Back at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with @davalamo.bsky.social running a #NarrativeCV workshop for CREAF (Centro de Investigación Ecológica y Aplicaciones Forestales).
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With @davalamo.bsky.social discussing #NarrativeCVs at ICMAB/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Cover positions (covering for an editor on leave) are a great way to get started in scientific editing. I know several people who thrived at journals from this starting point.
If you're a good fit for the editor role, there will be a path forward when the cover ends
cc @davalamo.bsky.social

Many journals and funders have very strict guidelines forbidding the use of LLM in peer review. This is something @davalamo.bsky.social discuss often with students and postdocs: it is a blatant mishandling of privileged information (aka someone else's manuscript)

For some of our Fellowsherpa workshops, @davalamo.bsky.social & I are now running online versions, like this upcoming three-day Narrative CV webinar & workshop for Academia Sinica & the EMBO Global Activities program.

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Four days in Milan: with @davalamo.bsky.social at San Raffaele working with students in our fellowship writing course.
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With @davalamo.bsky.social at Pasteur discussing fellowship writing with the early career researchers of the ANRS emerging infectious diseases (ANRS MIE) program at their "Journées scientifiques 2025".
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(photo by Sebastien Delarque)

Great to be back at @prbb.org with @davalamo.bsky.social discussing & working on narrative CV writing with participants at very diverse career stages (and very different backgrounds).
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Looking forward to returning to @prbb.org next month with @davalamo.bsky.social to run our #NarrativeCV workshop with students in the Intervals program.
#Barcelona
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With @davalamo.bsky.social doing a Narrative CV webinar for @ciimar.bsky.social (Porto).
Of all our workshops this is the most inclusive: everyone is confused about Narrative CVs, from tenured professors to undergraduate interns.
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Important work from Placzek & Blackshaw labs: Fate mapping developing chick forebrain

Suggests hypothalamus develops ventral to telencephalon/prethalamus not anterior to diencephalon

New 'tripartite hypothalamus' idea challenges the prevailing prosomere model

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While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.

Apply for our Pathway to Independence programme, a scheme supporting postdocs going on the job market in 2025 with training, mentorship, profile-raising and networking opportunities. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: https://buff.ly/3VJGgDC

Indeed! Thanks @cyrilpedia.bsky.social and @davalamo.bsky.social for this insightful workshop into Narrative CVs for the PRBB residents!

“The speed of human thought is dwarfed by the flood of information that assaults our senses. Dr. Meister and Ms. Zheng estimated that the millions of photoreceptor cells in a single eye can transmit 1.6 billion bps. In other words, we sift about one bit out of every 100 million we receive”’

It still boggles my mind that only 66 years separate these photos.

“If you were fine before (with traditional CVs), you will still be fine now”, says Thiago. “But if you were in one of the categories that were further apart from the traditional path, narrative CVs give you a better chance”.
cc @davalamo.bsky.social @prbb.org
#NarrativeCV #ResearchEvaluation

The final collaboration this year between Fellowsherpa & EMBO was this online Fellowship writing course for Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
Looking forward to 2025!

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'Led by Thiago Carvalho & @davalamo.bsky.social from Fellowsherpa, the course explored the concept of authorship, the accountability that comes with it, and why therefore, a generative AI tool like ChatGPT could not be considered an author of a paper.'
- Maruxa Martínez-Campos @prbb.org