tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72455675599538184042024-02-19T16:38:30.228-05:00This Is Your Life 101Thoughts on Academia and a Life of LearningTori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-16141341627549453132018-05-02T08:03:00.002-04:002018-05-02T08:03:31.908-04:00NIH New PI: Reflection and Progress Report, Month 2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_fEiOlmZZpmffput-yqGMqqIOzvbx-cIy0tZ4boQhsRdg-SeRKPong8jyxaOoE9ZgBysZkYjkB1wl0ulIrypttqZPb8FK1LZTa4n_rZMUlWNZD6ka6EDO-0YgD8H1dkkmrtPF7H9KSsE/s1600/Arigo+NOA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="762" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_fEiOlmZZpmffput-yqGMqqIOzvbx-cIy0tZ4boQhsRdg-SeRKPong8jyxaOoE9ZgBysZkYjkB1wl0ulIrypttqZPb8FK1LZTa4n_rZMUlWNZD6ka6EDO-0YgD8H1dkkmrtPF7H9KSsE/s200/Arigo+NOA.jpg" width="158" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Time flies</u>! </b>I cannot believe that it's already been two months since I got the official notice of award for a 5-year K23. (See blubbering me, right). And because the notice came on the start date of the grant (usually comes ahead of time), it's been two months of grant-funded activities. This grant protects 80% of my time for research; as I'm at a primarily undergraduate institution with a 3/3 teaching load and the notice came mid-semester, the change in day-to-day life was abrupt and dramatic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And great. And stressful. And humbling, in the most positive way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>So what have I done with the past two months, you ask</u>? </b>A lot, and not enough, all at the same time. Crazy how that works for so many academics! Here are some of the ways I spent my increased research time in March/April:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Step 1: Transfer two full sections of Abnormal Psychology to new instructors (35 students each). </b></i>We knew in January that the grant was likely to happen, but we didn't know when, and I was in the classroom until the day the notice came. For one section, an adjunct who had observed me all semester took over; for the other, a full-time faculty member who regularly teaches the course took over. My tasks were to finish grading a set of homework assignments, meet with the new instructors to discuss midterm and final projects, and get my materials into shareable form. I had prepared students for my departure since the first day of the semester, but there was also the matter of actually saying goodbye. Abnormal is a popular course, and I'm pleased to say that at least a few students took it with me specifically because they heard good feedback from peers. So this was a bittersweet moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Step 2: </b></i></span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b>Figure out how on earth to manage a grant.</b> </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was (and still am) astonished at how much time is spent on administrative tasks. Hiring staff, setting up record-keeping and other procedures, planning and tracking spending. There is so much involved that isn't really about the research (or training; see Step 3), and in my case, I'm doing it for two different institutions (more soon). Some days it seems like all I accomplish are admin tasks, which is frustrating. But I recognize that these are necessary and I try to keep a balance by protecting time for other work. Success rate ~40%.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Step 3: Get started on training activities. </b></i>The K23 is a career development award, where research projects are intended to (1) facilitate practice and development of new research approaches and skills learned through training with mentors<i>, </i>and (2) generate strong preliminary data for future R proposals. My training plan involves weekly meetings with on-site mentors, monthly trips to other institutions to meet with specific mentors, workshops, and tons of reading. In the first two months, I've planned out the first year, gained a better understanding of the evidence base on tailored behavioral interventions, received guidance in grants management, and scheduled formal training in </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">analysis of ambulatory assessment data. I've also watched several webinars on career development, responsible conduct of research, and academic productivity.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Step 4: WRITE ALL OF THE THINGS! </b></i>One of the best features of the K23 is the protected time, and I've tried to spend a good chunk of this time on writing projects. This was much easier in March than in April (see Step 6), but I managed to make some progress. I completed three invited manuscript revisions (two manuscripts now accepted for publication), revised a rejected manuscript and submitted to a new journal, accepted two invitations for manuscript/encyclopedia submissions, and added to drafts of new manuscripts. One of these required reviewing literature I'm not that familiar with, so again, tons of reading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Step 5: READ ALL OF THE THINGS! </b></i>I cannot describe how wonderful it is to have time to read again. Not only for catching up on so much new research and preparing for class (see Step 6), but for other enriching texts that broaden my mind and skills. So far, I've devoured <i><a href="https://sty.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=323251" target="_blank">The Coach's Guide for Women Professors</a></i> and <i><a href="https://www.ithinkwell.com.au/supervising-phd-students" target="_blank">Supervising Ph.D. Students</a></i>,* and I just started a tome called <i><a href="http://www.cigarettecentury.com/" target="_blank">The Cigarette Century</a> </i>(all nonfiction). I'm also obsessed with audiobooks; my favorite right now is <i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/540586/eleanor-oliphant-is-completely-fine-by-gail-honeyman/9780735220690/" target="_blank">Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine</a></i> (fiction), which I've listened to several times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Step 6: Continue prepping and teaching a new course, continue mentoring students on independent projects, and take on new leadership roles. </b></i>So 80% of my time is now devoted to training and related research, and that leaves 20% for everything else. In my case, some of that everything is teaching and mentoring. The course I continued to teach is Psychology of Women, which is really the psychology of gender and equity. Oddly, prior to this semester, the course did not have a Women's and Gender Studies designation, and I did some prep last semester to apply for the designation (approved). Although my research focuses on women's health, my background isn't in the psychology of gender or women's/gender studies. This means that a lot of the material is new to me, and it takes a lot more consistent reading and prep work than a course like Abnormal.** It's also a very interesting point in time to be teaching this course, given the most recent presidential election and the #MeToo movement. I'm fortunate that I have a fantastic group of students who make the course so much fun to teach. Though it's a lot of work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With respect to mentoring, I have a full-time research coordinator, a senior fellowship student, and a junior student who all have independent projects they're working on, plus a senior lab assistant and a sophomore who is developing an independent project idea through a tutorial with me. That's three sets of data collection, individual mentoring time, and weekly lab meetings. Today, my students are presenting our work at the University's internal research day, so the last few weeks have been devoted to poster preparation. I look forward to sharing this experience with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Speaking of posters, it seems like yesterday that I was in New Orleans for the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM). The last major set of tasks that have occupied my last few months have to do with SBM. In addition to prep for student posters, my own oral presentations, and session chair duties, I've taken on an additional leadership role in one of the Society's special interest groups and joined two committees. The number of emails and phone calls per week alone is astonishing. But it's fantastic to have the chance to be more involved with SBM and to contribute to the Society's activities in a more meaningful way, and all of these activities are directly related to the topics of the K23 award.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Step 7: Try to wrap my mind around this amazing opportunity. </b></i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As I noted in a series of tweets back in March, I really never believed that I would become an NIH-funded PI. The funding environment is so competitive, and brilliant, talented investigators with great projects miss paylines all the time. (We also now have data to support what many suspected about <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/02/27/1714379115.short" target="_blank">low inter-reviewer reliability for grant scoring</a>, which makes it all seem pretty random.) I'm a very hard worker with some decent ideas, but I fully acknowledge that I am not the most innovative person out there. This is compounded by the fact that my work has taken a sharp turn into the digital sphere, where the commercial market and research space have exploded in the past few years. So I planned to keep plugging, work with collaborators, do my best work and make the best of whatever happened. Then the K23 happened, and all of a sudden, a dream came true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This changed things for me. Things like my expectations for myself, my sense of what others might expect from me, the scope and possibilities for my work. My researcher identity, in a way. Plus, there's the new responsibility of being entrusted with taxpayer money. I realize that I probably didn't need to have quite such an existential experience over it, but I did. And that hasn't really stopped. It's pretty common for me to be in the middle of one of the activities described above, and all of a sudden remember that I'm now a PI. Not once has this failed to bring a huge smile to my face or remind me how lucky I am. I plan to make the most of the next 4.8 years, and I think I'm off to a pretty good start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">*<i>Supervising Ph.D. students has not been part of my work thus far, but will be soon. Stay tuned!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>**My background is in clinical psychology and I've taught Abnormal about 20 times.</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-44676483737195423082017-07-20T12:59:00.000-04:002017-07-20T13:01:05.827-04:00A Change of (Research) Scenery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>When it comes to routine, I am the best</u>.</b> I absolutely love getting into a daily groove and staying there for a long time. I also love going to the same restaurants on multiple occasions and watching my favorite movies and shows <i>many times over. </i>(Most recent case in point: I have watched the entire available-in-America catalog of <a href="http://www.pbs.org/food/shows/great-british-baking-show/" target="_blank">The Great British Baking Show</a> more times than I can count. I was on round five last time I checked and that was a while ago.)* There's something delightful about establishing a routine or revisiting something familiar. You know exactly what you'll get and you can look forward to enjoying it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>By best, I also mean worst</u>. </b>Not just because most people find this approach to life terribly dull for lacking in spontaneity. I see the value in changes and I do like to mix it up on occasion. (Mostly when a friend asks that we eat at not-the-same-restaurant-we-always-go-to.) I mean that sometimes routine can be detrimental to a research program. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fully immersing ourselves in a research project has plenty of advantages, as does <a href="http://getalifephd.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-to-develop-daily-writing-habit.html" target="_blank">regular/daily writing</a> and setting a model of consistency for mentees. These practices can produce both more efficient and higher-quality work than repeatedly re-orienting to a project whenever opportunity arises. But even this can be taken too far. In my case, I get so engrossed that I don't leave my building for eight or nine hours at a time during winter and summer breaks. I get lots of work done, but my efficiency decreases after several days (or weeks) in a row of this approach. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>To combat my tendency to retread a very deep path, I've embraced two practices</u>:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've tweeted about the writing retreats I organize for our faculty writing group at my university (see below),** and others have written (very eloquently) about the <a href="http://www.phd2published.com/2012/11/22/how-to-run-your-own-writing-retreat-for-acwrimo/" target="_blank">benefits and how-tos of these events</a>. There's something about a change of scenery for the purpose of <i>writing</i> that packs a punch. Faculty offices are associated with plenty of other kinds of work, and it's easy to get distracted or restless. Finding a peaceful location where the goal is to write gives us something extra to look forward to and the perfect justification for putting other work on hold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hoppy Tuesday! This makes up for road closures/coffee disasters that it took to get here. My work space for the next 2 days. