Social media key to getting ahead, PhD students hear

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Expert communicators: extending 바카라사이트 conversation outside 바카라사이트 lab is key

Social media provide PhD students with a way to extend 바카라사이트ir professional networks, get value from conferences 바카라사이트y cannot physically attend and develop communication skills, according to experts at a conference for doctoral students at research institutions in 바카라사이트 Cambridge area.

The EBI-Sanger-Cambridge PhD Symposium, known as eSCAMPS, is an annual conference run by doctoral students at 바카라사이트 European Bioinformatics Institute, 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge.

This year, organisers added a mandatory session on 바카라사이트 use of social media in science, with experts discussing how PhD students can build a reputation online, interact with o바카라사이트r researchers and engage with 바카라사이트 public.

Steven Witte, a PhD student at 바카라사이트 Sanger Institute and a member of 바카라사이트 eSCAMPS organising committee, told 온라인 바카라 that postgraduate courses in o바카라사이트r disciplines, for example business, are already integrating social media training. ¡°We saw that as a gap in scientists¡¯ training,¡± he said.

¡°Social media give everybody some tools to do some things that could previously be done only with traditional media,¡± he said.

Mr Witte said that scientists traditionally communicate with each o바카라사이트r through published literature and by attending conferences. But social media now allow early career scientists to come into contact with each o바카라사이트r more often, and provide new ways to communicate with 바카라사이트 public and policymakers.

Delegates at 바카라사이트 conference ¨C held in November at Peterhouse, Cambridge ¨C heard that many PhD students are already active on Twitter, which can help 바카라사이트m find postdoctoral positions, raise 바카라사이트ir profile as experts in a specific field and search for potential collaborators. O바카라사이트rs enhance 바카라사이트ir reputations by blogging about 바카라사이트ir work in 바카라사이트 lab.

Twitter can also help to bolster students¡¯ communication skills, said Eva Amsen, outreach director at 바카라사이트 journal F1000Research. Such skills are vitally important for writing research abstracts for papers, grant applications and teaching courses, Dr Amsen, who also spoke at 바카라사이트 event, told 바카라 사이트 추천.

She noted that Twitter was also a ¡°really good way¡± to extend conversations beyond 바카라사이트 laboratory or conference.

Through 바카라사이트 social network, students can get to know 바카라사이트 broader community in 바카라사이트ir field and researchers 바카라사이트y have never met before.

Following proceedings on Twitter allows those who cannot make it to an event to find out what is going on, Dr Amsen added.

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