Rachel Coulthard-Graf
@rachelcg.bsky.social
Fellows' Skills and Career Development Lead @embl
Posts about scientific careers, skills for researchers and research culture.
Views my own
Posts about scientific careers, skills for researchers and research culture.
Views my own
Thinking about moving from academia into IT and software?
Join our @embl.org & @biont-training.bsky.social Career Webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET, with speakers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs):
💡 Toni Wagner – vAudience (DE)
💡 Helena Vela – Do IT Now (ES)
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Join our @embl.org & @biont-training.bsky.social Career Webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET, with speakers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs):
💡 Toni Wagner – vAudience (DE)
💡 Helena Vela – Do IT Now (ES)
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Thinking about moving from academia into IT and software?
Join our @embl.org & @biont-training.bsky.social Career Webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET, with speakers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs):
💡 Toni Wagner – vAudience (DE)
💡 Helena Vela – Do IT Now (ES)
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Join our @embl.org & @biont-training.bsky.social Career Webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET, with speakers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs):
💡 Toni Wagner – vAudience (DE)
💡 Helena Vela – Do IT Now (ES)
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Our @embl.org Skills & Career Webinars are restarting for autumn/winter 2025 - first up on 22 Oct: Jacobo Miranda on ‘Project Management with AI: Blending Human Insights and Machine Support.’ More details & registration link at www.embl.org/about/info/e...
September 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our @embl.org Skills & Career Webinars are restarting for autumn/winter 2025 - first up on 22 Oct: Jacobo Miranda on ‘Project Management with AI: Blending Human Insights and Machine Support.’ More details & registration link at www.embl.org/about/info/e...
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An overlooked aspect of becoming a scientist is realizing that you have a particular brand; a unique approach, an attraction to a certain kind of problem and a set of connections that you like to make. Uri calls it finding your internal tuning fork.
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17 | Uri Alon and our internal tuning fork
Podcast Episode · Night Science · 05/31/2022 · 40m
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August 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
An overlooked aspect of becoming a scientist is realizing that you have a particular brand; a unique approach, an attraction to a certain kind of problem and a set of connections that you like to make. Uri calls it finding your internal tuning fork.
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Are you a #postdoc looking for a supportive community of peers to help you navigate the postdoctoral experience and next stage in your career? Considering joining @futurepislack.bsky.social or checking out the resources linked on their website!
futurepislack.wordpress.com
futurepislack.wordpress.com
Future PI Slack
A peer support group for postdocs on academic track
futurepislack.wordpress.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Are you a #postdoc looking for a supportive community of peers to help you navigate the postdoctoral experience and next stage in your career? Considering joining @futurepislack.bsky.social or checking out the resources linked on their website!
futurepislack.wordpress.com
futurepislack.wordpress.com
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Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster
Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026?
#EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics
Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026?
#EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics
July 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster
Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026?
#EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics
Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026?
#EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
Since I'm blathering about (my own) scientific writing this morning, I'm reminded to remind you that I made a starter pack of folks who post about the history, practice, and craft of scientific writing: go.bsky.app/TwZVnjU
You can get some good advice from folks on this list!
You can get some good advice from folks on this list!
July 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Since I'm blathering about (my own) scientific writing this morning, I'm reminded to remind you that I made a starter pack of folks who post about the history, practice, and craft of scientific writing: go.bsky.app/TwZVnjU
You can get some good advice from folks on this list!
You can get some good advice from folks on this list!
Looking for practical tips for making your science accessible & engaging to diverse audiences? Join our next @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar with guest speaker @shreyaghosh.bsky.social, Communications Editor at EMBL.
Register now to join us on 16 July: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register now to join us on 16 July: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Looking for practical tips for making your science accessible & engaging to diverse audiences? Join our next @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar with guest speaker @shreyaghosh.bsky.social, Communications Editor at EMBL.
Register now to join us on 16 July: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register now to join us on 16 July: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
More new contributions to fellowships and research job applications! @minyaaa.bsky.social @morgancarterphd.bsky.social @benrlee.com and more github.com/RILAB/statem...
GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants
Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.
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June 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
More new contributions to fellowships and research job applications! @minyaaa.bsky.social @morgancarterphd.bsky.social @benrlee.com and more github.com/RILAB/statem...
Planning an academic career and want to boost your interview skills?
Join the @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar:
Interview Skills: Hiring and Being Hired in Academia
🗓️ 16 June | 11:00–12:00 CEST
Three academic group leaders will share their practical insights.
👉 www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Join the @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar:
Interview Skills: Hiring and Being Hired in Academia
🗓️ 16 June | 11:00–12:00 CEST
Three academic group leaders will share their practical insights.
👉 www.embl.org/about/info/e...
June 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Planning an academic career and want to boost your interview skills?
Join the @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar:
Interview Skills: Hiring and Being Hired in Academia
🗓️ 16 June | 11:00–12:00 CEST
Three academic group leaders will share their practical insights.
