Hi, Let me thank you for your suggestions. Few of your videos were so helpful. I got hired as a postdoc (my first one post PhD) in the completely another field from my PhD. And I always wanted to work in this field. Fantastic group, one of the best university and new life in new country! Thanks so much:) Cheers, Madhuri
Thanks for sharing this point. When I find something difficult to understand (far from my field) I just ignore it and say internally to my self "A scientist is trained to be a logically skeptical, smart thinker, and critical evaluator not be an encyclopedia". That's how I keep calm with myself and others. 😄
Thanks for sharing. Seems like a very good and healthy approach - as long as you're not missing important things that you will need to understand to help your research. :)
Actually I use to get stucked a lot in my readings because I would like to deeply understand what the paper is about. This is frustrating from time to time so I am trying to develop a new reading method (e.g. Read the abstract an conclusions and then decide to proceed or not based on the relevance of the paper to my research. If it is relevant then I try to get a taste of what they do). However being a postdoc I am not quite exprienced in doing that, hence I am looking for a way to make it less stressful and more enjoyable.
Right, this is one step before, where you decide if and to what depth you're going to read this paper. The video here starts with the paper having come up in a lab meeting and/ or you've already decided that it's relevant. What you state here makes absolute sense; you should definitely screen papers for relevance!
Can you talk more about leadership in academia? Tips to become independent researcher and later building own research group slowly..?
Thanks:)
Thanks; great suggestion! I will think about it as a topic for an upcoming video. :)
Hi,
Let me thank you for your suggestions. Few of your videos were so helpful. I got hired as a postdoc (my first one post PhD) in the completely another field from my PhD. And I always wanted to work in this field. Fantastic group, one of the best university and new life in new country! Thanks so much:)
Cheers,
Madhuri
Thanks very much, and best of luck with your new postdoc appointment!
Thanks for sharing this point.
When I find something difficult to understand (far from my field) I just ignore it and say internally to my self "A scientist is trained to be a logically skeptical, smart thinker, and critical evaluator not be an encyclopedia". That's how I keep calm with myself and others. 😄
Thanks for sharing. Seems like a very good and healthy approach - as long as you're not missing important things that you will need to understand to help your research. :)
Actually I use to get stucked a lot in my readings because I would like to deeply understand what the paper is about. This is frustrating from time to time so I am trying to develop a new reading method (e.g. Read the abstract an conclusions and then decide to proceed or not based on the relevance of the paper to my research. If it is relevant then I try to get a taste of what they do). However being a postdoc I am not quite exprienced in doing that, hence I am looking for a way to make it less stressful and more enjoyable.
Right, this is one step before, where you decide if and to what depth you're going to read this paper. The video here starts with the paper having come up in a lab meeting and/ or you've already decided that it's relevant. What you state here makes absolute sense; you should definitely screen papers for relevance!
Great video with a lot of useful advices! Thanks!
Thanks so much!