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Cindy Hovington – Bringing Science-Based Advice to the Public Arena

In your life as a student or as a researcher, you may hear discouraging voices telling you you’re not good enough, not intelligent enough, or even not man enough for the task or project at hand. In today’s episode, we’re talking with Cindy Hovington, founder of CuriousNeuron.com, about why it is important to distance yourself from these opinions, to listen to your own inner voice and your own will, but also to take in account input coming from people who have more than a unidimensional impression of your personality and your abilities.
Cindy did her Ph.D. in neuroscience at McGill University, in Montreal, where she focused on the cognitive and emotional difficulties experienced in people with psychosis. She volunteered with a program called BrainReach at McGill and this how she came to love knowledge translation. She then decided to pursue a postdoc in education and studied the impact of knowledge translation in the community. In parallel, she launched her company – Curious Neuron – a resource for parents and caregivers that provides science-backed info about child development and education where she has been able to merge both of her fields of study.
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What you’ll learn about in this episode:
How teaching and popularizing science to a lay audience can help you get a better grasp and tell a better story of your research subject
How a PhD or a postdoc allows you to develop the skills you need for your life projects, even if they fall outside of the academic realm
The important role volunteering can play opening different professional vistas for you during grad school
Transferrable skills you develop during a PhD
The part perseverance and resilience play in obtaining a doctoral degree and the reality of a multifaceted intelligence
Why it is crucial to encourage girls to go into STEM domains, if that’s where their interests lay
This episode’s pearls of wisdom:
“As grad students, we have a lot of presentations, but they are presentations that we give to other grad students, and researchers. But it was so different to be in the classroom and communicate what a neuron is to a child who is in grade 3. So when I was doing that as a volunteer, that's when it hits you: if I don't know what I'm talking about, if I don't know what a neuron is or how it communicates with other neurons, I can't talk about it to an 8 year-old or a 9 year-old. So, if you can explain something to a 9 year-old, you really understand what you're doing.”
“Don’t be afraid to merge different fields.”
“After finishing, I really changed in terms of my internal talk, you know – that negative internal self-talk became 'I can do anything I want'. Anything you want is at your grasp – you could just get it as long as you work for it.”
Cindy’s links: LinkedIn – Linkedin.com/in/cindyhovington; Twitter – Twitter.com/curious_neuron; Instagram – Instagram.com/curious_neuron; Facebook – Facebook.com/curiousneuron; Website – CuriousNeuron.com; Podcast – Anchor.fm/cindy632
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Margaret Magdesian – Finding Balance in the Eye of the Storm

How easy is it to be a female scientist? How easy is it to be a female founder and CEO? How easy is it to find work/life balance when you wear both of these hats and are building a family, too? In this episode, you will be hearing from Margaret Magdesian, founder and CEO of Ananda Devices, about her academic path, about how she transitioned to the biotech startup space, and about her answers to these important questions.
Margaret Magdesian is a scientist-entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in biopharmaceutical research. In collaboration with researchers from McGill University, she has developed a great technology to rapidly grow human nervous-system-on-a-chip. Seeing the potential of this technology to accelerate drug development, in 2015 she raised funds with investors and launched the company Ananda Devices. The company has since won over 25 grants and awards in science and innovation including the 2016 Top 10 Quebec Discovery of the Year, the 2018 Top 7 SheEO in Canada, 2018 Canadian Export Challenge and 2019 Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards.
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What you’ll learn about in this episode:
The differences between research in academia and in the startup context
The importance of understanding your risks when embarking on a project, be it academic or entrepreneurial
How university-based awards and programs can boost you in your startup project stemming from academic research
The culture differences between academia and industry
The value and social impact women can bring to the entrepreneurial arena
The importance of being able to articulate your research in lay terms and adapt your communications to each different audience
This episode’s pearls of wisdom:
“When we finish a PhD, we know how to get information. When someone talks to you about a new genetic approach, you know how to go to PubMed and go deep down. So what we really learn from a PhD is how to get information. I’m very disciplined – I looked for books about financial budgets, scaling up, how to hire people, I read one about introverts and leadership, so several books that really relate to me.”
“What drives me every morning to go to work is the big goal, a sense of mission – why am I doing this? Sometimes it seems overwhelming because there’s so much to do… But it’s ok, I have a mission. Just grab some paper and step by step – what I ‘m going to do first, second, third. And this is how you organize things and then move along, you know? And it’s so nice everyday that you tick a box. You see the mission coming, and it’s so much more exciting than depressing.”
Margaret’s links: LinkedIn – Linkedin.com/in/margaret-magdesian-89954036; Website – Anandadevices.com; SheEO – SheEO.world; TEDx talk – Youtu.be/xNYq6PwMV0U; McGill Dobson Cup –  McGill.ca/dobson/entrepreneurship-programs/mcgill-dobson-cup
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Drew Slack – Powering Through Change with Drive and Positivity

