Laura Naslund

@laura-naslund.bsky.social

Stream ecology and biogeochemistry | listener of too many podcasts | former Cameron Crazie

I love tip 9. Writing is so much better as a social activity! A 5 minute conversation with a writing partner can save me an hour of spinning my wheels. The other tip I would add is to start writing at the beginning of the research process not the end because writing = thinking.

Society for Freshwater Science@freshwaterscience.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Society for Freshwater Science's non-profit society journal Freshwater Science is committed to supporting first-time authors in the publication process. Check out these tips from our Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Anderson on publishing research. What are your best publishing tips?

Title: Beginner's Guide to Publishing Research. Society for Freshwater Science emerging mayfly logo. 

1) Read widely in different journals: Active reading will make you a better writer. Develop a structured reading practice. Reflect on options for structuring papers and elements that make a paper easy or difficult to understand.

2) Figure out your 'story': Draft your main messages and clearly identify your target audience. 

3) Identify a list of target journals (3-5): Not all journals are the same. There are scientific society journals, non-profit and for-profit journals, more and less discipline-specific journals. Where have you seen similar research published?

4) Assemble your skeleton: Focus your initial writing on the most important paragraphs 1) the last paragraph of the introduction and 2) the first paragraph of the discussion. Create parallel structure for your manuscript. 

5) Pay attention to journal's guidelines: Mind maximum word counts, figure and table numbers, etc.

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Ad for 2 graduate student positions and and 1 lab and field assistant position at UCSB. More info go to audreythellman.weebly.com

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Spent the evening with 38 other nerds learning about how my local government works from highly competent and passionate town managers. The first of 14 sessions. An excellent salve for the torrent of bad news at the state and federal level.

Folder with the Apex town logo and a schedule for the Apex peak academy

I was talking to a post-doc who works with me about this. She said "I did my PhD during a pandemic, now I am starting a post-doc and science is being defunded, maybe it's a sign I need to do something else with my life" She is a brilliant scientist, science needs her! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science

As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

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Well, that was an absurd game in every way. Puking. Fainting. Kon Knueppel grabbing Tyrese Proctor's leg to keep him inbounds. And of course, Cooper Flagg saving the day. Been tough sledding the last two games, but the Blue Devils are halfway to an unbeaten ACC schedule.

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Nominations are open now for 2025 SFS Career Awards! Deadline to nominate is December 13, 2024.

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