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Acwri?src=hash">#Acwri</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ECRChat?src=hash">#ECRChat</a> <a href="https://t.co/a77qXq0Weu">pic.twitter.com/a77qXq0Weu</a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">— Dr. Dani Arigo (@DaniArigo) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaniArigo/status/877157250187632645">June 20, 2017</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In contrast, the collaborative research trip is new for me. By "collaborative research trip," I mean an extended stay at a university where you have collaborators and intensive collaborative work during that stay. In my case, I've continued to work closely with my postdoc fellowship lab, which is 2+ hours away in Philadelphia. I've been back to visit several times in the past three years, but never for more than a day or two at a time. This summer, the lab set me up with a small office for a week in order to have more face time for papers and grant applications. This is my fourth day on campus - I've made considerable progress on a manuscript I started last month and specific plans for two more manuscripts on related topics, plus tentative plans for grant applications. I've also been able to run in my old haunts, like the Ben Franklin Parkway and Boathouse Row. Quite a productive week so far!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But this trip has been great for my research and for me beyond the concrete productivity. It's reconnected me to a type of research (i.e., large clinical trials) that I have yet to implement at my institution, and it's given me the opportunity to spend both work and personal time with people I don't see very often. I've also loved having time to myself to read, focus on marathon training, and avoid any sort of routine. I had already planned to visit again during my Spring 2018 sabbatical, and now I know that I'll visit as often as they'll let me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the week</u>:</b> Busting out of a routine helps to establish balance. Looking forward to getting back to my usual, but also to my next break from it :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>*I'm a member of my local public broadcasting affiliate, obviously, so I've even binge-watched all of season 4 many times.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>**Please ignore the typo in this one - Twitter really needs an EDIT button!</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-31337438818083997422017-07-06T08:46:00.001-04:002017-07-06T08:48:44.985-04:00On Summer Reading<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Like most academics, I really do
love to read</u></b><b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>And every
time I get a break from the hectic pace of a semester, I remember how much I love it. I find it incredibly tough to
make time for leisure or general staying-informed reading amidst teaching, grading, mentee supervision, committee work, conference prep, and event planning. During these times, most of the text that gets any sort of attention is on a
syllabus reading list or in the form of a tweet.* But during long breaks, I
(we) get to rediscover the long form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Free your mind - bury it in a book! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/amwriting?src=hash">#amwriting</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/writenow?src=hash">#writenow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/writing?src=hash">#writing</a> <a href="https://t.co/PvdJbhDurs">pic.twitter.com/PvdJbhDurs</a></div>
— Write Now Podcast (@WriteNowPodcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/WriteNowPodcast/status/882924629458903044">July 6, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<b style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><u>Like what</u>? </b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've read some incredible books during my last few breaks. I was utterly absorbed by <a href="http://alicedreger.com/GMF" target="_blank">Alice Dreger's </a></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><a href="http://alicedreger.com/GMF" target="_blank">Galileo's Middle Finger</a></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> during winter break 2016. If you consider yourself a scientist (or generally a person who understands the importance of the scientific method), read this book. Likewise, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/books/review/jill-leovys-ghettoside.html" target="_blank">Jill Leovy's </a></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/books/review/jill-leovys-ghettoside.html" target="_blank">Ghettoside: The True Story of Murder in America</a> </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is a heartbreaking and eye-opening look into the reasons why so many murders of black people go unsolved in Los Angeles.** I was invited to read and discuss <a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530131/you-cant-touch-my-hair-by-phoebe-robinson-foreword-by-jessica-williams/9780143129202/" target="_blank">Pheobe Robinson's </a></span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/530131/you-cant-touch-my-hair-by-phoebe-robinson-foreword-by-jessica-williams/9780143129202/" target="_blank">You Can't Touch My Hair</a> </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with the student staff at our Women's Center. I was blown away by Robinson's ability to communicate her black, woman, and black woman identities as both distinct and integrated. And <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/books/review/all-the-single-ladies-by-rebecca-traister.html" target="_blank">Rebecca Traister's <i>All the Single Ladies</i></a> was an engrossing mix of history, interviews, and personal stories that chronicled single women's contributions to US society. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The threads that connected these reading experiences were the marginalization, oppression, and intersectionality that motivate social activism and change. I didn't plan it that way - the universe just seemed to know what was good for me. Although I'm a clinical health psychologist with a particular interest in understanding and promoting women's health, I did not come to this topic with a background in feminism or women's/gender studies. A forward-thinking colleague at my university (who happens to be the director of our Women's and Gender Studies Program) heard about my interests and invited me to join the program two years ago. Participating in WGST as an associate faculty member, and now as a member of the program steering committee, I've seen my work in a different light. I've also been able to bring together faculty and students with women's health interests through programming, such as our recent <a href="http://www.scranton.edu/news/royalnews/releases/2017/03/08/campus-corner-mar-8.shtml" target="_blank">Women's Health Research Panel</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Coming to a humanities-based program from a science background has wonderful advantages, but I've realized that my knowledge base has some serious gaps. So this summer, I'm giving myself a crash course in the women's/gender studies and activism. As you'll see from my reading list (right), there are some second-wave feminism classics, two histories of the women's movement, and a set of recommendations to help faculty and students maximize a</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">WGST</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> education</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. Oh, and some leisure reading - one of my favorite pastimes is reading about academic writing and productivity :)</span><br />
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<b><u>Working on balance</u>. </b>As I described <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2017/06/where-on-earth-did-year-3-go-and-other.html" target="_blank">in my last post</a>, I love writing, and I miss it when I let the craziness of an academic semester keep me away from it. Same with reading! So how can I (we) be better about reading what's not on our syllabi during the semester? I do try to take one day off each weekend, and I could be a lot better about making time to read on those days. I've also discovered the incredible world of audiobooks (via Audible) and I've "read" more than ever by listening while running. I got to experience <i>Girl on the Train</i> (incredible narration), Stephen King's <i>The Stand</i> (almost 50 fantastic hours!), and <i>Katherine</i> (an </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">historical fiction classic) this way. I also LOVE listening to people talk about running while I run, so I listen to books about running (<i>Eat and Run, Ultramarathon Man, Running Man***</i>) and the new-ish <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/the-runners-world-show" target="_blank">Runner's World Show podcast</a> - so motivating! </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm engaging in many hours of running each week this summer as I train for the <a href="https://steamtownmarathon.com/" target="_blank">Steamtown Marathon</a>, so I have plenty of time to multitask.****</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the week</u>: </b>There's a lot to do, all the time. Taking a few minutes (or hours) to immerse myself in the original long form enables me to be better informed about and engaged with other aspects of my life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>So what's on your summer reading list? </b></span><br />
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*To be fair, I get a lot of research-related notices and I find out about
relevant papers via tweets. But I only get to skim them and save them in a too-big-to-describe Windows folder called TO READ.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>**I read this very close to the time that I watched </i>The People vs. OJ Simpson<i>. What an education.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>***I need to get some running audio by women!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>****More on this later.</i></span></div>
Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-6886589400384986462017-06-23T09:02:00.001-04:002017-06-23T09:02:56.830-04:00Where On Earth Did Year 3 Go? And Other Mysteries<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>It's been almost a year since I wrote a blog post</u>. </b>I bet you can guess what happened! The short version is that I thoroughly enjoyed my summer (while still being productive) and then was quickly swept away in what often seems like a complete blur of a year. Oh I remember every agonizing moment (and some positive moments), but it went by FAST, and there was always something pressing that needed attention. That should have been my first clue - an entire year with no lulls in the pace of work? Bad news. And bad planning. I admit that I emerged as a person I don't want to be: irritable, negative, overtired. Generally not my best self, and I committed to addressing that as soon as grades were submitted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>What did I learn from this unpleasant experience</u>? </b>Probably nothing that I didn't know </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">already</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">, but apparently I needed a harsh reminder. First, it's not as easy as "learn to say no." That's excellent advice and academics should follow it. But I said no, often. I turned down manuscript review and guest lecture invitations and I let students know that the lab couldn't support anyone new. I passed on some opportunities to participate in professional society and university committee activities and was relieved when someone else was selected for a particularly time-consuming position. Despite multiple requests, I said no to a large set of responsibilities that required summer work. In fact, I might have said no more than I said yes, but the pace was worse than ever. And it wasn't as though the opportunities I said yes to were just the wrong ones to choose. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm not <i>certain</i> about what went wrong. My hypothesis is that the balance was off - that there were too many recurring, long-term, or ongoing commitments (e.g., regular meetings, being available/not writing during RAs' work hours, <a href="http://www.scrantonfac.org/nepa-aaup-2017/" target="_blank">organizing and </a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.scrantonfac.org/nepa-aaup-2017/" target="_blank">promoting </a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.scrantonfac.org/nepa-aaup-2017/" target="_blank">upcoming events</a>) and not enough one-off/short-term tasks, or too many of the latter interspersed with the former. Definitely too many commitments that required me to corral other people; great service if you do it one at a time, but more than one at any given time is a recipe for frustration. And definitely not enough scheduled, protected writing time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Why was the lack of writing time particularly harmful</u>? </b>Probably not for the reason(s) you'd guess. Sure, not sitting down and "slapping my mitts" against a keyboard (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Lot-Practical-Productive/dp/1591477433/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" target="_blank">as Paul Silvia would say</a>) made me a bit anxious about my productivity level, and the anxiety was warranted; I submitted fewer manuscripts this year than last, and thus, have fewer acceptances to date. But the difference really isn't that big, and the manuscripts I did produce had some important consequences for me. (For example, one of them got me a consultant position with a fantastic research institute.) Plus, I gave lots of talks (at professional conferences and invited talks on campus/in the community), got highly involved with my primary professional society (which has been great fun and has introduced me to wonderful people), and did A LOT of service. All of this is expected and needs to get done, and I still managed to get a few papers out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The problem wasn't just that I wasn't as productive as I wanted to be. It was that <i><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>I genuinely missed writing</b></span></i>. I have to work hard at it to generate high-quality products, as most of us do, and of course, that process isn't always enjoyable. Neither is the review process, most of the time. But the process of sitting down with a cup of coffee, putting ideas to paper, finding new published research that informs what I'm writing/finding ways to integrate it, and coming up with new, exciting hypotheses as I go - I really, really missed it. I didn't realize how important that is to me, or how happy it makes me, until I came back to it at the start of the summer. The difference was startling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><b><u>I have lots of ideas about how to address this problem</u>, </b>and I've already put some of them into action. <u>First</u>, absolutely no email or other work-related activities on weekends or after 5:00pm on weekdays (except for true emergencies, which are rare). I'm increasingly intolerant of the expectation that I'll respond during these times, even during active semesters, but especially in the summer. <u>Second</u>, I committed to a personal goal of completing my 7th marathon in the fall, and I'm training correctly by taking extra time to cross-train, build muscle, eat well, and keep a log. (Much more on this later.) <u>Third</u>, I make space for "quiet time" every day - reading, logging, and/or just thinking about the things I enjoy. The latter can include work, if I choose, but it doesn't have to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><u>Finally, keeping up with this blog</u>.