What happens when you have all your ducks lined up and the universe throws you a curveball? That’s the moment when you have to regroup, reflect deeply on what you want the new path that is opening up to you to look like and trace a game plan that will allow you to come out winning. Drew Slack was well on his way towards a life in the professoriate when his curveball arrived. In today’s episode, we’ll learn about the principles, the resources and the values that were key in building the career he has carved out for himself today.
Drew Slack is an experienced Medical Affairs Director with accomplished career history in the biotechnology and health regulatory sectors. Skilled in Oncology, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Management, and Clinical Research. Scientific professional with Postdoctoral experience in Translational & Clinical Oncology Research, with Ph.D. focused in Molecular Pharmacology and Oncology from McGill University.
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What you’ll learn about in this episode:
Everyone is subject to sudden changes coming from external factors, such as the abrupt cancellation of a grant program
The importance of physical activity and community outside your research as a graduate student and as a postdoc
The regulatory domain as a career outlet for PhDs in the life sciences
How to rebrand yourself when interviewing for a non-academic position
How informational interviews can help you navigate the hiring process for jobs in governmental organizations
Moving laterally inside an organization to reach a position that fits you best
How your hobby or your side-gig can shape your professional future and have a tangible impact on your career opportunities
The importance of committing a portion of your time to you and your own personal and professional development
This episode’s pearls of wisdom:
“That confidence going in is so important, right? If you don’t possess that, you’re not going to be fluid, you’re not going to smile, you’re not going to present yourself in a way that is natural and authentic. So, I think this is important to secure the position. You have to present yourself professionally well, but you have to present yourself well personally, as well.  And I think all of those things are tied together by having that confidence that you know the organization’s mission and values, you’ve read every document that is publicly available, you’ve really taken every step to educate yourself about the position… If you haven’t done that, if you haven’t completed your due diligence in that regard, then you’re not ready.”
“Postdoctoral work is the most physically and emotionally challenging environment, I think. I think that’s where people find themselves most explicitly tested. It’s a real walk of faith to do that. So, I say that’s one thing – is that you really learn to trust and rely on yourself and without question, that’s where you develop your strongest work ethic and determination.”
“That capacity to calculate and to actually take risks is a skill tat every good academic researcher develops almost to the point of intuition. And I do think that that’s amongst many of the skills that you develop in a research setting – that self-reliance, that confidence that you inevitably have to develop in your own hypothesis, in the quality of your own work. You’re really the captain of your own ship and I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit for it. When you go into professional environments, you see that you, in some of those regards – autonomy, self-sufficiency, professional engagement – all of these things, I think, help PhDs stand above their competitors.”
Drew’s links: www.Exactis.ca; LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/drew-slack-a89974111/
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Abel Polese – Building a Career – Failure by Failure

Can life be made exclusively of successes? Can you find fulfillment in a job that pays well but is not aligned with your values? Does every postdoc get to be a professor? In this episode of Papa PhD, we address all these important questions and much more, as we talk with Abel Polese about his academic career, about all the other things he has going on and about how he glues everything together to achieve balance.
Abel Polese is a researcher, trainer, writer, manager and fundraiser dealing with development and capacity building in Europe and Asia. He is also interested in Science Excellence, Open Science and alternatives indicators to measure science performance and is the author of “The SCOPUS Diaries and the (il)logics of Academic Survival: A Short Guide to Design Your Own Strategy and Survive Bibliometrics, Conferences, and Unreal Expectations in Academia”, a reflection on academic life, research careers and the choices and obstacles young scholars face at the beginning of their career.
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What you’ll learn about in this episode:
How to build a career based on diversification, with a part-time academic position
The day-to-day in the domain of area studies in social sciences
Dealing with anxiety in academia and in life
Why it may be worth it to trade a secure career for a fulfilling one
The importance of giving priority to your mental health when you need to, to allow you to bounce back and pick up where you left off
This episode’s pearls of wisdom:
“Don’t kind of postpone what you want to do simply because you think ‘Ah… I’m going to get tenure and then I’m going to have fun’. If you don’t learn to have fun every single day of your life, you’ll just forget about it. And then, your going to moan the rest of your life.”
“It’s good to be stressed – it brings adrenalin and then it brings you desire to go further. But don’t overstress and think that your life will be over if you don’t get professorship, because this is absolutely not true. And all the greatest successes, they start with a failure or several failures. I mean, success is the by-product of failure.”
“Not getting one thing is just… let yourself open to other things.”
“Train yourself to live in uncertainty because there is nothing certain, even if you have tenure track. I mean, your head of department might change, or you might hate them so much that you want to change jobs. Or if you are in the business sector, your company might go bankrupt at any time.”
Abel's links: Twitter – @Abiquitous and @Scopusdiaries; LinkedIn – Linkedin.com/in/abel-polese-4b2470130/; Blog post on the SCOPUS diaries – ThesisWhisperer.com/2019/09/11/fail-again-fail-better-and-then-write-a-book-about-it/; The 7-year postdoc – Blogs.ScientificAmerican.com/guest-blog/the-awesomest-7-year-postdoc-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-tenure-track-faculty-life/
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Simon Moore – From Academia to Industry

