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Let’s face it, nobody likes selling themselves. Yet self-advocacy is a critical skill in any competitive job market right now, and particularly in academia. The unfortunate fact is that your access to valuable resources (funding, opportunities, positions and awards, etc.) depends on staking the claim that you and your work are brilliant, unique, and deserving of recognition. So why is it so difficult to say that? Whether it's describing yourself in an application or highligh

In my last blog post, I talked about how this year is the perfect time for academics to improve and invest in their writing because right now, great academic writing stands out more than ever before. But before you go drawing up an ambitious 72-point plan and detailed checklists for all the writing you’ll do and submit this year, take a pause. We are (as discussed in the previous post) living and working in the midst of vast and volatile changes. So not only is it perfectly

There’s been one word coming up again and again in my mind as we move into 2025: transformation. Something about this year just feels very significant already, doesn’t it? Transformation seems to be everywhere—in our lives, our fields of study, our systems, our environment, the whole world around us. Whether it’s the pace of technological change, shifting academic landscapes, or the increasing focus on personal growth, we’re clearly living in a time defined by change. A lot

Whether you’re an English grad or an Iron Maiden fan (or both, like me) you may have heard “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” at some point. In this famous poem by Coleridge, the title character and his shipmates are dying of thirst surrounded by (ocean) water, a cruel irony captured with the line “Water, water everywhere / Nor any drop to drink.” That line floated through my mind the other day as I struggled to find the answer to a relatively simple question about a tech I wa