</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>I don't pretend to have sage advice or answers to life's most pressing problems. But writing these posts keeps me organized and accountable, and it fits well with item #3 above. As a preview, here are some topics you can expect to read about this summer:<br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">- Summer lab management at an undergraduate institution</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">- My faculty summer writing retreats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">- Running and research, Parts 2-X (<a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/02/on-research-and-running.html" target="_blank">see here for Part 1</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">- Organizing the personal (in a healthy way)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">- Reading as downtime</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><i>Stay tuned!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the year</u>: </b>"Whatever we pay attention to is what we become." - Alanna Kaivalya. For me, this means paying more attention to aspects of my life other than work, and being fully present during these times. And when working, giving it my full awareness. Otherwise, I become that person I really don't want to be.</span><br />
<br />Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-67621081225330829872016-07-06T11:43:00.002-04:002017-06-19T16:03:48.183-04:00Taking a Real Summer "Break"<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Happy Summer</u>! </b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you've ready any previous posts on this blog, then you're likely familiar with my <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2014/08/life-really.html" target="_blank">perpetual goal of taking a real break/vacation</a> at some nonspecific point in the future. After the Spring semester I had (i.e., gave myself), I need a break more than ever. I <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/06/first-summer-as-faculty-planning-gone.html" target="_blank">spent last summer</a> managing and analyzing data, writing a solo-authored manuscript, and drafting a related grant application. I also traveled for events that did not allow much relaxation time; two weddings, a project trip, and two weeks in Brooklyn for a training program. I'm guessing that I worked at 85-90% of academic year effort, which is not a break. As this summer approached - my second summer on the tenure track - my mantra was DO NOT REPEAT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unlike my work goals, though, my break goal is the definition of vague. What? When? Where? How will I know whether I did what I set out to do? What is it that I'm trying to achieve, exactly? Even when it comes to not-working, <i>clarity is helpful</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Getting it right</u>. </b>My first priority for the summer is to rest. Easier said than done, as many of us know, and what does that really look like? For me, rest means taking evenings and weekends completely off, and spending that time either lying in the sun with reading material or binge watching Netflix/HBO. (Also sleeping at least eight hours per night.) I started on this path as soon as Spring grades were submitted. I slept; I watched all available episodes of <i><a href="http://marvel.com/tv/show/216/marvels_daredevil" target="_blank">Marvel's Daredevil</a></i> and quickly moved on to <i><a href="http://www.hbo.com/true-blood" target="_blank">True Blood</a></i>. (Neither is typical for me, but I loved both. Which is cool in its own right.) I'm now on season four of <a href="http://www.hbo.com/veep" target="_blank"><i>Veep</i></a> AND season two of <i><a href="http://www.hbo.com/true-detective" target="_blank">True Detective</a></i>. And I bought a kiddie pool to stay cool outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the relaxation was broken up by nagging guilt about not-working. </span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I should be writing X paper or drafting Y section of my upcoming grant submission! Think of everything I could get done if I worked just a little more!</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I was on the path to self-sabotage already, and beating myself up for it wasn't helping. So </span><u style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">step #2</u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> was clarifying what </span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">needs</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to get done this summer, what </span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I'd like</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to get done this summer, and ongoing work that likely </span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">will not</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> get done this summer. This also meant planning around some deadlines and travel and coordinating with summer RAs to maximize work time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seeing this plan helped me realize how much I'll be able to do even as I work less than usual. Having a major deadline early in the summer also helped, and I used extra time off as a reward for meeting that deadline. (I submitted days in advance, actually, and I didn't experience the stress frenzy that usually comes toward the end. Planning works even better than I anticipated.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u>Step #3</u> involved creating an intervention for those times when guilt still nags at me. We can't stop ourselves from having negative thoughts, but we can redirect them to more balanced, accurate thoughts. As a clinical health psychologist, I know very well that taking breaks improves efficiency and leads to higher quality work than does running yourself into the ground. This is something I help others realize and implement, but find difficult to do for myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example, recently I took a three-day weekend, just because. I worked hard during the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">week and I was ready to relax. As I sat on the couch or on the deck, relaxing, I found myself thinking </span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; text-align: center;">you're being really lazy - you're really not going to accomplish ANYTHING this weekend? </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">Sounds terrible when I say it like that. But then I called to mind my </span><a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2016/05/its-may-spring-semester-conference.html" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Spring-semester self</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">: exhausted, irritable, and not incredibly productive. My current less-exhausted, cheerier, productive self then shifted to </span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; text-align: center;">this is good for me (and the people I care about)</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">, and I was free from negativity for a good while. Breaks work wonders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Also, non-work goals</u>. </b>If you've </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">read previous posts on this blog, you also might remember that <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/02/on-research-and-running.html" target="_blank">my "hobby" is running</a>. I've run a bunch of half-marathons, six marathons, and an ultra-marathon (31+ miles). I'm slow, but speed isn't the point. I decided to run my first marathon in graduate school, simply because I needed a goal that was personal; not related to professional achievement and just for me. It was an incredible experience and I kept it up for years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But since I started my tenure-track job, I haven't been able to make the mental commitment to training. (That alone should tell me something.) I did a half-marathon in my third week on the job, which was fun but not great; it was a gorgeous day on a gorgeous trail and I finished in a respectable time, but I wasn't well trained due to recent illness. I wrestled with the idea of a fall marathon this year - as you have to plan months in advance - but I still couldn't pull the registration trigger. I kept up my usual running and strength training schedule, but it was more out of habit and fear of losing fitness than out of love or excitement. I renewed my subscription to <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/" target="_blank">a running magazine</a> just to have some sort of running cue in my house. I needed a goal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Having that running magazine around recently allowed me to pick up an issue when I felt particularly despondent. Reading about gear, trails, races, and other runners' enthusiasm brought me back up, and I committed to a fall event: <a href="http://rw.runnersworld.com/rwhalf/" target="_blank">a running "hat trick,"</a> or three races in two days. It's a back-to-back 5K and 10K on a Saturday, then a half-marathon (13.1 miles) on Sunday. It's a new challenge for me, and it really helped - I've enjoyed running more since I registered than I have in over a year. Together with rest, sun, and continuing to work on projects I care about, running is lifting the Spring-semester cloud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the week</u>: </b>Overall, I'm happy to report that this summer is going well on all fronts. I had to plan for this and commit to it, and I've been able to strike the right balance for me. So if you're struggling, try focusing on these for the second half of the summer, i</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">dentify relaxation/hobby goals. Put those academic skills to work for non-work!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Share how your summer is going and how you're taking a break this year!</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-69680597594116297872016-05-23T12:02:00.000-04:002016-05-23T12:02:54.262-04:00It's MAY?? Spring Semester, Conference Season, and Keeping Up<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Wow</u>. </b>This was both the shortest and longest semester in the past 10 years, and it taught me a lot about my professional habits. Not just about a tendency to take on more than a human can manage (as many of us do), but how it happens, how I handle it, and what happens to me as a result. The short version is BAD - as in, I've already made many public commitments to avoid ever putting myself in this situation again. A good deal of reflection has led to some useful conclusions, including the meaningful rewards of all that hard work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Conclusion #1</u>: When presented with an opportunity to begin a new project, I focus solely on the potential scientific benefits (including "that sounds so cool!"). </b>Unfortunately, I don't attend to the details of how the project wi</span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; text-align: center;">ll be carried out - whether anyone has generated a list of all relevant tasks, who is in charge of which tasks, how long each one will take, and what the standard is for completion. Which is strange, because I'm a planner! I schedule my activities carefully and I've rarely had difficulty keeping up with ongoing tasks. But without soliciting all of the relevant information above and/or making key decisions ahead of time, my plans get blown up regularly, and I lose hours on tasks that I thought would take 30 minutes. That means something else just isn't going to get attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Similarly, when it's time to prepare for my favorite conferences (or for our internal </span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">student research day), it sounds like a great idea to submit 7-8 abstracts at a time. It's only when preparing posters and presentation slides (or making multiple rounds of edits to student posters) that I remember "I didn't have to do ALL of this." Tired much, academic in this photo? ----></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As many academics suggest, it would be useful to have a <i><span style="color: #990000;"><b>clearer long-term plan and concrete targets to hit</b></span></i>. Then I can reference the plan when new opportunities are presented: does this fit, and does it help me meet my target? If it will put me beyond the target, is it enough to justify the time and effort of the project?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Conclusion #2</u>: I'm a perfectionist/control freak.