In today’s life, your ability to pivot and to embrace new projects is key. You are actually expected to change employment on a 3 to 5-year cycle in the current job market. These pivots can happen between academic positions, between academia and industry, and between non-academic jobs. This week, we’ll be hearing from Simon Moore, whose stellar academic career has led him into a successful and fulfilling position in the pharmaceutical industry, where the scientific acumen he accrued throughout his academic carreer is put to use and challenged to its full extent.
During both graduate studies at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and postdoctoral studies at Columbia University (NYC), Simon examined fundamental topics of neural regeneration with the sole focus of securing a tenure-track academic research position. However, despite a very respectable publication record that included a first authorship in Science, a sought-after NIH transition grant (K99) and interviewing at over a dozen outstanding departments, nothing materialized. He then shifted his focus to industry and made the leap to a small biotech called InVivo Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA. They were developing treatments for spinal cord injury. It ended up being an outstanding experience where Simon learned about industry R&D practices, FDA communications and the diverse professionals required to develop complex therapies. Unfortunately, after about 4 years the lead clinical program ran into trouble and the entire R&D department was let go. He then joined Novellus (also in Cambridge, MA) to learn about and develop in vivo gene editing therapies. After about 8 months, he was approached by Rocket Pharmaceuticals (NYC) with an outstanding opportunity to help them bring gene therapies programs to the clinic. There, he contributed to the successful clinical entry (IND clearance) of two gene therapies to treat serious genetic diseases affecting young children. Simon recently joined Takeda’s Global Gene Therapy Research department in Cambridge, MA, where he now benefits of an outstanding and well-supported group, several gene therapy programs at various stages of development and the vast resources of a large pharmaceutical company.  
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What you’ll learn about in this episode:
How a coop undergrad can help you gain industry experience early on
The importance of a social network and of extracurricular activities during grad school
Leveraging your experience in research when preparing for an interview in industry
Defining criteria that are the most important for you when choosing a PI for your graduate studies
Transitioning from postdoc to industry for foreign researchers (immigration hurdles)
How to approach someone for an informational interview
The day to day of an industry position for a PhD
Simon’s pearls of wisdom:
“Being a PhD, you forget how few PhDs there are in the world. I think I saw a statistic that 2% of the population of the US has a PhD. You’re very unique, and you can forget about that when you’re surrounded by PhDs.”
“The other thing you have to learn is to just drop projects. In industry, if something’s not working, or a project’s not going, the quicker you can figure that out and drop it… And it’s hard, because you’ve invested two or three years, and you’re like “ no – we’ve got to pivot, we’ve got to move on from this, and now.”
"Although I entered industry reluctantly, I am very happy how it turned out. The best career advice I can give is to treat everyone with respect, put in the work to do your job properly and keep re-evaluating where you want your career to go – it will never stop changing."
Simon's links: LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/SimonWayneMoore; Kennedy Lab: KennedyLabMcGill.com; Langer lab: LangerLab.mit.edu; Takeda.com; 
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Virginie Levasseur – La passion pour le développement international

Les cheminements que vous suivrez après vos études graduées peuvent prendre des tournants très variés. Il se peut que vous suiviez un parcours purement académique, une carrière en industrie ou que vous vous lanciez en entrepreneuriat. Quel que soit votre choix ou la passion qui vous motive, les habiletés et l’endurance que vous aurez acquises tout  au long de votre maîtrise ou de votre doctorat seront de précieux atouts qui vous serviront au quotidien. Aujourd’hui, Virginie Levasseur partagera avec vous son trajet ainsi que les stratégies et les initiatives qui l’ont aidée à tirer le meilleur parti de son temps à l’université et à trouver sa place dans le domaine du développement international.

