Rosana Zenil-Ferguson

Dr. Christie Bahlai @cbahlai.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 08, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

We've all heard about meetings that could have been emails, but have you heard of emails that could have just been quiet thoughts you keep to yourself entirely?

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 01, 2024 at 16:22 UTC

Just realized that being an assistant professor means being constantly confused and surprised about emails with pages-long instructions for tasks you didn’t know you had to complete. The lack of clarity always gets me.

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 30, 2024 at 14:06 UTC

And yes reviews are hard! ( I just had two back to back rejections of a paper that I think is the best work I’ve put out there) but this is a learning process and thankful for the people who are taking time to evaluate it.

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 30, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

There aren’t enough reviewers right now. The people giving you feedback are getting more requests, and doing this work for free on top of their many other jobs. All of this to say, it is worth spending extra time looking into the comments and assuming people evaluating your work want it to be great

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 30, 2024 at 13:48 UTC

More and more people complaining their scores in grants, reviews, feedback on their drafts, etc. when they aren’t positive. If they are offensive by all means complaining is the right thing to do, but if comments are giving you specific technical feedback that’s to make your work better.

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 30, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

I love my job and in many ways it is rewarding. Lately, my inbox has been inundated with more requests for service (a committee, a review, an external evaluation). While I frequently accept many of these tasks and complete them in my non working hours, I am disheartened to see…

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 17, 2024 at 01:54 UTC

Bonus, be ready to have unexpected meetings with folx not in your schedule. Have extra questions in your sheet that are broadly applicable to that circumstance

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 17, 2024 at 01:53 UTC

Make a small cell with that person’s research key words and key questions to ask them (research, interests in common, shared resources). Have it readily accessible in your phone and you can check in your bathroom break. 2/2

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 17, 2024 at 01:50 UTC

Take many short bathroom breaks. Good to calm and pace yourself and bring energy/protein bars to eat there. In most scheduled meals you will be talking and not eating, good to be prepared for that. Make a google sheet with the order of your meetings 1/2

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 05, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

Totally with you. I bus hit me on my bicycle in 2022. Finding and organizing appointments for the right physical therapy, tests, and specialists was a second full time job. And it is overwhelming!

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 29, 2023 at 04:05 UTC

Definitely

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