Weekly Highlights – 28th August 2015

Posted on August 27, 2015

Upcoming Events:

Sept 9

Get Powerful: Achieving influence, a MASS-AWIS Seminar
Click on link for more details

Sept 15

Futures in Life Sciences: Big Data Careers
(One of our former postdocs, Viktoria is a panelist!)

Saturday, Sept 19th

Sarah Cardozo Duncan: the Career Strategist’s guide to finding a job after your PhD.
A Career Development Workshop

12pm – 4pm
Behrakis Auditorium, Jaharis Building, Boston campus,  150 Harrison Ave, Boston MA 02111

• Identify your best skills to fit your dream job and how to leverage them
• Learn how to network from a pro!
• Includes a free lunch!

12pm – 4pm, Jaharis Auditorium, Boston campus,  150 Harrison Ave, Boston MA 02111

Register for free HERE!

Thursday, Sept 24th

Postdoctoral Office Poster Competition

9am – 11:30am
Sackler 114, Boston Campus

The event will be a great opportunity for postdocs across all of Tufts to come together and present a poster showcasing their research! First and second place winners in junior and senior categories will receive a travel award to be used towards travel to a meeting or conference. First place awards will be $1,000 and second place will be $500. Please contact Sara for entry form and guidelines. Entries are due by September 16th. Please send completed applications and any queries to Sara: Sara.Abbott@tufts.edu

Take your PI to lunch (Boston campus)

12pm – 1pm
Sackler 216A

Bring your PI to a nice lunch to celebrate postdocs or come by yourself!
Please register with Sara: Sara.Abbott@tufts.edu

Friday, Sept 25th

Take your PI to lunch (Medford campus)

12pm – 1pm
Aidekman Arts Center, Remis Sculpture Court

Bring your PI to a nice lunch to celebrate postdocs or come by yourself!
Please register with Sara: Sara.Abbott@tufts.edu

Aeronaut Brewery Tour

5:30pm – 8:30pm
14 Tyler St
Somerville, MA, 02143

Join the Tufts Postdoctoral Association in celebrating the end of Postdoc Appreciation Week!  We’ll be touring the inner workings of the Aeronaut Brewing Co. and then sampling their wares (try a craft beer on us) and dining on the finest local pizza!

It’s going to be a fun night of the science of brewing, enjoying great beer and company.   Come and meet your fellow postdocs!  Significant others are welcome at this social event.

Tours are available 5:30pm – 6pm and 6pm – 6:30pm.

You can register online HERE. Cost is $19.45 and includes the tour, a craft beer and pizza. Password is pstdocslovebeer

Please note, you can also register and pay for the tour in person via cash (only $17.50) at the Boston and Medford campuses and save yourself the processing fees! Please see the following locations. Please bring correct change!

Boston campus: Jaharis cafe, Mon 8/31 & Wed 9/2 from 12pm – 1pm (Ania – anna.wronski@tufts.edu)
Medford campus: 8/28 from 12:30pm-1:30pm at 200 Boston Ave, 4th floor lounge and 9/1 from 3:30pm-4pm in the Barnum lobby (Sarah – sarah.dykstra@tufts.edu).

Posts from our Facebook page:

Career development:

• Taking my Parents to College (a great essay with helpful insights into understanding classroom experiences) by the New York Times
• A week in the life of: Benjamin Levitt (Friday) – Editor at Springer Press by PhDs at Work
• Advice for the first year on the tenure track by The Professor is In
• Online collaboration: Scientists and the Social network by Nature News
• How to stop overplanning (even it you’re a perfectionist) by Harvard Business Review
• Why the best grad students make the worst job candidates via LinkedIn
• What it’s like to get your PhD in Science by Slate
• $10 National Postdoc Association Membership Drive: Convert your Tufts Affiliate membership to full membership for just $10.
• Career Lingo: “Ability to teach the following…” by Chronicle Vitae
• Ode to scientists on visas and permits by Olga Degtyareva
• 3 Keys to transitioning into industry by Cheeky Scientist
• Effective Laboratory Management by ASBMB
• Advice from MCB-funded Investigators to young scientists by MCB
• [Book Review] What color is your parachute? 2016 by PhDs at Work
• Papers with shorter titles get more citations by Nature News & Comment
• Latest issue of POSTDOCket by NPA
• Top STEM jobs: 8 science and tech careers in high demand by AOL
• UW struggle: Scrap the Tenure File Edition by Chuck Rybak
• 25% discount on SciPhD Online Self Assessment Training Course. Now only $14.95 for National Postdoc Association Members (NB: All Tufts Postdocs are Affiliate members!)

Lab Resources:

• Plasmids 101 – Info for newbie cloners to experienced gene jockeys by Addgene.

News/Opinions

• What’s your burning science-careers question? A survey by Naturejobs blog
• Working long hours is linked to significantly higher risk of stroke by ScienceAlert
• Adjunct Faculty: Highly educated, working hard for society and struggling to survive by American Psychology Association blog
• The Widening world of hand-picked truths by NY Times
• White House Office of Management and Budget wants feedback on reducing federal grant reporting burden

Fun

• Next Generation Sequencing Animation: featuring Justin Bieber and Chuck Norris

Job Opportunities:

• Rancho Biosciences are looking for exceptional curators with backgrounds in genetics, biology & diseases. Viktoria is a former Tufts postdoc!