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🎤 MEET THE EXPERT: Introducing our Guest Speaker for Episode 1!
To master world-class databases, you need to learn directly from the scientists who manage them. For our opening session on The AlphaFold Database, we are incredibly honored to host an expert from the core EMBL-EBI team in Cambridge, UK!
👤 Speaker: Razan Abbara
💼 Role: Training Specialist for the AlphaFold data base (AFDB)
🏛️ Institution: European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), United Kingdom
Our distinguished speaker will take us behind the scenes of how hundreds of millions of AI-predicted models are curated, cross-referenced, and optimized for global research workflows.
This isn't just a passive lecture, this is your direct channel to get your pipeline bottlenecks answered during our interactive live Q&A session. Bring your project questions, your structural anomalies, and your curiosity!
💡 Pro-Tip: Read up on the difference between AlphaFold's pLDDT and structural experimental data from the PDB archive tonight so you can ask highly targeted questions in the chat!
🔗 Don't miss this opportunity. Secure your virtual seat here: forms.gle/3JNnHHS6WCyLXF5F8 #Bioinformatics #MeetTheSpeaker #EMBLEBI #PDBe #AlphaFoldDB #StructuralBiology #AIBiology #DataScience #PostdocLife #GraduateResearch #RSGs #ComputationalBiologist
@RSG_nigeria @rsg_pak @ISCB_RSG_India @iscb @RSGBangladesh @RSG_KOREA @emblebi
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🚨 Red flags that get manuscripts desk-rejected:
❌ Unclear research question
❌ Weak methodology description
❌ Missing key citations
❌ Lack of important details
All fixable BEFORE submission.
Get a Ph.D.-level scientific review in minutes
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May 27
Small Experiments is for you if:
→ You're a PhD student or postdoc who isn't sure what kind of career you actually want → You're a faculty member who feels like you're playing the game right, but something's missing → You've been saying "one day I'll try that" for longer than you want to admit
The book doesn't tell you what to do with your career. It gives you a method for figuring it out yourself, through action, not more analysis.
Free on Kindle through Friday: amazon.com/dp/B0GF7BQ3K8
#AcademicCareer #PhDCommunity #PostdocLife #FacultyLife #HigherEdChat
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#Publishing #opinion pieces and commentaries is becoming increasingly difficult -- and the fundamental reason is #academia itself.
However, @TeunEverts and I wrote two #essays we believe to be relevant for #earlycareer #researchers:
(1) *How to Mentor Junior Researchers Under Structural Scarcity as a Postdoc*
and
(2) *How to realistically envision an #academic #career as a student*
We believe they give a pretty good picture and #guidance for #PhD #students and #postdocs.
Access both here:
philliphaubrock.wixsite.com/…
@MishaTeplitskiy @socratesccost #ScienceInAction #phdlife #postdoclife
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‘Should I do a postdoc?’ Former #postdocs share their stories
For some, the position can serve as a springboard. But it isn’t for everyone. #PostdocLife bit.ly/4n66yfw
ALT A person stands atop a tall directional signpost with arrows pointing in multiple directions. They are looking through a telescope, surrounded by a blue sky and white clouds.
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May 19
Today marked one of the most productive and inspiring stops of my UK tour: Edinburgh!
As a strong advocate for knowledge exchange and interdisciplinary dialogue, I had the privilege of meeting with some outstanding colleagues today. I held an incredibly insightful meeting with my esteemed colleagues, Dr. Emin Alper Yıldırım and Dr. Burak Büke, from the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. Following this, I met with Prof. Dr. Berk Canberk and his excellent team at Edinburgh Napier University to discuss recent advancements in our field, explore innovative ideas, and evaluate potential avenues for future academic synergy.
I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to them for their warm hospitality within their departments and for the invaluable discussions that have truly enriched my academic vision. 💡🌍
@EdinburghUni @EdinburghNapier #WomenInSTEM #AcademicNetworking #UniversityOfEdinburgh #EdinburghNapierUniversity #Mathematics #ComputerScience #Research #AcademicLife #Edinburgh
#PostdocLife #ResearchTrip
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🔥 Hot take:
Waiting 2 weeks for editing feedback is like waiting for dial-up internet in 2026.
