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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 9d

Our @embl.org Skills & Career Webinars are restarting for autumn/winter 2025 - first up on 22 Oct: Jacobo Miranda on ‘Project Management with AI: Blending Human Insights and Machine Support.’ More details & registration link at www.embl.org/about/info/e...

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Jacobo Miranda, Bioinformatics training officer at the data science center, EMBL.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Aug 17

An overlooked aspect of becoming a scientist is realizing that you have a particular brand; a unique approach, an attraction to a certain kind of problem and a set of connections that you like to make. Uri calls it finding your internal tuning fork.
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17 | Uri Alon and our internal tuning fork

Podcast Episode · Night Science · 05/31/2022 · 40m

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Chris Smith @drchristsmith.bsky.social · Aug 5

Are you a #postdoc looking for a supportive community of peers to help you navigate the postdoctoral experience and next stage in your career? Considering joining @futurepislack.bsky.social or checking out the resources linked on their website!
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Future PI Slack

A peer support group for postdocs on academic track

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · Jul 17

Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster

Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026?

#EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · Jul 14

Since I'm blathering about (my own) scientific writing this morning, I'm reminded to remind you that I made a starter pack of folks who post about the history, practice, and craft of scientific writing: go.bsky.app/TwZVnjU

You can get some good advice from folks on this list!

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Jul 3

Looking for practical tips for making your science accessible & engaging to diverse audiences? Join our next @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar with guest speaker @shreyaghosh.bsky.social, Communications Editor at EMBL.

Register now to join us on 16 July: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Shreya Ghosh, Communications Editor, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Jun 20

More new contributions to fellowships and research job applications! @minyaaa.bsky.social @morgancarterphd.bsky.social @benrlee.com and more github.com/RILAB/statem...

GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants

Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Jun 10

Explore our upcoming EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars, and other resources focussed on career development for researchers from the EMBL Fellows' Career Service at: www.embl.org/about/info/e...

#AcademicBluesky #ECRChat #academicinterviews #AcademicChatter #PhDChat #PhDSky

EMBL Fellows' Career Service – Career guidance for early career researchers in the life sciences and related fields

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Jun 10

The webinar is part of our newly expanded webinar series (previously EMBL Careers Webinars) now including skills development webinars.

Next up:
Communicating Complexity: How to Explain Complex Ideas in Simple Words
with Shreya Ghosh (EMBL, Germany)
🗓️ 16 July | 11:00–12:00 CEST

#Scicomm #AcWri

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Jun 10

Planning an academic career and want to boost your interview skills?

Join the @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar:
Interview Skills: Hiring and Being Hired in Academia
🗓️ 16 June | 11:00–12:00 CEST
Three academic group leaders will share their practical insights.

👉 www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Details of the webinar: Interview skills: hiring and being hired in academia. 16 June 2025 | 11:00-12:00 CEST Speakers • Ana Boskovic, EMBL, Italy
• André Nadler, MPI-CBG, Dresden
• Rafael Galupa, CBI, France

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Jun 5

Great news for early career researchers with longer postdoc projects: from 2027 the ERC Starting Grant eligibility criteria will be extended to 10-years PhD defense.

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Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes

With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...

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EMBL @embl.org · May 19

Interested in research infrastructures career?

The #ARISE2 Fellowship Programme might be right for you.
MSCA funded, the programme supports STEM researchers in becoming leaders in research infrastructures, driving innovation in life sciences 🧪

🗓️ Call opening: 30 June
www.embl.org/training/ari...

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Joel Selkrig @jselkrig.bsky.social · Mar 12

📣 Conference Announcement! Till Strowig, @lisamaierlab.bsky.social and I have organized a stellar lineup of speakers from different corners of the Microbiome field for the 17th SeeOn Conference in picturesque Bavaria. Open to all! Abstracts due April 6th. Spread the news! www.dghm.org/seeon/

Seeon - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie

Microbiota, Probiotics and Host → Flyer 17th Seeon Conference Registration (click here for registration) The steering committee of the “Microbiota, Probiotics and Host”- group warmly invites you t...

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Feb 21

👇TODAY 11:00 Central European Time (in 2 hours).

Learn about a great career option for those who enjoy discussing science with a wide range of researchers but no longer wish to work at the bench.

embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Details of the webinar (Strategic alliances and industry partnerships | 21 February from 11:00-12:00 (CET)
Marzia Sidri, Strategy, Operations and Alliances Manager at Cellzome, Germany
Vassilis Georgiadis, Director of Industry Partnerships at King’s College London, UK)
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Feb 18

Interested in careers at the academia-industry interface?
Join our @embl.org careers webinar this Friday at 11:00 CET to explore roles that let you:
✅ Build cross-sector collaborations
✅ Shape research strategy
✅ Connect science & business
Free & open to all

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hi Cristina - I've circulated on our career service jobs board / mailing lists. Hope that's okay!

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Feb 6

🤔Curious about careers in strategic alliances and industry partnerships?

This dynamic field bridges research sectors and aligns closely with business development. Explore key roles and related career paths here: www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Career area: Business development – EMBL Fellows' Career Service

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚀 Exploring career paths in and beyond academia?

Since 2020, @embl.org Careers Webinars have hosted 69 speakers from 19 countries and 4600+ attendees.

Next up:
Strategic Alliances & Industry Partnerships
📅 21 Feb, 11:00 CET

Learn more & register:
www.embl.org/about/info/e...

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Chris Smith @drchristsmith.bsky.social · Feb 3

For the past 3 fall semesters (2022-2024) I have led a series for Virginia Tech (and recently UNC) graduate students on pursuing a postdoc proactively. I distilled some takeaways from those sessions in this recent piece @insidehighered.com:
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

How to prepare proactively for a postdoc (opinion)

These are some actions a Ph.D. student can take to pave the way for a positive postdoc experience, Chris Smith writes.

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Total Internal Reflection🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @tirscienceblog.bsky.social · Jan 24

New posting! I was recently part of an @embl.org #Careers webinar to discuss #MedComms, & why this might be the best career option for scientists who enjoy the writing/communicating/organising aspects of the job the most 🤩 Extended transcript of the Q&A session below.👇
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The magic of MedComms: an EMBL Careers Webinar

Medical Communications (MedComms) might just be the best industry career option out there for scientists who most enjoy the writing/communicating/organising parts of the job, and on 22nd November 2…

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · Jan 14

Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · Jan 14

Three tenure track positions at Stockholm: "... focus should be on patterns and processes that previously have been difficult to study, but now are possible due to recent advances in areas such as sequencing, AI, imaging, mass spectrometry, tomography and exposomics."

Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · Nov 22

Come be my colleague! Three tenure track positions open at Stockholm University. Great start-up packages & environment for evolution and biodiversity research!

Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Nov 22

Anyone looking for an assistant professor position in biodiversity research? Not one but three positions available at Stockholm U:
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Dec 19

We typically share our materials as CC-BY-NC, but we'd be very happy to suggest to people who reach out to us that they share as CC-BY and also submit to your repository.

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Dec 18

With your permission, materials will later be shared publicly on our @embl.org website www.embl.org/about/info/e... and Zenodo (an open science repository). Your contributions will help tailor our workshops & support the next gen of group leaders!

Job applications – EMBL Fellows' Career Service

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Dec 18

We're aware of fantastic existing repositories (e.g.,from @jrossibarra.bsky.social and UCSF) 🙌, & we’re particularly seeking a wider range of life sciences research proposals of 2-5 pages, if possible with figures. Additional examples of CVs and cover-letters are also welcome.

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