Publishing papers while keeping everything in balance: Practical advice for a productive graduate school experience

IF 0.2 Q4 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
S. Hotaling
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Pursuing a graduate degree is difficult. To succeed, students must overcome a myriad of ill-defined, and often unforeseen, challenges. One major obstacle lies in publishing their work. In this perspective, I provide a detailed description of my own working system that matured late in my graduate career but still paid dividends in terms of my publication record, funding success, and work-life balance. I also include brief vignettes of other topics that were crucial to my own scientific development. While I organized this essay as a series of “rules”—I don’t mean to imply that graduate school nor academia has a specific formula for success. Not only does it not, but as a first-year postdoctoral researcher, I can only speak to what works in graduate school through the lens of my own experiences. My experience is particularly relevant, however, because unlike many who have offered similar advice in the past, I drafted this perspective in the months that followed my degree. Rather, I offer these rules as a starting point for you to take, consider, and mold into your own framework. I am confident, however, that there is commonality among the ideas described here and the general habits of successful academics. In writing this perspective, I had three primary goals: (1) To add a more detailed, recent perspective to previous, more general essays on this topic. (2) To bridge an apparent disconnect between successful faculty and graduate students. Essentially, the advice in this essay may be obvious to a seasoned academic while simultaneously highly relevant, and interesting, to an early career student. And finally, (3) I hope to help dispel myths graduate students may hold about the innate talent or expertise needed to succeed in graduate school and to demystify the day-to-day work side of the equation. Simply put, I’m not a scientific outlier. But with good organizational skills, a diligent writing habit, and some invaluable mentoring, I made it to the light at the end of the tunnel (and into a career-progressing position). You can too.
在保持一切平衡的同时发表论文:给富有成效的研究生院经验的实用建议
攻读研究生学位很难。为了取得成功,学生们必须克服无数定义不清、往往无法预见的挑战。一个主要障碍在于发表他们的研究成果。从这个角度来看,我提供了我自己的工作系统的详细描述,它在我的研究生生涯后期成熟,但仍然在我的出版记录,资助成功和工作与生活的平衡方面付出了回报。我还简要介绍了对我自己的科学发展至关重要的其他主题。虽然我把这篇文章整理成一系列“规则”,但我并不是说研究生院或学术界有一个特定的成功公式。不仅如此,作为一名第一年的博士后研究员,我只能通过自己的经历来谈论研究生院的工作。然而,我的经历与此特别相关,因为与过去提供类似建议的许多人不同,我在获得学位后的几个月里起草了这个观点。相反,我提供这些规则作为一个起点,供您接受、考虑并将其塑造成您自己的框架。然而,我相信,这里所描述的想法和成功学者的一般习惯之间存在共同点。在写这个观点时,我有三个主要目标:(1)在之前关于这个主题的更一般的文章中添加一个更详细的、最新的观点。(2)弥合成功的教师和研究生之间明显的脱节。从本质上讲,这篇文章中的建议对一个经验丰富的学者来说可能是显而易见的,同时对一个早期职业生涯的学生来说是高度相关和有趣的。最后,(3)我希望能够帮助研究生们消除对在研究生院取得成功所需要的天赋或专业知识的误解,并揭开日常工作的神秘面纱。简单地说,我不是科学上的异类。但凭借良好的组织能力,勤奋的写作习惯,以及一些宝贵的指导,我终于看到了隧道尽头的光明(并进入了一个职业发展的位置)。你也可以。
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