#HowToScience

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2024-08-05

Training PhD students often follows ‘magician’s apprentice’ approach where advisors taking hands-on/off approach but rarely have a more nuanced language to discuss the advising journey. Wagner etal 2017 facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/ introduces stages 1) enthusiastic beginner, 2) discouraged learner, 3) cautious performer, and 4) self-reliant achiever. They frame roles and strategies for each stage for both the mentor and mentee and provide worksheets in their SI. #HowToScience #Mentoring #SciLit

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2024-02-12

My Ignite@AGU talk is up! "Learning how to science from the hippies" youtu.be/wK-gaJOvizM?si=UoXJVS @academicchatter #AcademicLife #HowToScience

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2024-01-21

Moving beyond IRB into decolonized participatory action research Tuck and Guishard 2013 evetuck.com/s/Tuck-Guishard_Un lay out reflectivity, expertise, humility, dignity, action, and relationality as guiding principles of ethical research.
#HowToScience #Decolonize #SciLit

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2024-01-12

I hate writing. Unfortunately I love science. As a scientist I need to at least be ok, if not great, at writing. If you don't publish it, then it didn't happen.

On the theory that you learn what you teach, I took on a grad teaching assignment on writing. I'm working my way through Josh Schimel's "Writing Science" for the 4th or 5th time now and it's still pretty dang good. #HowToScience

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2024-01-11

Reanalysis of linear relationship between soil water content and heterotrophic respiration still holds 25 years later. The original highly cited paper shows that you can new quite anticipate how your work will be used in the future and data-regret from not archiving your studies (published or not) can be strong. Cook and Orchard 2008 doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2007 #HowToScience #SoilCarbonCycling #LandCarbonModel #SciLit

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2024-01-02

Moving from damage-centered research to desired-centered research shifts the kinds of questions scientists ask and how communities see themselves. Desire does not hide the damage of the past but celebrates survival and hope. Tuck 2009 doi.org/10.17763/haer.79.3.n00 #HowToScience #TheoryOfChange #CommunityResearch #SciLit

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2023-09-07

Academia can be cut throat. Knowing your purpose and value can help. Alpert-Abrams 2022 halperta.com/shalperta%20press #HowToScience #SciLit

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2023-09-07

Guided reflection on developing your purpose and drive for academic work. Alpert-Abrams 2022 halperta.com/shalperta%20press #HowToScience

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2023-09-05

Barries to big team science includes misaligned professional incentives, lack of Global South inclusion, and lack of funding. Yet big grassroots efforts exist, it’s unclear what makes these succeed. Coles et al 2022 doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-001 #TeamScience #HowToScience #SciLit

I suspect that these successful groups were able to build community around a shared mission. Yes funding, rewards, and diversity makes this hard. And solving these would not be sufficient to create successful collaborations.

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2023-08-22

Reanalysis of linear relationship between soil water content and hetertrophic respiration still holds 25 years later. The orginal highly cited paper shows that you can new quite anticipate how your work will be used in the future and data-regret from not acrhiving your studies (published or not) can be strong. Cook and Orchard 2007 doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2007 #HowToScience #SoilCarbonCycling #LandCarbonModel

Kathe Todd-Brownktoddbrown@social.coop
2023-08-22

Surveys and interviews expose the complex vocabulary of data processing and documentation. Chao etal 2015 asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.co #Infromatics #Vocabularies #HowToScience #MetaData

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