</b> This is a tough one for me to admit. I have high standards and there is a right way to do much of what I do, so I tend to insist that it be done this way. It's easy to see the problems that such tendencies create, such as making more work (and possibly, friction) for myself than is absolutely necessary. And of course, it's just generally uncomfortable to doubt that you're a good collaborator.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the same time, there are good reasons to insist that work be done in a particular way. Junior investigators, in particular, have to be aware of how we're building our reputations and whose standards we use to evaluate our work - especially if we work on multidisciplinary teams, as norms differ across fields. This feeds back to #1, in that potential difficulties can be avoided with thorough conversations up front. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm still in the process of <i><b><span style="color: #990000;">deciding whether to focus on changing this tendency or accepting it and adapting to it</span></b></i> (e.g., with early conversations and the attitude that not everything is worth doing). I suspect that there is a happy medium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Conclusion #3</u>: I hit my limits before I expect to. </b>I can tough it out through busy, stressful times - I have a lot of practice and I hate to be a complaint factory. So I expected to be okay for the first few months of the semester, and to feel the effects in the last few weeks. In truth, I was burnt out two weeks before spring break (i.e., five weeks in). I had little energy for socializing, which usually invigorates me, and my work didn't quite meet those high standards of mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I didn't realize how spent I was until I traveled for a conference and friends inquired about my well-being. They didn't think I was on the verge of a meltdown, but they could tell that something was off. </span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Then it hit me pretty hard. In response, I took the opportunity to rest and see the sights more than I originally planned. It helped a lot, and probably saved me some sanity down the road. As a result, I'll be more careful to <b><i><span style="color: #990000;">take breaks (always a downfall), check in with myself, and communicate realistic time frames for completed work</span></i></b>.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><u>Conclusion #4</u>: Staying mindful of positivity and the power to change can get me through. </b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Throughout this crazy semester, I prefaced (or added the caveat to) any complaining with the acknowledgements that (1) everything on my plate was good, and (2) I made my own bed. I'm fortunate to have the opportunities I have (people want to work with me, yay!), and I have some ability to modify my schedule and commitments as I see fit (flexibility, also yay). As a clinical psychologist, I know that most people can handle difficulty if they know that it's temporary. Hope and optimism are pretty powerful; it's the lack of confidence that circumstances will improve that really gets us. My little reminders - which were accurate - kept me from getting lost in negativity. So I'll <span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>keep up those mantras</b></i></span> whenever staying afloat seems more difficult than it should be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><b><u>Conclusion #5</u>: It's all worth it. Really. </b>I had some important successes this semester. I had a first-authored paper accepted in a great journal and my first NIH grant received a decent score. Another grant was reviewed very favorably by a mock study section. I made some critical connections at conferences. I gave many guest lectures. And I finally recovered from surgery and got back to my normal exercise routine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Most important of all, though, were my students' successes. One was accepted at a prestigious medical school and one at an ideal masters program for her. I supervised three undergraduate Honors theses, which were my first; one of them received an Honorable Mention for our Library Research Prize and that student won two awards from our department. I mentored five additional students to posters at our research day </span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">(See photographic evidence, and #1....) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">S</span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">eeing my students do well was hugely rewarding. It was the first time that I got to feel true <i>pride</i> in someone else's accomplishments (rather than just happiness for them), as I knew the role I played in each. And, unsurprisingly, it shifted my perspective on the long hours, sleep deprivation, and decreased socializing. I love the work for its own sake, and I'm so grateful that I get to share this with students. (Stay tuned for more commentary on this process.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><b><i><u>This is your life lessons of the semester</u></i>:</b> Know thyself, ask questions, and keep your eyes on the horizon.</span></div>
Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-83361395670752631422016-01-21T15:01:00.000-05:002016-01-21T15:01:40.999-05:00New Year, New Outlook?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Three weeks in</u>. </b>Though we've had almost three weeks to get used to writing "2016," I'll admit that I still have one foot in my 2015 mindset - the one that served me well as a trainee, but now shows diminishing returns. Namely, a mindset that pushes me to take on as much as humanly possible in order to squeeze out as much useful information as I can. There's just so much to be learned about the topics that I care about. But so far this year, I'm paying attention to the costs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example, I know that it's perfectly acceptable (and possibly desirable) to attend a conference without submitting to present at it. But when conference season rolls around, I don't even consider this option. Partly because I'm in the habit of gearing my projects toward conference deadlines, but partly because.... why the hell not? Conferences are such a great way to get the word out about my work! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But it's always the same. I start with one or two main submissions; as I prep abstracts, I get ideas for other submissions; I want students to present, of course, so there's a few more. Before you know it, I'm presenting a talk and five posters, plus three posters that I'll co-author (across two conferences). And just for fun, these conferences are within two weeks of each other this year! That's a lot of conference prep. On top of teaching, supervising honors theses, service, and running a four-month intervention study. (At least two of these activities also could go in the "probably not necessary" bin.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>WHY</u>?? </b>This product-focused mindset was not born merely of ambition, CV building, or the desire for tenure. I love what I do, and I want to discuss it with my clever peers (some of whom I only see at conferences). But this mindset has drawbacks: I spend little time on leisure activities,* I don't read for pleasure very often anymore, I don't travel much,** my house could be a lot cleaner. And I could be healthier. Healthy is the one that gets me these days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a clinical health psychologist, I'm well aware of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and I do pretty well. I practice a lot of what I preach; I run, I watch what I eat,. But I don't always attend to problems in a timely fashion, which can make the problems worse. Case in point: I've had a chronic, low-grade health problem for years, and in August, I finally went to have it checked out. After a five-month whirlwind of doctors and tests, I recently underwent a (minor) surgical procedure to fix the problem. My first surgery, in fact, so I wasn't sure what to expect. The short version is TIRED. VERY TIRED, NEED TO LIE DOWN, CAN'T GO FAST (physically or mentally). I've had to admit to myself that I cannot, and should not, push myself like I usually do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b style="text-decoration: underline;">What am I doing instead</b><b>?</b> I leave work by 4:00 and I nap a lot, which still is difficult to believe. I walk on the treadmill, rather than run. And I read. How glorious it is to have time for reading again! Honestly, I </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">forgot how much I love to read. And I joined a reading gro</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">up - my first one! For the group, which is meeting next week, I already tore through Roxane Gay's <i>Bad Feminist</i> and started </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;">Rebecca Solnit's </span><i>Me</i><i>n Explain Things to Me</i>. Gay's set of essays was particularly familiar, as it articulated something I've long felt but couldn't put words to (a subject for another post). I'm</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"> also doing preparatory reading for courses, including texts on gender and illness, neuroscience, and psychotherapy supervision. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the new year</u>:</b> Forced relaxation serves as a great reminder to make time for LIFE during the semester.</span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">*** One of these days, that message will stick. Let's hope it's in 2016!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>*Other than watching Netflix, of course.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>**By "much" I mean "at all," unless you count overnights to Philly for work (2 hours away).</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>***To be fair, all of this (including the surgery) is possible because spring semester hasn't started yet.</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-15252567027774099842015-12-31T13:26:00.000-05:002015-12-31T13:26:17.168-05:00The 2015 Wrap-Up<a href="http://www.cbcelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/how-often-blog-why-blogging-writing-ideas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="93" src="http://www.cbcelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/how-often-blog-why-blogging-writing-ideas.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>It's that time</u>. </b>The very end of a calendar year, when 95% of people you know will <a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-waters/2013/12/reflection-resolution-and-reinvention-in-the-new-year/" target="_blank">look back on the year</a> and set goals for the next. I look forward to reading all of the academic blog posts about 2015 progress.* I've charted my productivity once or twice per month this </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> year, so I don't intend for this to be a simple re-hash. As many have observed, blogging has the advantage of allowing for true reflection - as you put your thoughts about previous events on screen, we see patterns or points that we don't see in the moments that events occur. So here is my 2015 reflection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Due to the variability in publication timelines, I had eight articles published this year. Thus, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=lf42EBUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate" target="_blank">looking at my CV</a>, 2015 has been my most productive year by far.** </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But behind the positive outcome, there are several years of frustration; as I look back, I feel the echo of these experiences. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These papers written and revised between 2011 and 2015, and were accepted between 2013 and 2015. So they reflect three different affiliations and phases of my career (internship, postdoc, and tenure-track positions).</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I received, and continue to receive, excellent training mentorship in all of the skills relevant to my job. This is evident from the ability I now have to design, conduct, and publish <a href="http://goo.gl/soFz6j" target="_blank">an intervention study</a> in one calendar year. </span><br />
