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ml , to academicchatter
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Scientists!

Tell us about an lab/field organizational tip that you think can apply to other scientist's lab/field operations!

Is there anything you used to do in a way that cost more or wasted more or made data fuzzy or, but now you've created a way you like better?

Share! @academicchatter @plantscience

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If you have a lot of individuals in your study population, make a database with simple codes (e.g. letter for strain and number for individual). Then when you run experiments, you can log the results easily for each individual. It also makes it trivial to generate spreadsheets (e.g. for field layouts when planting) or to sort individuals by one or more trait.

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I don't know if two articles qualify as a "PR blitz" yet, but this is the 2nd article I've seen in 2 weeks interviewing disability cops in higher ed about "what disabled students need", which is actually about what abled-led institutions choose to require.

Abled-led institutions frame this as a need to distract from the fact that 34 yrs post-ADA, our institutions still corral disabled students rather than make higher ed as accessible as possible by default. https://laist.com/news/education/learning-disabilities-community-college-special-needs-students-accommodations @disability

Laplantgenetics ,
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There is nothing about screen readers, only audio versions of textbooks. What is this, 1980s ADA compliance? Plus I would guess non-disabled students would benefit from electronic textbooks and screen readers. That seems like such a basic thing to offer these days.

ml , to academicchatter
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With Google search results having been awful for some time now, I have to assume that Google Scholar results are also less satisfactory.

While I'm old enough to have been in undergrad before the WWW, I wasn't in grad school before the 21st c. For those of you old enough, how were you doing literature review of journal articles back in ye olde days? @academicchatter

Laplantgenetics ,
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Ye old days involved card catalogs & knowing the general Dewey Decimal code for what you wanted, then checking out surrounding shelves for related books. For journal articles, you would find a relevant paper (usually from someone more senior in the lab) & then look up the referenced papers. Once you got the referenced papers, you would repeat the process.

Then we got Agricola & PubMed and could search directly for relevant papers.🎉

ml , to academicchatter
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Does anyone know of a good site comparing grad school in various countries? I've seen lots of comparisons of cost of living/tuition, but nothing yet comparing how the actual schooling goes.

In some countries it's a job, in others it's strictly school. There are also structural and pedagogical differences that would be important to know. Some are more or (usually) less accessible to disabled scholars. That's the sort of info I'm seeking.

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Laplantgenetics ,
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@ml @academicchatter Try to find out percentage of entering students who graduate from the program. A high percentage (especially for female students) is one that supports its students. 20-30% graduation rates or lower should be avoided. Also look at what students do post-graduation. If 50%+ don't work in that field anymore, it also isn't likely to be supportive.

Laplantgenetics ,
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@ml @academicchatter It's been years since I went to graduate school, but someone was trying to gather those statistics when I left for a review website decades ago. Almost no one from my starting class got degrees (we were cheap labor more than students). Also, look for programs with strict time limits (they imposed a six year limit halfway through my program so they could get rid of students without giving them degrees, before that some students took 20-30 years to finish).

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