Find out how you can promote #kindnessinscience in your lab in our commentary in @ImmunolCellBiol!🥼
Thanks @LabListon for inviting us to write our passion of encouraging a kinder scientific community! 🧫
Let’s work together to be kind scientists! ✨
https://t.co/uKQCHj6j02
Hey managers: to keep your people, let them work from home 2 days a week.
Landmark experiment (1600+ ppl, 2yrs): random assignment to hybrid work
-Increased satisfaction
-Reduced quitting by 33% (especially for women & long commuters)
-No costs for performance or promotion rates
🔜📝 New blog on Friday
Growth, Healing, and Understanding: The importance of humanity in academia by Sydney Conroy
"We are not productivity machines"
#AcademicMentalHealth#AcademicChatter
🌎 Happy #EarthDay! The project "TipWash" is exploring ways to reduce plastic waste in UZH labs: A novel washing device allows reusing pipette tips up to 20x instead of disposing them after a single use.
Learn more about sustainability initiatives at UZH:
https://t.co/0jG9ube6Ut
✅Saying no
✅Setting strict working hours
✅Putting a cap on how much work you can take on
✅Being mindful about the type of content you consume
What does setting boundaries look like for you?
#AcademicMentalHealth#AcademicTwitter@PhD_Genie
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#MyScienceMay is coming your way again next week! (Because it's May!) @letstalkscicomm and I have some great prompts to help get you sharing about your work (anything STEMish is welcome)!
Join us next Wednesday with introductions, looking forward to "meeting" you all! #SciComm
Today we hosted the first #HDRWellbeing workshop in partnership with @uwanews on how to #StressLess about your PhD - thank you to Dr Lisa Saulsman from @UWApsych for a fantastic session 👏
Join us in 2 weeks to learn about healthy sleep habits!
Register: https://t.co/kXGxzvcbEx
It`s #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth and I just came across this study with 3,352 PhD students & 1,256 working professionals (NHS questionnaires):
40% of the PhD students showed depression/anxiety and 35% of both groups a suicide risk. 😔
https://t.co/uqwIeJWgyE
One random act of kindness a day can reduce stress and increase happiness, not only making others' days better, but boosting your own day ✨... And, it can also be contagious, why don't we all try it today?
#kindnesstoothers#randomactsofkindness
🎥👇🏻 https://t.co/USjR3EIY3O
What are the benefits of joining scientific societies? @ScienceMagazine explores some of the ways being part of these groups helps in career development, #networking, #funding and #scicomm skills!
https://t.co/xgINHWFI9E