Virginie Levasseur, Ph.D. en Agronomie Tropicale, évolue dans le domaine de la recherche et du développement international depuis 20 ans. Ses activités professionnelles, menées principalement en Afrique de l’Ouest, en Amérique latine et en Haïti, lui ont permis de développer une connaissance approfondie des systèmes de production agricole et agroforestière, des logiques paysannes qui sous-tendent le maintien de ces systèmes, la répartition des tâches, des responsabilités et des revenus entre les femmes et les hommes, ainsi que des organisations de productrices et de producteurs qui appuient leur développement. Parmi ses réalisations, on compte la mise sur pied d’un centre de recherche et de développement pour les cultures maraîchères en Afrique de l’Ouest. Au cœur de ses actions, le souci d’agir sur l’ensemble de la filière : promotion de technologies agricoles durables, vulgarisation de paquets techniques pouvant renforcer la résilience des écosystèmes et des moyens d’existence ruraux face aux impacts des changements climatiques, amélioration de la productivité et des revenus des productrices et des producteurs, soutien aux organisations paysannes pour l’accès aux intrants, la transformation et la commercialisation des produits maraîchers. Elle est présentement directrice du programme Afrique chez Socodevi, où elle travaille depuis 9 ans.

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Ce que vous apprendrez dans cet épisode :
L’importance de participer aux associations étudianteLes différentes retombées du fait de s’impliquer dans les conseils d’administration de votre universitéQuand commencer à envoyer des CV et comment s'y prendreLe profil d'un chercheur en développement internationalL'intérêt d'un doctorat en co-tutelle entre deux universités pour faire un doctorat « sur mesure » pour vousLes perles de sagesse de Virginie :« On est ce qu’on est et il faut s’accepter, à un moment donné. Et c’est pour ça, aussi, qu’on prend des chemins différents. »« Wow! Tu as un PhD, tu dois être intelligente… Je ne suis pas intelligente, je suis déterminée – il y a une grosse différence! »« On essayait de me dire tout au long de mon entrevue que je n'avais pas les connaissances de ci, je n'avais pas les connaissances de ça, et je n'arrêtais pas de dire "oui, mais j'ai un doctorat – je suis capable d'apprendre vite sur n'importe quel sujet, c'est ça ma caractéristique de base, je peux approfondir n'importe quel sujet, je peux lire n'importe quoi. Je ne vais pas devenir une spécialiste dans tout, mais je vais devenir une très bonne généraliste – faites-moi confiance là-dessus. »Les liens de Virginie: LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/Virginie-Levasseur-3b9b1946; Socodevi.org; Facebook: Facebook.com/Socodevi; Twitter: @Socodevi; Effet A: Effet-A.com

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Sathy Rajasekharan – Landing Your Dream Job Through Exploration and Networking

Your dream job is out there somewhere. The one you were made for, the one you deserve. It may be one handshake away, one conversation away, one introduction away. So, make sure you give yourself the chance to attend events, to go to seminars in domains that interest you but are outside of your area of research. This will give you the opportunity to learn about career spaces adjacent to yours and to incrementally move towards that conversation and that position that will bring you meaning and fulfilment. In this episode, we’ll be hearing from Sathy Rajasekharan about the different stages that brought him from the bench to the global health arena.
Sathy Rajasekharan is Chief Innovation Officer at Jacaranda Health, and overseas development of innovative tools, research projects, and public sector and academic partnerships, with the aim of leveraging Jacarandas expertise and insight to influence maternal healthcare in East Africa. Prior to joining Jacaranda Health, Sathy was a Senior Program Manager for the Drug Access and Health Financing teams of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and led CHAIs work providing technical assistance to the Swaziland Ministry of Health. He has held previous positions as the Associate Director of the McGill University Centre for Biomedical Innovation (MCBI), where he helped develop a commercialization plan for health technologies. He was also the Associate Director of a translational research program at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Sathy holds a PhD in Neurology and Neurosurgery.
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What you’ll learn about in this episode:
The importance of setting up your expectations and your objectives for your graduate research
How learning new skills can open your career horizons and home in on your deep values and interests
How a job or an internship in a small team or in a small company can be an opportunity to rapidly level up by taking on challenging responsibilities
How to look for alternative academic careers, if you want to work in close connection with university and with research, but do not want to work in research yourself
Why you should attend events and network around your department/institute/university
The importance of preparing your interview with each potential employer and of practicing it, to the point where your pitch comes out naturally and you can focus on the points the employer is looking for in particular
This episode's pearls of wisdom:
“I think it’s just great to be a student of as much as possible. Even if your career path is academia, exposing yourself to a broad range of thoughts and thinking, and skills is so important. It’s so enriching for a human to do that.”
“I think that is a fundamental skill that most people sell short in graduate school – the ability to process information very quickly and apply it.”
“The more you talk, the more you pitch, right? So you learn how to refine the story about yourself. The question everyone is going to ask is “so why do you want to do this?” and why they should hire you. And you just come up with your unique selling proposition as much as possible as a candidate.”
“No one ever asks you in an interview how many hours a day you work, right? They don’t care. What they really want to know is ‘what have you done?’ And maybe that’s your scientific output, but maybe it’s your hobby or your side-gig. So if you can do it, try and do it, try and find that balance where you’re able to learn different things and do different things.”
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David Freiheit – Merging Law, Popularization, and Content Creation

