The juice and the squeeze

Episode 51: How much of our selves do we share professionally?

Julia and Jonathan tackle questions around authenticity and navigating all the different relationships we have in our professional lives. What do we choose to share with whom? And how? Being honest is valuable but it’s also nice to avoid oversharing. The “right” choice will be different for everyone, but as people who value authenticity your hosts try to find ways to be honest in a variety of situations. PS Sometimes Professors have hard times, too! Theme music courtesy of The Bobby DazzlersLinks:Jonathan Peelle (@jpeelle.bsky.social) — BlueskyJulia Strand (@juliafstrand.bsky.social) — BlueskyJulia's Guess Lectures — In "Guess Lectures," faculty give 7-minute talks using someone else’s slides from an unrelated discipline, sight unseen.

Episode 50: Mentoring students at different career stages

Inspired by a listener question, Jonathan and Julia talk about mentoring, with specific attention to how it might look different for trainees of different stages (for example, undergraduate vs. graduate students). Important considerations include generalizable "don't call them soft" skills related to time management, organization, and so on. Some strategies include formal onboarding for new lab members, individual development plans, and “professional development” portions of lab meetings. Julia learned the importance of knowing the why of something in the context of sweeping the floor. But first, celebrating 50 episodes of The Juice and the Squeeze, and an update on Julia’s Halloween. Theme music courtesy of The Bobby DazzlersLinks:50th Anniversary Gifts — Also suitable for a 50th PODCAST EPISODEBook Carvings — Julia StrandThe juice and the squeeze Episode 47: Hobbies! — Covers Julia's book carving (and more)The juice and the squeeze Episode 28: "Soft" skillsThe juice and the squeeze Episode 41: How to make fewer research mistakes — Julia's "Error Tight" project and moreIDP/IDP.pdf at main · jpeelle/IDP · GitHub — Jonathan's current "Individual Development Plan"Jonathan Peelle (@jpeelle.bsky.social) — BlueskyJulia Strand (@juliafstrand.bsky.social) — Bluesky

Episode 49: Goodhart's Law

It's really tempting to count things like credit hours, publications, or grants. Julia and Jonathan talk about some of the disadvantages of counting, including missing out on "hard-to-count" activities that may be important to us, and how to push the needle in our own thinking or evaluations to fight against easy answers. How do we consider the important aspects of helping students in our offices, deep thinking, or playing with Legos? Theme music courtesy of The Bobby DazzlersLinks:Goodhart's law - Wikipediaxkcd: Goodhart's LawImpact factor - WikipediaWhy the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research | The BMJThe extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists | Nature NeuroscienceCitation inequity and gendered citation practices in contemporary physics | Nature Physics

Episode 48: New, again

Back after a year (!) away, Julia and Jonathan cover what’s been going on for the last year, and new things they are doing. Perhaps depressingly, they agree that being older or more advanced in one’s career doesn’t prevent the need for some degree of “starting over” when new challenges present themselves. Plus, Julia shares a strong book recommendation! Theme music courtesy of The Bobby DazzlersLinks:An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us a book by Ed YongScrivener writing softwareJonathan Peelle (@jpeelle@neuromatch.social) - Neuromatch SocialJulia Strand (@juliafstrand@mastodon.online) - Neuromatch Social

Episode 47: Hobbies!

Jonathan has a career announcement and Julia is excited about graduation. Jonathan’s world didn’t fall apart when he checked his email less. And the main topic: what makes a good hobby? Do Jonathan or Julia have any hobbies? Theme music courtesy of The Bobby DazzlersLinks: