My Hobby and Interest - Research

Everyone is welcome to zoom in and participate in Tues/Thurs morning 30 minute sessions!  This week: Tuesday October 26th, 30 min breath and movement Community class on zoom https://maine.zoom.us/j/ 4625543963 8:00am-8:30am Today's focus is attention to neck, shoulders, wrists, and upper back! Thursday October 21st 30 min breath and movement Community class on zoom https://maine.zoom.us/j/ 4625543963 8:00am-8:30am Today, introducing animal flow movements!

  CAREER FEATURE 25 October 2021 Academia’s ableist mindset needs to change Four junior researchers with disabilities describe their career experiences to date, and how colleagues can act as allies. Kendall Powell Last year, disabled early-career researchers were under-represented among PhD graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) fields. In the United States, 25% of adults live with a disability, but in 2020 those with impaired hearing or vision earned just 4% of US STEM PhDs, and those with a mobility limitation earned just 1% of STEM PhDs. A report by the UK Royal Society in January 2021 found that 12.5% of UK STEM graduates had a disability in the 2018–19 academic year, up from 6.1% in 2007–08. This rise is attributed to increases in students reporting mental-health conditions and learning difficulties. Those with physical disabilities comprised roughly 2% of UK STEM graduate students in 2019. In this second feature to mark National Disability Employment A...

  CAREERS WORKING LIFE I felt overloaded at work—until I learned how to say ‘no’ to colleagues 21 OCT 2021 BY  MINGDE ZHENG I was sitting at my desk when another grad student in my lab approached me. “Can you help?” he pleaded. His experiment wasn’t working and he desperately needed help troubleshooting. I was a fifth year Ph.D. student at the time, and I took pride in being the senior member of the lab, whom everyone looked up to. But that also meant I was the one everyone turned to for help—which ate away hours, days, and sometimes weeks that I could have spent on my own research. As I had many times before, I caved and said yes. It was a habit that took years to break. There were many reasons I had a hard time saying no to such pleas. I was new to the United States, having moved from China for graduate school. I found it difficult to make new friends and discover afterwork activities I enjoyed. So I spent a huge chunk of my time in the lab, and my lab-mates served as my pri...

  CAREER COLUMN 21 October 2021 How to make your research reproducible Ensuring that your work is reproducible is not as daunting or complicated as you might think. Experts share their tips. Jeffrey M. Perkel This 60-minute webinar features 3 speakers who discuss the need for, and practice of, computational reproducibility. Lorena Barba, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at George Washington University in Washington DC, led the discussion by explaining why computational reproducibility is important. She described  a case from her own experience , when a collaborator discovered a bug in the code associated with a paper that her team had published in 2019. “A wave of panic goes through you: will this alter the result? Will you have to submit a corrigendum to the journal? Or worse, will your paper have to be retracted? This is not such a rare occurrence.” C. Titus Brown, a bioinformatician at the University of California, Davis, talked about how to get started ...

  Join ‘Andy’s Open Door’ on Wednesday, October 20 Join MaineHealth CEO Andy Mueller for his next live virtual “Andy’s Open Door” session this  Wednesday, October 20th at 9:00 a.m.  Andy will share insights from his weekly rounding visits and discuss the latest news impacting our workplace. To access the meeting on October 20,  click here .   Care team members always have the opportunity to ask questions via the interactive “Ask Andy” segment. Submit your questions in advance ( askandy@mainehealth.org ) or during the live chat.     Remembering SMHC’s Ed McGeachey It is with deep sadness that MaineHealth announces the passing of Southern Maine Health Care’s (SMHC) most influential leader to date, former President and CEO, Ed McGeachey. Ed was a foundational figure at SMHC from the day he walked in the front doors of then Webber Hospital in 1976 until he retired some 41 years later in 2018. During this time Ed and his team worked tirelessly to develop an...