Life is not in black and white. Your life, who you are, is a patchwork stemming from your upbringing, your experiences, who you've met, the choices you've made. What you studied is also a piece of this patchwork, but it's not the whole thing. And the more you go into your adult life, the more you end up painting that mosaic to your iage and to your tastes. In this week's interview, you'll be hearing from David Freiheit about getting a law degree and becoming a litigator, and about how he has been able to marry his knowledge of law to his love of photography and film.

David (Viva Frei) Freiheit began his career in law in 2005 at one of Canada's largest law firms. After the birth of his first daughter, he left the big-firm life to start his own practice, which he built into a boutique litigation firm of 4-5 lawyers and over 250 clients. He ultimately expanded his professional and creative horizons by delving into YouTube videography. 26 million views later, with over 51 million watch minutes, it's become something bigger than a pastime, and has led to him vlogging almost daily. 
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What you’ll learn about in this episode:
Tips to help you integrate and make the most of your studies as an out-of town student
How participating in student life can enrich your time at university and how it is perceived by employers later on
The importance of establishing a rapport with your professors throughout your studies
Key skills you can expect to develop in law school
This episode’s pearls of wisdom:
“What skills were very important for you that you learned in law school that then served you a lot in your work as a lawyer? It's the one skill, and I don't think it's unique to law – and it's not so much a skill, it is a question of appreciating what you don't know and and being aware of what you don't know before thinking you know something.”
"Life moves quickly. Don't stick to something for ten years if you know you hate it after five."
"As far as study goes, be diligent, make friends with the students, and make friends with the professors. Not friends like in 'buddy-buddy'... just let the professors know that you're interested in what you're studying, what's going on, because when a professor knows that you're serious, and that you exist, and that you're responsible, and that you'te taking thing seriously, on the one hand, it's good to know the professors personally, but, on the other hand, if it comes to asking for a revision of an exam, and the professor knows that you've been working hard all semester, versus they've never seen you except when it comes time to complain about the exam, it changes things a little bit."
"Get out there, meet people, get to know the city – just don't get stuck in the habit of going to school, going home and not meeting people and not getting out there... Sun and exercise, also!"
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Simon Landry – Un trajet en recherche et en communication en français

