Itās a little funny that networking is one of the most critical skills you can have in hard science.
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Sergio@piefed.social āØ20ā© āØhoursā© agoThe one "secret" I wish I'd known a lot earlier is that you don't have to do it alone. In fact, the more you collaborate the more successful you'll be: more research ideas, more publications, more committee memberships in workshops/conferences, more participating on teams being put together to apply for research funding, more people to reach out to when you're looking for a job, etc. The most successful scientists I've known had huge networks of collaborators.
nomy@lemmy.zip āØ11ā© āØhoursā© ago
Sergio@piefed.social āØ10ā© āØhoursā© ago
The dangerous thing is that you can, in many science fields, get a PhD with minimal collaboration. Just pass the quals and focus on your disseration project, there you go. But you'll be at a tremendous disadvantage during a faculty search, when you're up against all those people who did internships early in their career, kept those research connections, led research projects in the local lab, joined student groups at conferences and helped organize a student workshop, reviewed for conferences, helped out on projects with people you met at conferences, contributed to funding proposals, etc.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today āØ9ā© āØhoursā© ago
One of the reasons my friend is in the position heās in now is because he built a really good relationship with a couple people from the university of Tokyo when he was a grad student in Hawaii.