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<a href="http://static.communitytable.parade.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/job-search-frustration-ftr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="http://static.communitytable.parade.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/job-search-frustration-ftr.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But as we know, getting to that point can be difficult. There is a steep learning curve on scientific writing and publishing, and limited opportunities until you get a firm handle on collecting your own data. As a trainee, the transition from one institution to another presents a range of challenges, even for the most motivated researcher. New mentors and labmates (some of whom are now quite junior, which is novel), and new responsibilities. Importantly, many of these responsibilities have nothing to do with getting your own publications out. Although this is your highest and most pressing priority (for securing a permanent job as quickly as possible), this can seem like an afterthought to supervisors. Many of us understand the <i><span style="color: purple;"><b>intense</b></span></i> frustration of this situation. You also may be dealing with completely unfamiliar data sets, some of which come with very little institutional memory for procedural details (due to trainee graduation/turnover). The freedom of a tenure-track position offers sweet relief, and the space to reconnect with genuine love for the work itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I look back at 2015, I see the fruits of my internal labor - the culmination of my struggle to accept a lack of independence and make the best of a difficult situation for me. As noted, I received fantastic training, which I can now fully appreciate and put to use. In addition to the papers that came out this year, I also had several papers and book chapters accepted,*** submitted several more, and made my first foray into the world of federal grant pursuit. Of note, work in each of these areas has involved collaboration with former supervisors. It's wonderful to see so much time and effort finally pay off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year included many other positives:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have an amazing group of students who have enjoyed their own achievements this year - acceptance to several medical schools, their own data collection, poster presentations, and internal grant applications, and the development of new and exciting skills. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did my first two radio interviews about my research: <a href="http://superhumanradio.com/shr-1566-self-perceived-vs-actual-and-desired-body-weight-science-for-humans-alkalizing-the-human-body-social-comparison-negative-body-image-and-disordered-eating-behavior.html" target="_blank">Super Human Radio</a> and <a href="http://radiomd.com/show/er-101/item/30285-boosting-motivation-fitbit-social-networking-helps-women-exercise-more" target="_blank">RadioMD</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've begun to collaborate with faculty in other departments and at other institutions, and there are many exciting opportunities on the horizon. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I completed the first half of an <a href="http://www.downstate.edu/pride/program.html" target="_blank">NIH-sponsored training program in cardiovascular medicine</a>. Though this program, I learned a ton and met an incredible group of young faculty from all over the country. (I also got a two-week, all-expenses-paid Brooklyn experience. And I get another one in June!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I reviewed grants for the <a href="http://komennepa.org/" target="_blank">Northeastern Pennsylvania Komen cancer affiliate</a>, and I'll do this again in January.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was invited to join a faculty writing accountability</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> group at my institution, and I've enjoyed many benefits of this experience. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Both <a href="http://www.phd2published.com/acwri-2/acbowrimo/about/" target="_blank">#AcWriMo</a> and #AcWriAdv reminded me that I love to write, and that writing is better with a community. (And <a href="http://stylishacademic.com/danis-acwrimo-plans/" target="_blank">I was featured</a> on one of my favorite blogs, <a href="http://stylishacademic.com/dani-did-it-acwrimo/" target="_blank">Stylish Academic</a>!)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the year</u>:</b> It was a great one. Now let's make 2016 great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>*Even though the end of the regular year is only the midpoint of the academic's year, so we have a different type of calendar-year reflection.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>**Not that this Google list is correct in terms of dates. Dates here are when the articles were first available online; "published" = out in print version of journal.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>***And some rejected, of course. I actually don't know how many of each.</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-90995512304700483162015-12-05T11:08:00.000-05:002015-12-05T11:10:01.627-05:00#AcWriMo Wrap-Up<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ws37qAmq9dJDy8v7jX5C059O_UoAglIUSmzO_7Vno4itNm2wlZWQe10VEaC5MR2sSOXWmfrylmp-XTtz2MdCJvN_IUSP-RFQCRh6Z4oFKOaSjL_j4b_Ik5cPDsgdDy0woAo61sVl0ig/s1600/AcWriMo+Post.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ws37qAmq9dJDy8v7jX5C059O_UoAglIUSmzO_7Vno4itNm2wlZWQe10VEaC5MR2sSOXWmfrylmp-XTtz2MdCJvN_IUSP-RFQCRh6Z4oFKOaSjL_j4b_Ik5cPDsgdDy0woAo61sVl0ig/s200/AcWriMo+Post.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Sadly, AcWriMo 2015 is over</u>. </b>Delighted to report that it was another successful and supportive month, <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/11/acwrimo-and-writing-accountability.html" target="_blank">through some setbacks</a>. As noted, I set both <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/11/acwrimo-2015.html" target="_blank">product and process goals</a>; the latter was particularly helpful this time (i.e., scheduling writing for two hours per day on three days per week, one of these days at a coffee shop). My main product goal was to make progress on two manuscripts with undergraduate students, as those can get lost in the shuffle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Using the 2x3x(1/coffeeshop) method, I found myself more enthusiastic about these projects. I even snuck in some unscheduled writing on these, which I posted on using #unexpectedacwri. One stalled due to data analysis problems (as I want the student to lead that component), but I ended AcWriMo with a complete, nearly-polished draft of the other. My goal is to submit that one before Christmas. I also edited a paper/sent it to coauthors, applied for and received an internal grant for Intersession (January), and made a good deal of progress on an external grant application. And I <a href="http://phdlife.warwick.ac.uk/2015/11/18/review-paul-j-silvia-how-to-write-a-lot/" target="_blank">reread Paul Silva's</a> excellent <i>How to Write a Lot, </i>which doubled by resolve. I connected with some great people along the way, including <a href="https://twitter.com/meganehatch" target="_blank">@meganehatch</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/llmunro" target="_blank">@llmunroe</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/EllieMackin" target="_blank">@EllieMackin</a>. The mutual support of the community members really is what makes this event work so well. Thank you to everyone who participated, and to PhD2Published for hosting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Admittedly, I did not truly tackle my huge revise-and-resubmit invitation, due in late January. I sat down to plan the revisions and realized that it's going to take more deep thinking </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">than I anticipated </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(plus some additional analyses). So that one is on deck for the next few weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Luckily, AcWriAdv is here</u>!</b> Via Twitter, I learned that a group of academics picked up on <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OJQvAaApWY3HIgPkDs0gtkDoC2Hcub9qT_An3b_67TI/viewform" target="_blank">November 29th and will continue until December 24th</a> (in "celebration" of Advent). The group is much smaller than the AcWriMo group, but following the hashtag is just as beneficial. This week, I made tables for the nearly-there manuscript, added to grant content, and got some much-needed feedback on a grant aims page. Goals for this coming week (finals week) are to finalize the manuscript and revise the aims, in the midst of grading. And I'll meet with my student to plan next steps for the second manuscript.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><u>What's next</u>?</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> My institution has all of January off for Intersession.... perhaps I'll keep the ball rolling with #AcWriInt?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-41820430085959155682015-11-22T10:03:00.000-05:002015-11-22T10:03:07.485-05:00#AcWriMo and Writing Accountability - Nearly There!<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>A little more than halfway there</u>! </b>It's Day 22 of <a href="http://www.phd2published.com/acwri-2/acbowrimo/about/" target="_blank">Academic Writing Month</a>. As I've shared, I'm tracking progress for the blog <a href="http://stylishacademic.com/danis-acwrimo-plans/" target="_blank">Stylish Academic</a> and updating on Twitter. I'm also participating in a <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015_10_01_archive.html" target="_blank">faculty writing accountability group</a> at my institution. With all of this external accountability, i</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ts about time for some deeper-than-140-characters reflection on progress thus far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As someone who has been <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lf42EBUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao" target="_blank">moderately productive to date</a>, my interest in external accountability sources is more for the camaraderie than for the kick in the pants. (Though the kick definitely does help!) Specific to AcWriMo, breaking down my goals into concrete product <i>and process</i> steps has been particularly helpful. I teach three courses per semester and each course three days per week, so writing tends to happen in fits and starts, rather than regularly. And it's <i><b>much</b></i> too easy for me to prioritize my own work over collaborative work for which I'm not the PI. Probably not that unusual, but it holds up progress on multiple projects - particularly projects that involve undergraduate student co-authors. (Because those do exist.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This year, I was in a good position to move these projects to the forefront. I submitted an NIH grant and major revisions to a manuscript in October, so I had cleared the way for the more careful thought needed toward the beginning of a manuscript. And I committed - to myself, my writing group, and the AcWriMo community - that I would make progress on two student co-authored manuscripts (in addition to my higher-priority work). Here is where we stand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>The bad news</u>.</b> This month started out well. I set aside time for writing both during the week and on the weekend, and I <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/11/acwrimo-2015.html" target="_blank">made it to a coffee shop during the first week</a>. Then I was out of town for a conference; worked a bit while I was there, but picked up some awful throat-based plague from the airplane.* Came home to a raging throat/head cold that resulted in losing my voice for almost a week. In the middle of that week, I had longer-term medical issues to handle. (All VERY unusual for me - I'm pretty healthy!) So my process goal (two hours of writing per day on three days per week, at a coffee shop one day per week) was heavily disrupted during one of only two full weeks during the month. In addition, one of my student co-authors was supposed to make progress on our manuscript while I was gone. He ran into some roadblocks and ended up with no forward movement. That's life - we can't stop the unexpected. Fortunately, I learned a long time ago that flexibility wins the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>The good news</u>.</b> On the bright side, I submitted an internal grant proposal and an IRB application this month, and my revision was accepted. Moreover, I've accomplished something that I've long struggled to make work for me. Many of us like (and are most productive when we have) large chunks of time to write. Makes sense, as this allows us to become immersed in the project and focused on its needs. With shorter time frames, we barely get our heads back into the project before we have to move on. But as </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">my graduate mentor always told me, the most productive scholars are those who find ways to <a href="http://www.dailywritingtips.com/using-writing-bursts-to-generate-ideas-and-enthusiasm/" target="_blank">maximize 15-30 minute blocks for writing</a>. I believed him, though I never saw myself as capable of achieving this zen-like writing flow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">In the past two weeks, however, I've done this several times; 30 minutes here, 45 minutes there, 15 minutes on data analysis if need be. I find that this actually </span><i style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"><b>minimizes</b></i><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;"> the amount of time necessary to get my head back into the project. The more familiarity I have with the material, the less time it takes to orient myself, and the more I can get done in small chunks. Importantly, I'm also more enthusiastic about the project than I was when I procrastinated on it. This approach has allowed me to come close to finishing the first draft of a student co-authored manuscript, despite interruptions in my schedule. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally, I had the opportunity to give a <a href="https://www.scranton.edu/academics/provost/research/Research%20Seminar%20Series.shtml" target="_blank">research presentation</a> to the faculty at my institution yesterday. Preparing for, delivering, and answering questions during this event pulled some threads of my research program into sharper focus. And it seemed to go very well, which got me even more excited about finishing the semester strong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Toward the AcWriMo finish line</u>. </b>My goals are to continue with my 2/2/2h + 2-at-a-coffee-shop approach for the final week of AcWriMo, focused on finishing that manuscript draft and progressing on a grant application. The second manuscript might have to move back down the priority list if the student isn't able to make progress; I'll help him avoid this as much as I can. Looking forward to the final update in just over a week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Happy writing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>*Not surprising. Any time you fly to Orlando, you end up on a plane with sick children going to Disney World.</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-1148987009170969652015-11-01T19:08:00.000-05:002015-11-01T19:08:03.281-05:00#AcWriMo 2015!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>It's that time</u>! </b>November means <a href="http://www.phd2published.com/acwri-2/acbowrimo/about/" target="_blank">Academic Writing Month</a> (or #AcWriMo on Twitter). November is a difficult time for academic writing; we're in the thick of the semester, many of us have academic advisees who need attention, and many of us travel for Thanksgiving.