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✅ Clarity and flow
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#PostdocLife #WritingTips
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Being a #postdoc in #academia, even a highly #prolific #researcher working at the level of many #professors, is the most ungrateful period in an #academic’s life. Some people thrive as postdocs: those who land good #lab s with supportive PIs, in fields with decent funding, and who use the time to deliberately build an independent profile. It can be a genuinely productive period of skill building and freedom from #teaching and service loads. But that is selection bias plus luck. The modal experience matches what you described, but I doubt this is the normal situation.
As a #PhD #student, you explore something new, you are generally being cared for, you ideally have a research agenda set out for you, and you are guided. When you are a postdoc, you most likely jump from short term contract to contract and from project to project. Meanwhile you are often seen and treated like cheap labour and like an underling. You are not a student anymore and neither are you a member of those permanently employed researchers or professors. In my opinion, the postdoc reality is the hardest time in an academic’s life. Sure, as a PhD student you encounter a new frontier felt like weekly. As a professor you have to do a lot of grant writing, #bureaucracy, and mentoring drama. You also herd your sheep and fight for every crumb of funding while sitting in committees and doing admin work. But postdocs often have to do all that together.
And the problem is clear. Academia has massively expanded PhD production while keeping permanent positions roughly fixed, turning the postdoc stage into a precarious shock absorber that supplies #universities and senior faculty with cheap, highly motivated labor, sustained by misaligned incentives, cultural inertia, and the passion and prestige narrative that keeps talented people in the system far longer than rational economics would predict.
and the worst of it: no solution in sight!
#postdoclife #phdlife #academics
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I’m very grateful for the invitation. I only wonder whether my being the author would really be an issue
#AcademicTwitter #PeerReview #PostdocLife #ReviewerProblems #PeerReviewGoneWrong #ScienceHumor
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Same system. Same pressures. Different outcomes. Why?
#UKPostdocs I’m studying psychological factors linked to burnout.
Anonymous survey (~15–20 mins).
🔗 mmu.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/for…
Thank you to everyone who has already taken part!
RT/shares appreciated!
#PostdocLife #UKAcademia
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Mar 28
@USCIS @DHSgov @WhiteHouse
Please take immediate action. #LiftTheHold #ImmigrantVoices #LegalImmigrants #H1B #SingleMom #Scientists #PostdocLife
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Mar 24
Me in the car: “Ok, so I will get in to the office and start writing straight away”
So anyway my desk is really tidy now
#PostDocLife #Science
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Mar 23
Mein erster Job in der #Akademia: Ab diesem August bin ich dann wohl allerhöchstwahrscheinlich Visiting Assistant Professor of European Studies (DAAD Professor) an der Vanderbilt University in Nashville (Tennessee). #PostDocLife #Academia
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Mar 19
🧪 Thinking about the next step after you finish your PhD?
IOCB has a lot to offer. We already have over 110 young researchers in our growing community of IOCB postdocs, 40% of them are international. If you are looking for a postdoc position at IOCB Prague, you may check the open positions below or find out more information about IOCB Fellowships!
See more ► uochb.cz/en/apply-for-postdo… 📲
#postdoc #postdocs #IOCB #IOCBPrague #czechscience #postdoclife #postdoctoral #chempostdocs
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Feb 25
Excited to embark on my next academic chapter! 🌟 Today marks the beginning of my role as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. Let the research begin! 🔬📊
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Yeni akademik yolculuğuma adım atmaktan büyük heyecan duyuyorum! 🌟 Bugün, Nottingham Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Bilimleri bölümünde Doktora Sonrası Araştırmacı olarak görevime başlıyorum. Araştırmalar başlasın! 🔬📊
#TUBITAK #Postdoc #PostdocLife
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter
#Research #ComputerScience
#WomenInSTEM #UniversityOfNottinghamjub
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“The hardest part of becoming a postdoc turned out to be learning how to leave my daughter behind,” this researcher writes.
Read this Working Life essay: bit.ly/4aQNPz6 #PostdocLife
ALT An illustrated person stands with their hands on their hips, gazing at a child in front of them. The child has curly hair. The person's shadow shows an outline of a child. A landscape with water and grass is in the background. The headline reads, "How a research trip helped me overcome separation anxiety as a new mother," with a "Working Life" label above.
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Loving Boston (yes, the snow as well). If you are around and work on similar things, or just passionate about science and would like to grab coffee and chat, DM me.
#postdoclife
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Wishing you an amazing weekend 🥰
#ScienceIsArt
#PostdocLife #Chemistry #RealTimeChem
#PostdocVoice #FluorescenceFriday #Science #CENChemPics #ChemTwitter
#chemsky #epfl
#postdoc #science
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