👉 www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Join the @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar:
Interview Skills: Hiring and Being Hired in Academia
🗓️ 16 June | 11:00–12:00 CEST
Three academic group leaders will share their practical insights.
👉 www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Great news for early career researchers with longer postdoc projects: from 2027 the ERC Starting Grant eligibility criteria will be extended to 10-years PhD defense.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
erc.europa.eu
June 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Great news for early career researchers with longer postdoc projects: from 2027 the ERC Starting Grant eligibility criteria will be extended to 10-years PhD defense.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
Interested in research infrastructures career?
The #ARISE2 Fellowship Programme might be right for you.
MSCA funded, the programme supports STEM researchers in becoming leaders in research infrastructures, driving innovation in life sciences 🧪
🗓️ Call opening: 30 June
www.embl.org/training/ari...
The #ARISE2 Fellowship Programme might be right for you.
MSCA funded, the programme supports STEM researchers in becoming leaders in research infrastructures, driving innovation in life sciences 🧪
🗓️ Call opening: 30 June
www.embl.org/training/ari...
May 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Interested in research infrastructures career?
The #ARISE2 Fellowship Programme might be right for you.
MSCA funded, the programme supports STEM researchers in becoming leaders in research infrastructures, driving innovation in life sciences 🧪
🗓️ Call opening: 30 June
www.embl.org/training/ari...
The #ARISE2 Fellowship Programme might be right for you.
MSCA funded, the programme supports STEM researchers in becoming leaders in research infrastructures, driving innovation in life sciences 🧪
🗓️ Call opening: 30 June
www.embl.org/training/ari...
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📣 Conference Announcement! Till Strowig, @lisamaierlab.bsky.social and I have organized a stellar lineup of speakers from different corners of the Microbiome field for the 17th SeeOn Conference in picturesque Bavaria. Open to all! Abstracts due April 6th. Spread the news! www.dghm.org/seeon/
Seeon - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie
Microbiota, Probiotics and Host → Flyer 17th Seeon Conference Registration (click here for registration) The steering committee of the “Microbiota, Probiotics and Host”- group warmly invites you t...
www.dghm.org
March 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
📣 Conference Announcement! Till Strowig, @lisamaierlab.bsky.social and I have organized a stellar lineup of speakers from different corners of the Microbiome field for the 17th SeeOn Conference in picturesque Bavaria. Open to all! Abstracts due April 6th. Spread the news! www.dghm.org/seeon/
👇TODAY 11:00 Central European Time (in 2 hours).
Learn about a great career option for those who enjoy discussing science with a wide range of researchers but no longer wish to work at the bench.
embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Learn about a great career option for those who enjoy discussing science with a wide range of researchers but no longer wish to work at the bench.
embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
👇TODAY 11:00 Central European Time (in 2 hours).
Learn about a great career option for those who enjoy discussing science with a wide range of researchers but no longer wish to work at the bench.
embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Learn about a great career option for those who enjoy discussing science with a wide range of researchers but no longer wish to work at the bench.
embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Interested in careers at the academia-industry interface?
Join our @embl.org careers webinar this Friday at 11:00 CET to explore roles that let you:
✅ Build cross-sector collaborations
✅ Shape research strategy
✅ Connect science & business
Free & open to all
Join our @embl.org careers webinar this Friday at 11:00 CET to explore roles that let you:
✅ Build cross-sector collaborations
✅ Shape research strategy
✅ Connect science & business
Free & open to all
February 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Interested in careers at the academia-industry interface?
Join our @embl.org careers webinar this Friday at 11:00 CET to explore roles that let you:
✅ Build cross-sector collaborations
✅ Shape research strategy
✅ Connect science & business
Free & open to all
Join our @embl.org careers webinar this Friday at 11:00 CET to explore roles that let you:
✅ Build cross-sector collaborations
✅ Shape research strategy
✅ Connect science & business
Free & open to all
🚀 Exploring career paths in and beyond academia?
Since 2020, @embl.org Careers Webinars have hosted 69 speakers from 19 countries and 4600+ attendees.
Next up:
Strategic Alliances & Industry Partnerships
📅 21 Feb, 11:00 CET
Learn more & register:
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Since 2020, @embl.org Careers Webinars have hosted 69 speakers from 19 countries and 4600+ attendees.
Next up:
Strategic Alliances & Industry Partnerships
📅 21 Feb, 11:00 CET
Learn more & register:
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
February 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🚀 Exploring career paths in and beyond academia?
Since 2020, @embl.org Careers Webinars have hosted 69 speakers from 19 countries and 4600+ attendees.
Next up:
Strategic Alliances & Industry Partnerships
📅 21 Feb, 11:00 CET
Learn more & register:
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Since 2020, @embl.org Careers Webinars have hosted 69 speakers from 19 countries and 4600+ attendees.
