Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

While we wrote this editorial to guide early career scientists on how to peer review a manuscript, I think this editorial is equally instructive as a teaching aid for graduate students to learn how to evaluate the rigor and reproducibility of a manuscript @asm.org #mBio #PeerReview #AcademicSky

The Faculty Job Market Collaboration has launched our 2023-24 survey. If you were on the faculty job market this past cycle please take sometime to answer our survey, und.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky

An excellent summary as to why early career scientists should publish in Society Journals. Please read it. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Friends don't let friends forget to reorder stacked bar plots. Stacked bar plots are commonly used in research (e.g., to visualize admixture analysis). It can get messy! After reordering the bars, wow, it really made a difference, don't you think? Link: github.com/cxli233/Frie...

mBio is looking for early career researchers interested in serving on its junior editorial board (JEB). Through JEB, mBio gave me the chance to write editorials and commentaries in addition to giving me training on peer review and publishing. Learn more here: journals.asm.org/journal/mbio...

In my role as editor for a couple of journals focused on (environmental) microbiology, I'm always looking for early career researchers interested in reviewing! Journal databases are full of old boring people. Please sign up here if you are ECR and excited about reviewing! forms.gle/JvdouyWNDuQ4...

If you are a new to the peer review process, American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has a Webinar on the process Sept 26th 🧪🦠🧫 asm.org/webinars/pee...