![]() ![]() I find such resolutions generally productive and always feel good when I follow through.įor 2018, major changes are coming whether I like it or not. In past years, I have made many lab-related New Year’s resolutions: have regular group meetings, spend more time at the bench, organize the mass of data that has accumulated on lab computers, start using an electronic lab notebook. I also will work towards facilitating a national initiative along these lines. I would love to see something like this begin at my university, as the first place in Sweden. We are looking into bringing in Athena Swan-like accreditation. Having said that, my second resolution is to push hard for gender equality efforts to take off at my university and nationally in Sweden. So my goal is to assure I spend more time with my students discussing data, projects and plans. I love that and it is important, but the research and the students should not suffer. Since I started my position at Chalmers, now more than two years ago, I have become involved in many big-picture issues and committees on various levels. Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Chalmers University of TechnologyĪs my New Year’s resolutions, I have two things I have thought about:įirst, I want to spend more time with my students. Next year, I will pay the money to expand the posting beyond 10 a day.įinally, I aim to reduce the number of emails I send by choosing not to respond to more email and by using the phone more often. This year, I moved towards setting up twitter bots to help me (and anyone else interested in up-to-date with the literature. Each year in December, I unsubscribe from a ton of mailing lists (if it isn’t moving me towards a personal goal, bye-bye). As one of my colleagues who I introduced to Slack stated “I setup Slack for my group and I LOVE IT! I just turn off email and do research for hours at a time… keep on top of experiments and don’t get distracted…” So, Slack can keep me away from email, but it doesn’t decrease the amount of email that I need to handle. Not all is awry we recently moved most laboratory communications to Slack. There are only a few that are directly related to the scientific output of my laboratory. What is in this inbox? There are some emails from students inquiring about there final grades, from the company that helps build my course content, TOCs from journals (including Biophysical Journal), several about travel to board meetings and study section, university paper work (effort reports, reconciliations, and pcards), department business, and the list goes on. We spoke with three incoming Biophysical Society Council members about their goals for 2018.Īs I sit here at the end of another year feeling overwhelmed with teaching, reviewing proposals, and trying to get several publications out the door, I have this strange need to clear my email inbox. As one year comes to a close and the next begins, conversation often turns to New Year’s resolutions. ![]()
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