Kathe Todd-BrownThe Science of Science by Wang and Barabasi (2021) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/science-of-science/572A745A6F97B55A263F5E86225E3F70 is absolutely fascinating as a scientist. In particular their review of h-index (mostly good enough), team science impact (need more network analysis in how we evaluate group science), and impacts of papers over time (fascinating model involving paper fitness, success bias, aging and increasing body of research). This data centric deep dive into the metrics of science was timely as I'm going up for tenure. #HowToScience
Training PhD students often follows ‘magician’s apprentice’ approach where advisors taking hands-on/off approach but rarely have a more nuanced language to discuss the advising journey. Wagner etal 2017 https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2015-0013 introduces stages 1) enthusiastic beginner, 2) discouraged learner, 3) cautious performer, and 4) self-reliant achiever. They frame roles and strategies for each stage for both the mentor and mentee and provide worksheets in their SI. #HowToScience #Mentoring #SciLit
How to share the process of graduate advising
This paper starts a two-part series on graduate advising that integrates concepts from adult learning, leadership, and psychology into a conceptual framework for graduate advising. A companion paper provides guidance on how to communicate effectively in graduate advising. Here, we present concepts and tools that enable advisors and graduate students to collaborate effectively and share the responsibility for the student’s learning. We specifically discuss (1) how to promote learning about learning to help students make sense of their experience and identify their supervision needs; (2) how to clarify roles and address conflicts of interest between different roles; and (3) how to establish an effective, learning-centered working relationship. By making the advising process explicit, using the concepts and worksheets presented here, advisors will contribute to the training of the next generation of graduate advisors.
My Ignite@AGU talk is up! "Learning how to science from the hippies" https://youtu.be/wK-gaJOvizM?si=UoXJVSp7G3fhgK_O @academicchatter #AcademicLife #HowToScience
COLLABORATIONS: LEARNING HOW TO SCIENCE FROM THE HIPPIES - KATHE TODD-BROWN
Moving beyond IRB into decolonized participatory action research Tuck and Guishard 2013 https://www.evetuck.com/s/Tuck-Guishard_Uncollapsing-ethics-Racialized-sciencism-settler-coloniality-and-DPAR.pdf lay out reflectivity, expertise, humility, dignity, action, and relationality as guiding principles of ethical research.
#HowToScience #Decolonize #SciLit
#HowToScience #Decolonize #SciLit
I hate writing. Unfortunately I love science. As a scientist I need to at least be ok, if not great, at writing. If you don't publish it, then it didn't happen.
On the theory that you learn what you teach, I took on a grad teaching assignment on writing. I'm working my way through Josh Schimel's "Writing Science" for the 4th or 5th time now and it's still pretty dang good. #HowToScience
Reanalysis of linear relationship between soil water content and heterotrophic respiration still holds 25 years later. The original highly cited paper shows that you can new quite anticipate how your work will be used in the future and data-regret from not archiving your studies (published or not) can be strong. Cook and Orchard 2008 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.12.012 #HowToScience #SoilCarbonCycling #LandCarbonModel #SciLit
Moving from damage-centered research to desired-centered research shifts the kinds of questions scientists ask and how communities see themselves. Desire does not hide the damage of the past but celebrates survival and hope. Tuck 2009 https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.79.3.n0016675661t3n15 #HowToScience #TheoryOfChange #CommunityResearch #SciLit
Academia can be cut throat. Knowing your purpose and value can help. Alpert-Abrams 2022 https://halperta.com/shalperta%20press/purpose/ #HowToScience #SciLit
Finding Your Purpose
Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate the contradictions between the work we are driven to do and the conditions we face in our working lives.
Guided reflection on developing your purpose and drive for academic work. Alpert-Abrams 2022 https://halperta.com/shalperta%20press/purpose/ #HowToScience
Finding Your Purpose
Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate the contradictions between the work we are driven to do and the conditions we face in our working lives.
Barries to big team science includes misaligned professional incentives, lack of Global South inclusion, and lack of funding. Yet big grassroots efforts exist, it’s unclear what makes these succeed. Coles et al 2022 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00150-2 #TeamScience #HowToScience #SciLit
I suspect that these successful groups were able to build community around a shared mission. Yes funding, rewards, and diversity makes this hard. And solving these would not be sufficient to create successful collaborations.