core: Swapnil Shewale and Kendra McDaid

Meeting URL
https://bluejeans.com/400407949
Meeting ID
400407949

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PSPDG Science Communication Workshop 5: Social Media

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Are you intimidated by using social media to talk about your science? Or confused by how to use social media in general?

Join our speaker Ian McLaughlin (@_anthropoid), Twitter Scientist, Periscope host, and host of the podcast Wired to be Weird, as he discusses tips and tricks for using social media within the scientific community and with the public.

The workshop will focus on getting the most utility out of social media platforms to interact with fellow scientists and the public by making your posts more effective and boosting engagement.  

Friday, February 21, 2020
12 PM – 1:30 PM
BRB 252
Register: https://tinyurl.com/SC5Register

PSPDG Policy Memo Workshop

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Scientists are excellent at making judgment calls based on primary evidence. We do it every day when we read papers and incorporate new findings into our experiments or review a study and think “That experiment wasn’t well controlled at all!”. These skills are worth their weight in gold in the halls of Congress, the PA State Capitol, and City Hall. What scientists need, though, is the ability to translate that into a form that policymakers can use when they’re writing laws. That’s where PSPDG’s 2020 Science Policy programming comes in!
 
Join PSPDG, winners of the national 2019 NSPN-JSPG Memo Competition, as we discuss the currency of the policymaking world: policy memos. We’ll explain what they are, how they work, how to make one, and how to make it as effective and useful as possible! We’ll go over examples and guide participants in group exercises. Interested participants are encouraged to join a small memo-writing team afterwards to participate in the 2020 NSPN-JSPG competition with mentoring from our award-winning 2019 team.
 
Workshop held in BRB 253 (Biomedical Research Building II/III, 421 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104) Tuesday, February 18th, from 12pm-1:30pm.

Food will be served! Feel free to come with your own policy memo topic ideas; we’re also happy to provide examples. Please RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/MemoRSVP