* In solidarity, #AcWriMo allows academics to set goals, share them with each other online, encourage each other during the month, and hold each other accountable for progress. (Great timing with the <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/09/faculty-writing-accountability-at.html" target="_blank">writing group topic</a> I've been posting on!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Importantly, many participants set both <span style="color: purple;"><b><i>product</i></b></span> and <i><span style="color: purple;"><b>process</b></span></i> goals, or they emphasize the latter. The most difficult part about writing - especially when we're busy - is to stay in the habit. Setting and sticking to <i><b><span style="color: purple;">process goals</span></b></i> dramatically increases the likelihood of meeting product goals. In contrast, focusing on the product could mean several very late nights at the end of the semester or exhausting bursts of writing that leave little energy for other commitments. As the best have repeated, <a href="http://getalifephd.blogspot.com/2011/08/make-time-for-writing-every-day.html" target="_blank">writing consistently</a> is a healthier (and better) way to <a href="http://www.raulpacheco.org/2014/07/on-writing-every-day-for-two-hours-acwri/" target="_blank">get work done</a>.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><u>My #AcWriMo 2015</u>.</b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I was honored to be asked for an #AcWriMo-related guest post on one </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of my favorite blogs, </span><a href="http://stylishacademic.com/danis-acwrimo-plans/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Stylish Academic</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. (If you're an academic who likes fashion, this site is for you!) There, I describe why I love this event and what it did for me last year. In short, I was SUPER productive without killing myself. But please read the whole post for the full story, including this year's goals. As of today, I met a process goal and one product goal that I added at the last minute. Great way to start the month! (Above is visual evidence, in my weekend wear.)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">More to come as I update on my progress throughout the month. If you haven't signed up yet, please join us for a great month!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>*I have given up traveling during this very short break. Last year, I found myself refreshed for the end of the semester after spending time on both work and relaxation. I highly recommend taking the break, if you can.</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-18089542816036136772015-10-14T12:58:00.001-04:002015-10-14T12:59:19.440-04:00Writing Accountability Follow Up, and Living the Dream<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGyCiQ1CPkQwLfCRSgS10dfMO9PlF7jaua30JHtVKYtUBcIKlgrPgpXXNbwWOVwzW0_GjdJN4iC7rZdrK1P4ZDsxoBJtktBXLVNdwznnI6S8t-WkTlua4-ICdWepNKPryV-YK28r1lHJo/s1600/Writing+Group+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGyCiQ1CPkQwLfCRSgS10dfMO9PlF7jaua30JHtVKYtUBcIKlgrPgpXXNbwWOVwzW0_GjdJN4iC7rZdrK1P4ZDsxoBJtktBXLVNdwznnI6S8t-WkTlua4-ICdWepNKPryV-YK28r1lHJo/s200/Writing+Group+3.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b><u>Follow-up on writing accountability</u>.</b> Last time, I wrote in anticipation of our first faculty writing accountability group meeting at my institution. As we have faculty of all levels </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">and backgrounds participating, this session involved each member introducing him/herself, a research project or program, and goals for participating. I really enjoyed listening to my colleagues explain their interests and what they want help with during the program. (I'm a psychologist, so no surprise that I take pleasure in hearing about others' thought processes.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Interestingly, I noticed that the facilitators described the accountability process as provoking </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"guilt and shame,"</i></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> which motivates us via avoidance of negative outcomes/negative reinforcement. The science certainly supports this statement, though there is a flip side. I study <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_comparison_theory" target="_blank">social comparison</a>, which is inherent in any social activity; I've</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> learned that some people respond positively to negative social experiences (i.e., those that induce guilt and shame), and others don't. <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17437199.2011.634572#.Vh6I7_lViko" target="_blank">And some people respond positively at certain times and negatively at other times</a>. So in <a href="http://dhj.sagepub.com/content/1/2055207615583564" target="_blank">my partner-</a> and <a href="http://hpq.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/12/04/1359105314558895.full" target="_blank">group-based research</a>, I encourage a mix of tough love, empathy, and positive reinforcement. (The latter actually works best for increasing the frequency of behavior, but the reward has to come quickly.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As a clinician, I take the role of a cheerleader - I celebrate your success as often as possible (and encourage you to do the same, within reason). You should want to avoid disappointing me, but only if you're equally disappointed in yourself. If not, you won't keep up the behavior without my response. So I'm taking the same approach to my writing group/partner; I'll adjust if it seems as though my partner responds better to tough love.*</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSXhYpXMUFh-pezaOUZznbDCd7I8mi2TtK995TnfXpfL16QjTzdcrIFXChK4XnBCVSH4xoj93Jvuk-RuYnvHKyhKHtrzMeCvkQJcIXdCDIemiiWzQ9g43eAIqrJs6cGrU9Xkj2-O-8xfI/s1600/Writing+Group+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSXhYpXMUFh-pezaOUZznbDCd7I8mi2TtK995TnfXpfL16QjTzdcrIFXChK4XnBCVSH4xoj93Jvuk-RuYnvHKyhKHtrzMeCvkQJcIXdCDIemiiWzQ9g43eAIqrJs6cGrU9Xkj2-O-8xfI/s200/Writing+Group+2.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're partnered up based on similar interests and goals, and we'll meet with our partners each week to check in. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My partner is a professor of physical therapy</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> who wants some support through finishing a large-scale and long-term research synthesis; I asked her to keep me on track and focused in the face of many, many active projects. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once per month, we'll meet with the whole group to report on our progress and discuss writing more broadly. If all goes well, there will be a writing retreat in the future. So overall, great start! More to come as we hold each other accountable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>Living the dream</u>.</b> In the last week or so, I had two extremely positive experiences related to my academic career. The first came almost at random. It was 7:30 on Monday morning; I was already on campus (as I am on all teaching days), with three classes, office hours, and grant writing ahead of me. (Not unique in this field, for sure.) I went down the hall to make coffee, and as I returned to my office, I looked at my little corner of campus: the name plate on my door, the bulletin board across from my office that displays my research and related news, my lab down the hall. It occurred to me, for the first time in a while, that I have what I worked so hard to get for many years. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMkDj5UjkBedVctsBX2foh-XOQ9E4mxTyablehd2lJhl9kOWcdoCtAbNOR4fKRoG-IGmEy_jx-i3qAH8Dj6jB8rlvb7s17exHO8_DdX8RoOeYw5cwwadcaBdlmrkqU-DNODAv88qF798/s1600/Name+Plate.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMkDj5UjkBedVctsBX2foh-XOQ9E4mxTyablehd2lJhl9kOWcdoCtAbNOR4fKRoG-IGmEy_jx-i3qAH8Dj6jB8rlvb7s17exHO8_DdX8RoOeYw5cwwadcaBdlmrkqU-DNODAv88qF798/s200/Name+Plate.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For the better part of a decade, I've worked 60+ hours per week and <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2014/08/life-really.html" target="_blank">not taken real vacations</a>, in pursuit of a secure academic position. I've put off some life goals in order to focus on establishing myself in the new position. There always is more to do and always another hurdle (tenure next). But I stopped to appreciate what I've built, and to be grateful for the ability to do what I love. <i><span style="color: #990000;">I made it. Not everyone can say that.</span></i> It was a spontaneous and wonderful moment, and since then, I've tried to return to that mental space whenever I've found myself in need of a boost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I also had the chance to share this appreciation with the person most responsible for making it happen (other than me) - <i><span style="color: #990000;">my graduate mentor</span></i>. He was in town for the day to do some consulting work, and we met on my campus to catch up and discuss our ongoing projects. I got to give him a tour, show him my space, and walk him through a typical day. This incredibly successful person with a brilliant mind and a prestigious position gave me a chance to work for him ten years ago, and I got to show him the fruits of his labor. It was nerdy, exciting, and humbling all at the same time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><i>This is your life moment of the week:</i></b> There's always something to complain about. Stay connected to what you've accomplished and where you came from; it can remind you why you work as hard as you do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>*This is whole concept is much more complicated than I indicate here; perhaps fodder for a future post on this site or my research blog (drarigo.wordpress.com).</i></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2RIRyiARYxMIakeTR5-fdpWqPspy4-3s-3QuiYwCNVw2PQEGFa23vakZ_wIRZni25gOSM1dWnjtmDfB3o07qFQeCIL6sOd7_GKRgQNPABee9Y9PBmeNNg1e1IvGnFMddHsYJiajaljuw/s1600/Writing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2RIRyiARYxMIakeTR5-fdpWqPspy4-3s-3QuiYwCNVw2PQEGFa23vakZ_wIRZni25gOSM1dWnjtmDfB3o07qFQeCIL6sOd7_GKRgQNPABee9Y9PBmeNNg1e1IvGnFMddHsYJiajaljuw/s200/Writing.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Writing</u>.</b> It's critical to our success as academics, no matter where we are employed. And we all wish that we had more time for it, no matter how little time our universities or departments allocate to other activities. The pressure to produce has many documented <a href="http://www.ijustwanttoscience.com/for-undergrads/2014/11/12/mental-health-in-academia-part-2-publish-or-perish-literally" target="_blank">negative outcomes</a>, including poor sleep, mental health problems, and in some cases, <a href="http://consumergateway.org/2011/11/17/the-bewildering-case-of-fraudulent-psychologist-diederik-stapel/" target="_blank">data forgery</a>. Though nowhere is the tension between writing and not-writing more acute than at primarily undergraduate institutions that have high standards for research. (And often also have very high standards for service.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be fair, undergraduate institutions often have a broad definition of "research" - not just producing papers or books, but conference presentations, supervision of student thesis projects, and generally involving undergraduates in the process. But many still emphasize papers or books as "real" productivity; these seem to get more attention (both inside and outside the institution), and they are necessary to be competitive for external funding.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qPB_iXTWaCd_1dzLKBRQ98cVrEhSndoNiDagy6rG8RZMX5TE_gjWhL4c7TE3aPEqvBjdGz4mKbi-Xom7kQEWn3PJsuY-19TIdVIin0nJjJW-pBJ_l4DlqsnSmQFREcEDM1KBXbQe3Hc/s1600/Buried.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qPB_iXTWaCd_1dzLKBRQ98cVrEhSndoNiDagy6rG8RZMX5TE_gjWhL4c7TE3aPEqvBjdGz4mKbi-Xom7kQEWn3PJsuY-19TIdVIin0nJjJW-pBJ_l4DlqsnSmQFREcEDM1KBXbQe3Hc/s200/Buried.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So how do faculty with teaching loads of 3+ per semester make time for writing? <a href="http://www.raulpacheco.org/2013/04/my-top-10-academic-productivity-tips-or-how-i-submitted-5-pieces-in-3-weeks/" target="_blank">Write in the morning</a>, <a href="http://getalifephd.blogspot.com/2012/01/ten-ways-to-write-every-day.html" target="_blank">write every day</a>, <a href="https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/sheridan-center/consultations/academic-job-market-resources/first-year-faculty" target="_blank">close your door, say no</a>, etc. are well-known and well-used. But these are not always enough to ensure productivity when you have 100+ students each semester who all think they're paying for personal attention. Consequently, <a href="https://chroniclevitae.com/news/946-starting-an-online-writing-group" target="_blank">writing accountability groups</a> have become popular: partners or small groups agree to produce written work by a deadline and push each other to stay on task. These groups tap into social processes known to work for other behavior change efforts (weight loss, increasing physical activity). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For example, large-scale endeavors such as <a href="https://suwtuesdays.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Shut Up and Write Tuesdays</a> (#SUWT) allow participants from all over the world to write simultaneously, check in, and receive encouragement from others in the same boat. So you get opportunities for support, reinforcement, and social comparison all rolled into one. Similarly, there is a positive pressure via public commitment of goals. In smaller groups, the added benefit is that someone is supposed to hold your feet to the fire and not take any excuses for lack of productivity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>But how does "holding someone accountable" actually work</u>?