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  Self-Reflection Quotes of the Week:    “Do your little bit of good where you are, it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu   Moments of Inspiration:    Kwanzaa  began yesterday!    How does personality relate to attitudes toward diversity and workplace diversity initiatives?  New research findings could inform more effective implementation and communication of diversity initiatives.    Rising again: forgotten Japanese American photography   A South Portland hotel goes all out to help asylum seekers   The Pandemic Has Created a ‘Zoom Boom’ in Remote Psychotherapy - Research suggests virtual sessions can be as effective as in-person meetings   Blair Imani on creating an equitable world through accountability   ‘I Am a Writer Because of bell hooks’   Newsworthy and noteworthy for this week:   Kimberly Potter found guilty of manslaughter in fatal shooting of Daunte Wright   Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90   Protests

 Hi all,  Since we are taking a 2 week pause from our community breath and movement, I recorded a couple of yoga asana practices for those of you who would like to have a practice!  1) 60 min yoga asana flow  link : https://maine.zoom.us/rec/share/SXTeR4dKZ7QXxjwPRYpEh0BvCixYlWcv_GwvqNFObqOiEqCDz1hpQR4aq22nHveF.1C1NNnSfVFRvg52L  (Access Password: X4U1US^*) If you would like to listen to my playlist during practice: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5o6XVoacwEygi26pEqOUwU?si=b0b372bd17f44dc3 2) 70 minutes yoga asana flow link : https://maine.zoom.us/rec/ share/pF3IiajttfPhfh1ZnI-j_ a8yshDHC1guxLcedovBUjiFUoh- 1nlpYB4QbB2PdD7b. vTrvQTK1vLJKn6cX   (Access Password: casu#j^0) Let me know if you have any trouble accessing. Feedback and questions welcome. Best wishes for a great transition into the new year! Lucy

 

  CAREER COLUMN 10 December 2021 Managing up: how to communicate effectively with your PhD adviser Your supervisor has a vested interest in your success. Set the right tone and communication style when you meet with them. Lluís Saló-Salgado  ,  Angi Acocella  ,  Ignacio Arzuaga García  ,  Souha El Mousadik  &  Augustine Zvinavashe When you start a PhD, you also begin a professional relationship with your PhD adviser. This is an exciting moment: interacting with someone for whom you might well have great respect and admiration, but who might also slightly intimidate you. They will have their own management style, but ‘managing up’ is important, so you need to identify the style that will help you to thrive academically, and communicate that to your adviser. In September, we ran a panel discussion for new graduate students in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. One focus of the panel was how to communicate e

  CAREER FEATURE 17 December 2021 The scientific workplace in 2021 The impact on careers of a lingering pandemic and industrial unrest were among the challenges faced by working scientists in the past 12 months Chris Woolston The past year delivered challenges as well as opportunities to working scientists around the world. Every week brought new developments: changes in funding (for better or worse), disruptions from a lingering pandemic, fresh warnings about inequity and toxicity in the workplace, and other reminders that careers in science remain dynamic and rewarding, but can also be daunting. COVID-19 continued to shape science. Surveys of researchers conducted in the first few months of 2021 confirmed that the pandemic had hampered the productivity and  strained the mental health of researchers  in the United States and the United Kingdom. The  disruptions were especially harmful to female scientists , according to a report by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, a

  CAREER FEATURE 20 December 2021 Exiting gracefully: how to leave a job behind Although burning bridges can be tempting, a better approach is to leave goodwill and cheer in your wake. Bianca Nogrady The typical movie-style job departures made popular in films such as  Bridget Jones’s Diary ,  Jerry Maguire  and  American Beauty  see the soon-to-be-ex-employee exiting spectacularly, burning every bridge on the way out, or being escorted off the premises so fast that their feet barely touch the ground. But the reality of departing a job can be a much gentler experience. Maybe you’ve been head-hunted and received an offer that’s too tempting to refuse, perhaps your current job has become repetitive and it’s time to make a move, or your contract might simply have finished. But it’s possible that you’ve been miserable in your position, you’ve been made redundant, or you’ve been sacked. For medical biologist Leigh Coultas, at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbou