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I MADE A VEST (some assembly required).
All done!
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"What the fuck?"
no, "Watch the Phacus".
Take a 30 second scrolling break to watch these little algae swim.
So during my last job hunt I found a legit headhunter in my field (more or less) (legit meaning they only charge once you actually have a job they helped you get, and usually they charge the company, not you), who took me on as a client.
While it never panned out exactly, she did help me with some resume stuff and gave me pseudo pep-talks and advice for a half hour every week, which really helped my mental health. (Job hunting is a slog at best, and amplifies all my mental health issues x10)
I was very lucky, obv., but head hunters aren't too hard to find linkdin so it may be worth your while to shoot a message to a couple of the ones that look more legit.
(I know this is akin to 'just stop feeling sad' advice, but alas it is the only job hunting advice I have. It took 6 months and 2 000 aplications to get my first in-field job, and a lucky referral from a friend for my second)
So far I haven't had good luck with Jon fair and headhunter type interactions but I'm glad it worked out for you eventually!
Having recently been made redundant and now looking for jobs, I would just like to say "Woo! You can do this!" But also "yes, it's demoralising. Get cuddles"
As a funny story I got 2% and 99% in the judgement tests for similar roles from the same company. So who knows what's going on
Honestly I don't think anyone knows what's going on. I'm still applying for ecology and science jobs but also for bank teller and funeral director positions. My FOAD list is getting very long.
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If you're an adult and bought packaged bread from any Loblaws or an affiliated chain from 2001 to 2021 you are eligible to get some compensation from the class action settlement but the deadline is next month!
https://www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca/
Source:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/claim-your-slice-of-a-500-million-bread-price-fixing-settlement-before-the-december-deadline/
Canadian followers who don't watch the news. Yes, this is small potatoes for a big company who almost got away with this shit but it's better than nothing. 2 days left to submit.
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I've recently had people ask politely why a researcher would take a job with a lab or organization that didn't pay then fairly or didn't align with their personal values. This is why.
Publishing research in reputable journals is EXPENSIVE. Without a lab or organization to pay this fee, most individuals could never publish. And with the "push to publish" and publications being one of the only things on your resume that hiring folks look at, it's a lose-lose situation.
It it absolutely a rigged game. It's pay to play. And orgs that are trying to promote Open Knowledge and free public data access are getting it in the neck from all sides. The idea of "being published in a reputable journal" as a benchmark for acceptability is more a measure of compliance than anything. Compliance with your lab or PI's directives, their compliance with journal demands, the journal editor's compliance with oversight and editorial boards...
I'm incredibly lucky to be in a dept and with a supervisor who supports risk and social innovation. I'm having fun looking for alternative methods of knowledge mobilization, in addition to journal articles - public talks, a graphic novel of my eventual thesis, a video project - but I don't imagine any of that will make much difference to a future position that requires a track record of increasingly prominent publications.
Not to mention what this set-up does for the quality of Science!
Let's say you do a thesis experiment and find out that the thing you thought would have an effect does not have an effect! That's good science! Good new information! But no journal wants a paper titled "Thing we though did something does nothing" so you either restart your thesis and put your life on pause or reframe the data and try to publish in less and less "punchy" journals.