Next up:
Strategic Alliances & Industry Partnerships
📅 21 Feb, 11:00 CET
Learn more & register:
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
For the past 3 fall semesters (2022-2024) I have led a series for Virginia Tech (and recently UNC) graduate students on pursuing a postdoc proactively. I distilled some takeaways from those sessions in this recent piece @insidehighered.com:
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
How to prepare proactively for a postdoc (opinion)
These are some actions a Ph.D. student can take to pave the way for a positive postdoc experience, Chris Smith writes.
www.insidehighered.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For the past 3 fall semesters (2022-2024) I have led a series for Virginia Tech (and recently UNC) graduate students on pursuing a postdoc proactively. I distilled some takeaways from those sessions in this recent piece @insidehighered.com:
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
New posting! I was recently part of an @embl.org #Careers webinar to discuss #MedComms, & why this might be the best career option for scientists who enjoy the writing/communicating/organising aspects of the job the most 🤩 Extended transcript of the Q&A session below.👇
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The magic of MedComms: an EMBL Careers Webinar
Medical Communications (MedComms) might just be the best industry career option out there for scientists who most enjoy the writing/communicating/organising parts of the job, and on 22nd November 2…
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January 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New posting! I was recently part of an @embl.org #Careers webinar to discuss #MedComms, & why this might be the best career option for scientists who enjoy the writing/communicating/organising aspects of the job the most 🤩 Extended transcript of the Q&A session below.👇
wp.me/p76cuy-QQ
wp.me/p76cuy-QQ
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Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
wellcomeopenresearch.org
January 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
Three tenure track positions at Stockholm: "... focus should be on patterns and processes that previously have been difficult to study, but now are possible due to recent advances in areas such as sequencing, AI, imaging, mass spectrometry, tomography and exposomics."
Come be my colleague! Three tenure track positions open at Stockholm University. Great start-up packages & environment for evolution and biodiversity research!
Anyone looking for an assistant professor position in biodiversity research? Not one but three positions available at Stockholm U:
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January 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Three tenure track positions at Stockholm: "... focus should be on patterns and processes that previously have been difficult to study, but now are possible due to recent advances in areas such as sequencing, AI, imaging, mass spectrometry, tomography and exposomics."
Calling group leaders in the life sciences! We're collecting examples of successful job application materials for a career workshop for postdocs applying to academic roles. Interested in sharing your materials? Drop us a line at fellows_careers@embl.org & we'll send you further info.
December 18, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Calling group leaders in the life sciences! We're collecting examples of successful job application materials for a career workshop for postdocs applying to academic roles. Interested in sharing your materials? Drop us a line at fellows_careers@embl.org & we'll send you further info.
Curious about industry R&D? Maria Fälth Savitski, Head of Computational Biology Boehringer Ingelheim, shared her career journey, insights into collaborative research in industry, and tips for early-career researchers with the @embl.org Careers Blog: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
December 17, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Curious about industry R&D? Maria Fälth Savitski, Head of Computational Biology Boehringer Ingelheim, shared her career journey, insights into collaborative research in industry, and tips for early-career researchers with the @embl.org Careers Blog: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
A renewed reminder to anyone applying for a PhD or postdoc position in a lab--indicate your interest in the email/cover letter by talking a bit about that lab's work and why it would be a good fit. I answer any query that includes this information but do not answer those that do not.
December 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM
A renewed reminder to anyone applying for a PhD or postdoc position in a lab--indicate your interest in the email/cover letter by talking a bit about that lab's work and why it would be a good fit. I answer any query that includes this information but do not answer those that do not.
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
Applications open for a new cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social *Pathway to Independence* fellows
Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market?
Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring?
Spread the word
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market?
Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring?
Spread the word
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
Development's Pathway to Independence programme
Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...
journals.biologists.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Applications open for a new cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social *Pathway to Independence* fellows
Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market?
Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring?
Spread the word
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market?
Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring?
Spread the word
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
"I made a conscious choice to switch from dancing to research and I don’t regret it at all"
In this interview, Maria Rostovskaya shares her story from being a dancer to a senior scientist @babrahaminst.bsky.social, working on human #DevBio:
thenode.biologists.com/i-made-a-con...
In this interview, Maria Rostovskaya shares her story from being a dancer to a senior scientist @babrahaminst.bsky.social, working on human #DevBio:
thenode.biologists.com/i-made-a-con...
December 2, 2024 at 10:11 AM
"I made a conscious choice to switch from dancing to research and I don’t regret it at all"
In this interview, Maria Rostovskaya shares her story from being a dancer to a senior scientist @babrahaminst.bsky.social, working on human #DevBio:
thenode.biologists.com/i-made-a-con...
In this interview, Maria Rostovskaya shares her story from being a dancer to a senior scientist @babrahaminst.bsky.social, working on human #DevBio:
thenode.biologists.com/i-made-a-con...
Reposted by Rachel Coulthard-Graf
Which one are you?
Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
–Peter Medawar
Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
–Peter Medawar
November 29, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Which one are you?
Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
–Peter Medawar
Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
–Peter Medawar