Tag: academics
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When an Academic Should Share Their Research Data
In the academic world, young students are taught about the importance of sharing and working together to accomplish a goal. However, as we get older, we also start to begin seeing the distinction between sharing for the good of everyone and the problem of one person using that knowledge to further themselves. This becomes clearly […]
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How to Navigate Landing a Book Contract as an Academic Researcher
Writing a book is something many people — around 80% of Americans — aspire to do, but statistically, less than 0.1% will do it. You fall in that minuscule percentage, and you should be proud of that accomplishment. The next step is to find a book contract. However, as an academic writer, this process can […]
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How Academics Can Best Work with Journalists to Reach a Wider Audience
Every researcher’s goal is to make an impact in their field. Most of us do this in small ways that are important, but not headline-making. When you do get your major breakthrough, one of the best connections you can have is a journalist. While it might seem like the worlds of academics and journalism are […]
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Is a 4-Day Work Week the Right Fit for You and Your Department?
The workforce in America is currently undergoing a vast restructuring. With the workplace becoming more flexible about requirements to work on-site, advocates are calling for switching to a four-day workweek. Many people are already working remotely, whether full-time or a split schedule of two days at home and three at the office. Is a four-day […]
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Why You Should Get Onboard With Coworking Spaces in Academics
Remote and hybrid work is on the rise, and along with this change comes the discussion of coworking spaces and the lack of privacy inherent in them. A coworking space is a shared area that is, by definition, neutral. People come together in this area to work on different projects, or teams meet in this […]
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Embrace a Hybridized Workspace for Better Research Engagement
Technology can be an incredible thing. Much of what researchers are doing today is intended to make the world a little easier for all of us, and it couldn’t come at a better time. We could start listing the myriad ways the average person is already dealing with too much stress on their plate, beginning […]
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Steps for Explaining Research Findings to Non-Academics
You’ve spent years of your life adjusting your writing to account for the strict requirements of your professors, the examiners on your doctorate board, and peer reviewers for publishing journals. Now, you’re expected to “dumb” your work down so that non-academics can understand it. How can you find a balance without doing double work and […]
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Unique Ways That Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Life Sciences
Two decades ago, today’s artificial intelligence technology that we take for granted would have been considered wild, unbelievable science fiction. While we still haven’t mastered things like flying cars, the evolution of life science with artificial intelligence driving the wheel has shifted significantly since the Human Genome Project in the ‘90s. The revolution that followed […]
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Tips for Crafting a Persuasive Book Proposal for Academics
No matter what kind of author you are, if you want your work published, you’ll eventually have to deal with the publishing industry and writing a book proposal. But writing a book on an academic subject, scholarly literature, is entirely different than submitting a creative, fictional work or attempting to get a manuscript published in […]
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4 Strategies for Surviving As an Academic During a University Merger
Mergers in corporations are common, but they also occur in institutional settings. It’s not as typical to see a merger between colleges, but there are many reasons they can happen. The main catalyst behind most mergers, regardless of the industry they occur in, is financial. The COVID-19 pandemic set a lot of corporate and university […]