Pourquoi faire une maîtrise ? Pourquoi faire un doctorat ? Tout ça peut paraître bien compliqué et bien difficile quand on termine notre baccalauréat. Une conversation avec un professeur sur un sujet qui vous intéresse peut changer votre perspective et vous projeter dans une aventure où votre détermination et votre persévérance seront mis à l’épreuve et d’où vous sortirez armés d’un ensemble d’habiletés bien particulières. Dans cet épisode, Simon Landry partage avec nous son expérience et son trajet au doctorat et les leçons qu’il en a retiré pour sa vie professionnelle.
Simon Landry est un Acadien. Il a fait son doctorat à l'Université de Montréal en audiologie. Simon a lancé une application, travaillé pour une compagnie de réalité virtuelle, fait des vidéos YouTube neuroscientifiques et un balado. Il travaille maintenant en transfert des connaissances à Toronto et essaie de créer une compagnie en ligne (aventure qui est partagée sur son balado qui s’apelle Fait comme ça).
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Le syndrome de l’imposteur et comment y faire face quand on démarre nos études graduées
L’importance de se raconter son sujet de recherche et de savoir le raconter à un public non scientifique
Quel impact a-t-on comme chercheur sur la société, dans la vraie vie, et quel impact cela peut avoir dans notre satisfaction par rapport à notre sujet d’étude
Le rôle qu’un blogue, un portfolio en ligne peuvent jouer dans la promotion de vos habiletés et de vos connaissances et dans votre recherche d’emploi à venir
Le questionnement identitaire qui peut survenir quand on quitte le milieu académique
Les pépites d'or de l'épisode :
« J’ai toujours vu mon doctorat comme un projet que mon superviseur m’a dit  ‘vas-y, c'est à toi, je m’attend à quelque chose dans 5 ans.' Donc je sais que je suis capable de créer des connaissances – ce qui est quand-même incroyable, quand tu y penses. Je suis capable de créer quelque chose de rien et prendre 5 ans pour le faire – je suis capable d’entreprendre des projets de très, très grande envergure. »
« Je suis capable de voir les liens entre les différents systèmes parce que je sais que je peux aller très pointu dans quelque chose, mais que si je regarde d’une autre perspective, eh bien, cette affaire-là a mille autres liens qui interagissent avec mon sujet de mille différentes manières. »
« L’intelligence, c’est juste la persévérance. Ce qu’on considère comme de l’intelligence, c’est juste être capable de persévérer et de lire des articles, et juste continuer et de ne pas arrêter quand on frappe un mur. »
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Kirsten (Dr. Kiki) Sanford – Following the Passion of Science Communication

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If you decide to embark on the graduate studies journey, you may find yourself telling stories. Stories about ideas, stories about science, stories about stories. You will focus and research until late hours of the night to find that piece of information, to fill that gap in the narrative. You will crumple a whole chapter that isn’t working and restart from scratch. And one day, you’ll have in your hand the final version, and you will share it with the world, placing one more tile in the ever-growing mural that is scientific knowledge. This week, we’ll be hearing from Kirsten Sanford, whose central passion in life is to take this constantly evolving patchwork of questions, results and publications and make it understandable to an audience as vast as possible.

Kirsten (Dr. Kiki) Sanford is a science communicator with over 15 years of experience in media, science journalism, and informal science education. She received a BS degree in Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, and a PhD in Neurophysiology from UC Davis before transitioning into a career focused on translating scientific research to various audiences and helping scientists in their communications efforts. In 2015, Dr. Kiki founded Broader Impacts Productions, a boutique production agency dedicated to science storytelling. Additionally, she founded, produces, and hosts the This Week in Science (TWIS) podcast, a weekly live show that covers a multitude of science topics in a talk-show format, and is also the VP of Public Relations for Science Talk, a non-profit science communication organization.
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What you’ll learn about in this episode:
The value of investing time on your broader interests while staying focused on your research subject
How internships can jump-start your career transition through networking and opportunities, but also as a platform to learn new, specialized skills organically
The importance of observing, listening, and asking questions when you have the chance, when surrounded by people who work in your domain of interest
How your graduate research project management and learning skills translate into your post-MSc or Post-PhD career
How starting a student club or group can set you up for your professional future
This episode's pearls of wisdom:
“I was able to pick things up and still try to pick new things up even though technology keeps moving forward – “Oh, I have to learn this new skill, I have to do this new thing…” – that is grad school! Every time you want to add a new technique to your studies to be able to ask a certain question, you learn something new. This mindset, you learn as a student – that you can always learn something.”
“Impostor syndrome is something that we are hearing about a lot these days. Just know that if you are in graduate school, you have gotten there for a very good reason, and you are a capable, intelligent human being.”
“Find other people that you can connect with. I think that number 1 – humans are social beings, and if we keep all these things to ourselves, it’s damaging, in the end, and we need to be able to connect with other people about these thoughts of this thing we’re attempting, you know? Graduate school is a long and arduous adventure and you’re not always going to feel like you’re winning. It’s not always winning – there’s a lot of losing, there’s a lot of failure, and it makes you feel really bad, and it makes you doubt yourself. So find other people. If you don’t have a great relationship with your PI, find other grad students, find other advisors – you need to search for those people. Sometimes they come to you, but you need to be willing to open your eyes and see them as a possible connection.”
“Pay attention to opportunities, pay attention to the world around you so you see the opportunities and are able to act on them if it’s something that you want.”