Rachel Coulthard-Graf

@rachelcg.bsky.social

Fellows' Skills and Career Development Lead @embl Posts about scientific careers, skills for researchers and research culture. Views my own

Webinar Today! Negotiating Your First Group Leader Position Join us today to hear from three group leaders — including a co-author of a BMC Proceedings article on this topic — about their experiences and practical tips for negotiating your first group leader role. 👉 www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Rachel Coulthard-Graf@rachelcg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our first @embl.org Skills and Careers Webinars of 2026 kick off in March. 🗓 4 March: Negotiating your first group leader position, with three speakers sharing their experience. 🗓 27 March: Careers in core facilities & scientific services. Find out more & register: www.embl.org/about/info/e...

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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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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📣 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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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

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 · 2y ago

🚀 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...

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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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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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.👇 wp.me/p76cuy-QQ

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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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 · 2y ago

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

Calling group leaders in the life sciences! We're collecting examples of successful job application materials for a career workshop for postdocs applying to academic roles. Interested in sharing your materials? Drop us a line at fellows_careers@embl.org & we'll send you further info.

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A renewed reminder to anyone applying for a PhD or postdoc position in a lab--indicate your interest in the email/cover letter by talking a bit about that lab's work and why it would be a good fit. I answer any query that includes this information but do not answer those that do not.

Which one are you? Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics. –Peter Medawar