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  Mental Health and Well-being Series    for Biomedical Researchers. Part 4: Perfectionism Feb 06, 2023 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm (ET) via zoom Register  We have all received messages that promote perfectionism; however, perfectionism is linked to poorer mental health outcomes, including increased feelings of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. And yet, it continues to be an ever-present part of people’s identity, especially those working within the high stress environment of biomedical research. In this webinar we will define perfectionism and better understand the toll it takes on our lives, explore the contributing factors that perpetuate it, and identify strategies to cultivate a healthy striving mindset. The healthy striving mindset serves an alternative to the impossibility of perfectionism which is eroding our mental health and our resilience. Immediately following the 1-hour webinar will be a 45-minute small group discussion led by a trained facilitator. There will ...

  OITE Workshops CAREER PLANNING FOR SCIENTISTS Feb 06, 2023 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (ET) via zoom Register Understand how your personal interests, skills, and values contribute to your future career success. Topics to be covered include the importance of career decision making, learning styles, self-assessment, transferrable skills, defining success, personal needs, work/life balance, and articulating short-term and long-term goals.

 The Washington Post,  TECH AT WORK Listen HERE (8 min) Death by a thousand meetings: How to reduce video-call overload Years into the pandemic, workers are still suffering from back-to-back video calls. Here’s how to rethink meetings. By Danielle Abril Pre-pandemic, white-collar workers felt meeting exhaustion. Then came Zoom fatigue. Now, they’re experiencing a bit of both,  sometimes at the same time . In this new stage of work, during which some people  are back in the office , others  are hybrid  and some are  permanently remote , many workers are being bombarded by an onslaught of meetings. And a lot of those meetings are now on video services like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. But back-to-back meetings often breed exhaustion, a feeling of decreased productivity and sometimes even dread, leaving many to wonder how to escape death by meeting. “We’re in uncharted water,” said Steven Rogelberg, who teaches organizational science, managemen...

  TECHNOLOGY FEATURE 23 January 2023 Seven technologies to watch in 2023 Nature ’s pick of tools and techniques that are poised to have an outsized impact on science in the coming year. Michael Eisenstein From protein sequencing to electron microscopy, and from archaeology to astronomy, here are seven technologies that are likely to shake up science in the year ahead. Single-molecule protein sequencing The proteome represents the complete set of proteins made by a cell or organism, and can be deeply informative about health and disease, but it remains challenging to characterize. Proteins are assembled from a larger alphabet of building blocks relative to nucleic acids, with roughly 20 naturally occurring amino acids (compared with the four nucleotides that form molecules such as DNA and messenger RNA); this results in much greater chemical diversity. Some are present in the cell as just a few molecules — and, unlike nucleic acids, proteins cannot be amplified, meaning protein-anal...