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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.
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More skills sessions, non-academic career topics, and EMBL Entrepreneurial Minds series with EMBLEM (EMBL's technology transfer partner and commercial arm) continue in spring.
Insights from previous events are integrated into our online resources:
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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:
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Another way we’re doing this is through our @embl.org Career & Skills Webinars.
Our next webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET focuses on career paths in IT or software, and is organized with @biont-training.bsky.social
Register here: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Making these available is part of our efforts to make the career and skills information we develop for EMBL accessible to all early-career researchers navigating their next steps. The full set of resources are available at: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
New on the @embl.org Fellows’ Career Service site: a section with resources on key skills. Developed by Sabrina Krueger, as part of our complementary skills programme, these materials add to our existing resources for career options, planning, and job applications.
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The image includes the details of the webinar: EMBL | BioNT Career Webinars- Career Paths in Software/IT SMEs | 28 November from 11:00-12:00 (CET) The webinar details are in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual showing a head with multicoloured arrows going out from it, illustrating that your skills and knowledge can lead to different careers.
Thinking about moving from academia into IT and software?
Join our @embl.org & @biont-training.bsky.social Career Webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET, with speakers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs):
💡 Toni Wagner – vAudience (DE)
💡 Helena Vela – Do IT Now (ES)
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The image includes the details of the webinar: EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars - ‘Project Management with AI: Blending Human Insights and Machine Support.’ Tune in on 22 October at 11:00 - 12:00 CEST Jacobo Miranda, Bioinformatics training officer at the data science center, EMBL. The webinar details are in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual showing a head with multicoloured arrows going out from it, illustrating that your skills and knowledge can lead to different careers.
Our @embl.org Skills & Career Webinars are restarting for autumn/winter 2025 - first up on 22 Oct: Jacobo Miranda on ‘Project Management with AI: Blending Human Insights and Machine Support.’ More details & registration link at www.embl.org/about/info/e...
An overlooked aspect of becoming a scientist is realizing that you have a particular brand; a unique approach, an attraction to a certain kind of problem and a set of connections that you like to make. Uri calls it finding your internal tuning fork.
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Are you a #postdoc looking for a supportive community of peers to help you navigate the postdoctoral experience and next stage in your career? Considering joining @futurepislack.bsky.social or checking out the resources linked on their website!
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Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster
Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026?
#EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics
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!
The image includes the details of the webinar: EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars - Communicating Complexity: How to Explain Complex Ideas in Simple Words | 16 July from 11:00-12:00 (CEST) | Shreya Ghosh, Communications Editor, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany The webinar details are in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual showing a head with multicoloured arrows going out from it, illustrating that your skills and knowledge can lead to different careers.
Looking for practical tips for making your science accessible & engaging to diverse audiences? Join our next @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar with guest speaker @shreyaghosh.bsky.social, Communications Editor at EMBL.
Register now to join us on 16 July: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
More new contributions to fellowships and research job applications! @minyaaa.bsky.social @morgancarterphd.bsky.social @benrlee.com and more github.com/RILAB/statem...
Explore our upcoming EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars, and other resources focussed on career development for researchers from the EMBL Fellows' Career Service at: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
#AcademicBluesky #ECRChat #academicinterviews #AcademicChatter #PhDChat #PhDSky
The webinar is part of our newly expanded webinar series (previously EMBL Careers Webinars) now including skills development webinars.
Next up:
Communicating Complexity: How to Explain Complex Ideas in Simple Words
with Shreya Ghosh (EMBL, Germany)
🗓️ 16 July | 11:00–12:00 CEST
#Scicomm #AcWri
Details of the webinar: Interview skills: hiring and being hired in academia. 16 June 2025 | 11:00-12:00 CEST Speakers • Ana Boskovic, EMBL, Italy • André Nadler, MPI-CBG, Dresden • Rafael Galupa, CBI, France The text is in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual with multicoloured arrows going out from a graphic showing a head
Planning an academic career and want to boost your interview skills?
Join the @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar:
Interview Skills: Hiring and Being Hired in Academia
🗓️ 16 June | 11:00–12:00 CEST
Three academic group leaders will share their practical insights.
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Great news for early career researchers with longer postdoc projects: from 2027 the ERC Starting Grant eligibility criteria will be extended to 10-years PhD defense.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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
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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/
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) The text is in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual with multicoloured arrows going out from a graphic showing a head
👇TODAY 11:00 Central European Time (in 2 hours).
Learn about a great career option for those who enjoy discussing science with a wide range of researchers but no longer wish to work at the bench.
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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
Hi Cristina - I've circulated on our career service jobs board / mailing lists. Hope that's okay!
🤔Curious about careers in strategic alliances and industry partnerships?
This dynamic field bridges research sectors and aligns closely with business development. Explore key roles and related career paths here: 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) The text is in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual with multicoloured arrows going out from a graphic showing a head.
🚀 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:
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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...
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.👇
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Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11
wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
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."
