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 Register here At our Tuesday check-ins (starting May 17th at 11am pdt / 2pm edt), we will make a plan for the week, share what we are learning, and hold one another accountable – touching on themes like using informational interviews to externalize introspection, finding our sparks, building sparks into stars, finding patterns: using our …

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https://www-amazon-science.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.amazon.science/postdoctoral-science-program?_amp=true The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.

MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization based in NYC and is currently hiring for a number of roles including quantitative and qualitative researchers and DEI strategists! https://www.mdrc.org/careers ______________________ About MDRC: MDRC is committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult problems facing the nation — from reducing poverty …

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Friday May 6th – 2pm pdt / 5pm edt Free, must register to attend Bring all your questions, and resistance (if you’ve got some) – we’ll think about what it might mean to approach the platform as researchers. What if we thought about LinkedIn as a database of the world’s largest repository of information about …

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5 weeks of story activities and exercises from Bringing Linguistics to Work Career Camp – Cohort 15 – launching Friday, May 13th   We’ll gather around the campfire Fridays 2pm pdt / 5edtRegister here for Career Camp ___________________________________________ NEW OFFERING!!! Five weeks of networking, working with the Charting the Stars metaphor from Employing Linguistics !  …

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I love the perspective shared by Samantha Beaver in this recent interview with with Rebecca Shields, academic advisor for Language Sciences at The University of Wisconsin, Madison. Samantha talks about a move “from a posture of searching to one of exercising agency!” ….you are actually empowered to create your own opportunities within roles that you …

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