</b> I use all of these <a href="http://dhj.sagepub.com/content/1/2055207615583564" target="_blank">social principles in my interventions</a> for health behavior change, with success thus far. But one challenge is helping partners/group members to be effective disciplinarians, without discouraging the participants they're supposed to he helping. To date, I've taught research participants to communicate with each other about what is and is not helpful. Some people want and respond well to a Jillian Michaels approach, whereas others need a softer touch. I've encouraged my participants to reflect on this and communicate their needs to their partners/groups, which seems like a decent place to start. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But decades of psychology research show us that we don't always know what's best for us, or what will be most effective for instigating change. So how can we select the most effective accountability team for enhancing our productivity? </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I ponder this question in response to our upcoming writing group at my primarily undergraduate institution. Faculty from different disciplines, at different career levels, with different goals will try to help each other accomplish something over the next few months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The group coordinators had the insight to ask for our preferences for partners, and I found myself unsure of how to respond. Would someone inside or outside my discipline provide the most useful feedback? Someone equally junior, or much more senior? Although I've been fairly successful so far, I know that I can learn a lot from those who have struggled; but what is it, specifically, that I need from them? What should I share about me that would be relevant for other members?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>My current support network</u>. </b>I have an ongoing accountability agreement with a good friend from graduate school; we are immensely helpful to each other, but this happens in fits and starts, and I'd like to be more consistent about it. I'm starting another agreement with a friend from grad school whom I greatly admire, and I'm all about the positive-outcome social comparisons. I also have the privilege of writing alongside some excellent scholars on Twitter, whose success and encouragement motivate me (@iladylayla, @ATRWibben, @josephsonjyl). All of this has taught me that my ideal partner would be consistent, encouraging, and not take any excuses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the week</u>:</b> Our first writing accountability meeting at my institution is tomorrow. I need to prepare! Very much looking forward to it and to opportunities to reflect on group processes.</span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-75113202712907292502015-08-19T08:43:00.002-04:002015-08-19T08:44:04.102-04:00On to Year Two<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>It's that time</u>. </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's tough to believe that a full year has gone by already. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The fall semester starts in five days, so it's time to finish up syllabi and make sure the semester research plan is in order. I'm teaching two sections of my regular course (<b>Abnormal Psychology</b>) and a new course for me (<b>Personality & Individual Differences; P-ID</b>). I'm hoping that I'll find myself in a comfortable rhythm with Abnormal and that I'll be able to devote a bit more attention to P-ID. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The latter is not only new, but intriguing. It's based on the question of "what makes people different?" Meaning that we can cover anything that differs between people, which is A LOT. In addition to the typical personality-related material (theory, testing), I've added content related to <b><i><span style="color: #351c75;">gender, body image, optimism, health, regulatory focus, and stress</span></i></b>. Then students get to choose constructs that are not covered by the syllabus and present them to the class. The goal is to discuss as many areas of interest as possible, and also to contrast the P-ID approach with a within-person process approach. We'll see how this goes over with undergraduates. No <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html" target="_blank">Twitter and no tech tools</a> this time. Though I look forward to using those with my <b>Health Psychology </b>class in the Spring :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>Also, progress</u>. </b>In addition to preparing for courses, there is the necessary "tenure track progress update" to make sure that I'm on target for demonstrating a <i>positive trajectory</i>. It's this piece that I find myself wondering about these days. I have another self-report due at the beginning of October, so I get to start building my case, rather than just summarizing what I've done this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I met the goals I set for myself last year, which seems like a good start. I have real course evaluations and they're pretty good; I have more students participating in research and I'm moving from internal to external grant proposals. That's what I've got so far. More to come when I figure out the rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>The fun stuff</u>. </b>But before I worry too much about my official paperwork, I'm taking a page out of Nyasha Junior's book and <a href="http://conditionallyaccepted.com/2014/05/13/faculty-awards/" target="_blank">giving myself some off-the-official-record awards</a>. For 2014-2015 (year one), I give myself the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Most internal grant proposals by a </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">first-year faculty member</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Best effort to use social media in the classroom (Twitter, "the dress")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Best smothering of automatic laughter in response to ridiculous comments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5. Best food at lab meetings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. Best effort to teach through laryngitis during the first week of class</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. Most trips to the campus Starbucks for 50-cent coffee refills</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Most recorded "no" responses (to requests for service) from a first-year faculty member</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks to Nyasha (@NyashaJunior) for this great idea, and to Kevin Gannon (@TheTatooedProf) for his fantastic and welcoming <a href="http://www.thetattooedprof.com/archives/440" target="_blank">Academic New Year's Resolution</a> post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the week</u>:</b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We all could use a good year, so my goal is to focus on the positive :) And to take a damn vacation.</span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-61716969103146031482015-07-01T16:00:00.000-04:002015-07-01T16:00:02.561-04:00Taking Back My Summer<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Noteworthy progress</u>. </b>In my <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/06/first-summer-as-faculty-planning-gone.html" target="_blank">last post</a>, I described my failure to protect summer vacation/personal time in favor of a long list of commitments. Although most of these commitments are productive and/or enjoyable, their combined requirements do not leave a great deal of time for much-needed relaxation and not working. I'm happy to report that the tide has turned somewhat, just before the next wave of the workload hits. How did this happen, and how can I maintain balance for the remainder of the summer?</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Blogging (and otherwise disclosing) helps</u>. </b>Once I acknowledged that I had only myself to blame for my increasing (rather than decreasing) stress, I stepped back and looked at the calendar. I took stock of what I had accomplished to that point in the summer, and how much time was left to work on the rest. I felt relief from realizing that the balance looked much better than I expected. I also asked myself what <i><b><span style="color: blue;">really</span></b></i> needs to be finished this summer, by when, and whether these goals are realistic; what will I lose if I fall behind on X? Finally, I looked ahead to the 2015-2016 academic year and accepted that I cannot take on any additional commitments until next summer. And I started saying no in advance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Travel helps</u>. </b>My reality-testing process received the assistance of two recent road trips. One was a four-day, <a href="http://bbh.hhd.psu.edu/" target="_blank">combined work/leisure trip</a>. This split left me able to feel good about getting some work done with collaborators in addition to not working and catching up with graduate school friends. Importantly, I made the 2.5-hour commutes alone, so I had time to myself to think and space out as needed. I came back tired from a strange sleep schedule, but more relaxed than I have been in a while. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The second trip was more hectic: PA --> VT --> MA --> PA in four days, celebrating a wedding and an engagement. The wedding was lovely and afforded several unique opportunities. I'm not a country girl, and getting away to rural VT was a new experience. Actual country stores that are not operated by <a href="http://www.crackerbarrel.com/" target="_blank">Cracker Barrel</a>? I just wish I'd had more time to explore; I was there for less than 24 hours and it rained most of the time. But I also got to reconnect with more graduate school friends, which always leaves me feeling grounded. Then on to MA. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As I'm the matron of honor* for the engaged couple (wedding in August of 2016), and as I live several states away from the action, I made an effort to fulfill some role expectations during the trip. As far as I can tell, it worked out well for everyone!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">During this four-day excursion, I did not work. I checked email only sporadically. I responded only to urgent messages. Very unusual for me. But very healthy. And nothing went wrong without my replies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the week</u>.</b> I returned to work today feeling less stressed than I have in a while, and I was able to complete tasks such as cleaning out my email inbox and writing this post. I also met with our Office of Sponsored Programs about a grant and upgraded another short trip I'm about to take. And I'll end the workday with an exercise class that makes me feel great. This is more like the summer I had planned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>*Matron? Really? Sounds so old....</i></span></div>
Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-83471183188557902712015-06-16T09:27:00.000-04:002015-06-16T09:27:09.790-04:00First Summer as Faculty: Planning Gone Wrong<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Failure</u>.</b> I've written a lot about success this year. It's time for a confession about failure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As a new faculty member, I've had a great year. I've been incredibly <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/05/newfaculty-first-year-review-part-2.html" target="_blank">fortunate and more productive</a> than expected. But for me, the downside of fortune and productivity is that it feeds on itself, adding fuel to a motivational fire that was humming along already. In the current academic climate (i.e., the intense need for productivity in order to receive promotion and tenure), isn't motivation a positive? Sure. But there is a point of diminishing returns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Continuing to present and publish while t</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">eaching three courses, <a href="https://drarigo.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/introducing-health-psychology-at-the-university-of-scranton/" target="_blank">running a large lab of undergraduates</a>, and volunteering for service work is rewarding, but it's a lot to track at any given time. (Sub any combination of teaching/research/service here. It's a lot.) Because <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2014/08/life-really.html" target="_blank">I'm already not so good at achieving work-life balance</a>, I started my summer planning early. I promised myself that I would take it easy this summer. Work on a few projects at a leisurely pace, TAKE A REAL VACATION, and eventually prep for fall. Sleep in. Work from home a lot. And just relax in general. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The thought of having a summer like this kept me going through the gray, hectic days of Spring semester. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u>Then it started</u>.</b> In January, I saw an NIH Request for Proposals that fit a planned project, and decided to shoot for an October submission. (My first as PI. Reasonable.) I need pilot data for the proposal, and I had planned to run a "small" study in the Spring that would support the application. Then I realized - quite at the last minute - that my institution offers competitive "grants" (stipends) for summer research. So I pulled together an application in March. I also applied for an NIH training program, which required two written applications and a phone interview between January and March. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because I don't have graduate students or a research coordinator, the small pilot study took a considerable amount of m</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">y time. The opportunity arose for a second (very small) pilot, currently underway. Students requested RA work for the summer. I got the summer grant and got into the training program. And I'm traveling for two weddings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each of these experiences has paid off, but has app</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ropriated a chunk of the summer:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And August? Make major progress on the grant application, revise one course, and complete a brand new prep. Classes start the 24th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>How did this happen</u>? </b>This isn't some sort of humblebrag about what a great workaholic I am. I'm frustrated and disappointed with myself. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had PLANNED to take a break, and I'm only now realizing how much I need it. I dread the idea of starting Fall semester without one, as I can see myself burnt out by the third week. I'm on track for major failure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What are my options? I've come up with: (1) continue to push through while frustrated, with sounds like a recipe for disaster, (2) take a long vacation in August and sacrifice some prep time, (3) work in smaller breaks that maximize work and rest, and (4) give up, and waste the great opportunities I have.* Right now, I'm leaning toward #3, though I haven't figured out quite how to do it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For example, I took a long lunch break yesterday (90 minutes) to socialize with colleagues. It was great, but I got back to my office feeling acutely stressed about work. That seems backward. I went for a run, took the evening off, and got some extra sleep. I still feel stressed today, but I've made some progress, and I can see a way forward. The way includes booking next year's summer vacation <b><i>now</i></b>, so that I don't have any excuses. And I'm working from home on Friday :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">*<i>What other options do you see, and how have you managed summer overcommitment? Leave your thoughts in the comments!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-58443698724419284652015-05-27T10:12:00.000-04:002015-05-27T10:12:35.201-04:00#NewFaculty: First Year Review (Part 2)<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Relief</u>. </b>Spring semester is now <i>officially</i> over, which means that I have even more time and head space to reflect on the first year. As I described in <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2014/07/renewal-and-reading.html" target="_blank">previous posts</a> and <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2015/05/newfaculty-first-year-review-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> of this series, it seems that new faculty make one of the following major mistakes:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They are unaware of the immense amount of junior faculty-specific</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> information and advice available (see </span><a href="http://conditionallyaccepted.com/2013/08/27/advice-new-professors/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for a great collection), or</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They take the trouble to familiarize themselves with this advice, and then they ignore it. For example, never saying "no" to service requests and keeping their doors open all the time, which leave little time for actual work.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong - I understand the impulse to please new (and powerful) colleagues and to be perceived as a team player. But you simply cannot be productive if you say "yes" to every request. My technique is to ask myself the following:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Is this an activity I think is important, and/or that I would enjoy?</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>What is the <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">actual</span></b> time commitment? (ASK ASK ASK)</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Do I absolutely need to do this NOW, or can it wait?</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The last is critical. My institution has many mechanisms for supporting faculty development, including internal grants, special programs, and service positions for untenured faculty. But my sense is that both my department and our rank and tenure committee want to see <i>progress</i>. If I do everything in my first year or two - especially the opportunities for which new (vs. returning) applicants are favored - what am I going to do after that? So I focus on pacing myself, and on declining some requests as graciously as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>What went well</u>?</b> I think that I successfully protected my time (without angering anyone <i>too</i> much) this year. The evidence is in </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the positive feedback I received and the concrete output I produced. These include:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mostly positive teaching evaluations (and useful specific recommendations),*</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An active research lab with many involved undergraduates,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Acceptance to a competitive and prestigious <a href="http://www.downstate.edu/pride/index.html" target="_blank">training institute for junior faculty</a> (paid for by the National Institutes of Health),</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Awards of a Teaching Enhancement Grant (to create a new course) and a Faculty Summer Research Grant (to write papers and a grant; both internal),</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Publication of <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danielle_Arigo/contributions" target="_blank">six empirical articles</a>** (with five more, and two book chapters, in press),</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Attendance at four conferences** (presented one talk and 12 posters, two with current students),</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Data collection completed for two studies (a third approved to begin), and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reappointment for a second year.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>What didn't go so well</u>? </b>This is a fantastic first year, and I'm immensely grateful. But there were some meaningful failures to learn from. Of course I got rejected from several sources: <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>at least three paper rejections</b></span> (one that I was particularly disappointed about and one that outraged me***), as well as a rejection on an internal fellowship for a </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">student</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> RA</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Rejections are always difficult, but I'm more resilient than I used to be. Asking for feedback and carefully considering reviewers' comments are on my agenda.</span></div>
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I tried new techniques and relied more consistently on undergraduate TAs, which made me a bit less confident than I had been previously (when I used only me, and methods I knew to be effective for me). </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also created a course in my topic area and went out of my way to make it advanced, different, and fun. Imagine my disappointment when this failed to be the case, pretty consistently.**** Of many reasons for this disconnect, I believe that one was prepping on the go; I spent more time on this course than on the others (which were repeats of first semester), but not as much as I could have. Although course evaluations were much better than I expected, the experience of the class was frustrating. Lots to tweak for next Spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And though I've yet to see any evidence of this, there is always the possibility that I chose poorly with respect to service commitments. I've become involved with our union in small ways, which makes me (slightly) visible during difficult contract negotiations; this could come back to bite me if the atmosphere worsens. But I like this work, so I'll stick with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>This is your life moment of the week</u>: </b>I did it! I navigated the first year <i><b>and</b></i> got some work done. Pretty great accomplishment, for me and anyone else in the same boat. Kudos if that's you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now it's time to make my <a href="https://tenureshewrote.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/summer-plans/" target="_blank">Summer Plan</a>.****</span></div>
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Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-80410047204057420822015-05-19T09:17:00.001-04:002015-05-31T14:19:06.920-04:00#NewFaculty: First Year Review (Part 1)<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>I'm back</u>! </b>It's been a long semester, full of new course prep, student presentations, c</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">onference travel, and yes, some meaningful research productivity. I admit that staying on top of everything has been more challenging this semester (Spring, my second) than last. As flexible time has diminished, I've wondered what a typical day will look like in years two and three - when I also have academic advisees and increased service obligations. Yet I do have the sense that I've built a strong foundation for managing academic life, which will ease the way for adding to it in the next few years. The following is a start to what stands out when I look back on the first year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What does work? Some tried-and-true methods such as <a href="http://getalifephd.blogspot.com/2011/10/find-your-prime-time-and-use-it-to.html" target="_blank">scheduling time for writing</a> and actually <i>being</i> unavailable during that time. During my first semester, I left my office door open whenever I was in, to make sure everyone knew I was here. (Some of them do pay close attention to this.) Before students and colleagues knew me, this didn't promote a lot of drop-bys; but that lasted only a few weeks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now that I've established my schedule and I've made it <b><span style="color: blue;">absolutely clear to students that they need an appointment to see me</span></b>, I keep my door closed for significant portions of the day. I get in early, so my door is closed for the first 2-3 hours I'm here. I get writing, administrative tasks, and course prep done with very few interruptions. And I'm not afraid to say no to requests for meetings during these blocks of time, especially on teaching days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Finding colleagues who share and/or complement your skills and interests. </b>This is critical at teaching-focused institution, as time for research and writing can be scarce. When other faculty have suggested that I "really should talk to Dr. X - you have similar interests," I listen. I make time to meet Dr. X and I share some of my work in the conversation; I also mention the skills or interests that might set me apart from other faculty, so that Dr. X knows that I might be useful in a particular area. (I find that a love of data analysis comes in handy.) Ask for feedback on your ideas and offer some to them. For example, I asked my university-assigned mentor to collaborate on a grant application, and it seems to be mutually beneficial thus far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some of the most fortuitous meetings are due solely to luck, like mine with my mentor - the assignment was random. But you can increase your chances. One of the best ways to increase the odds is to <b><span style="color: blue;">go to meetings and other university events</span></b>. You get seen, you get known, and you can steer yourself toward opportunities. Think like you would at a conference: "How can I effectively network?"</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh39qI_lfPDbp923llYpQj39o3v_L12gdY1b0kS6s_b5CC4jMKSBFB58tXUlPuZyBXtBPeR6SIS056jwD93fQCf62lSBNTPOsun8jPacIL-Z8wRG8PTivfP2k3mH7X2O3_9rWiYCsuP2qs/s1600/Faculty+Meeting.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh39qI_lfPDbp923llYpQj39o3v_L12gdY1b0kS6s_b5CC4jMKSBFB58tXUlPuZyBXtBPeR6SIS056jwD93fQCf62lSBNTPOsun8jPacIL-Z8wRG8PTivfP2k3mH7X2O3_9rWiYCsuP2qs/s200/Faculty+Meeting.png" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Does this take time out of an already busy schedule? Can it seem to take over all of your flexible (i.e., writing) time? Absolutely. But many ECRs focus only on the losses, and think they have to go to every event. Be choosy! Go to the events where like-minded people tend to be, and where you'll learn something useful even if Dr. X doesn't show. (If you don't know this information, ask ahead of time!)</span><br />
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Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-37771991329464136002015-03-16T16:34:00.004-04:002015-03-16T16:34:48.817-04:00Teaching Science* at the College Level<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="color: #656565;">This is a revised post from my second blog, </span><a href="https://drarigo.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Healthy Science</span></a><span style="color: #656565;">, which is now the official site of the Clinical Health Psychology Research Team at the University of Scranton.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's Spring Break time at my institution, and I have that strange sense that the semester is both flying by and crawling along. This semester is much busier than the last, though I've managed to stay (mostly) afloat as I progress toward the end of my first year. One topic that's been on my mind for a while now (i.e., from before I started here) is<i> how to teach and mentor in the scientific method, in a way that students find engaging?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By "science*," I mean scientific thinking in any discipline. In the physical sciences (biology, chemistry, etc.), it's reasonable to expect that students come to college with at least a rudimentary understanding of what it means to "do science" - run an experiment, write up the results, etc. And those who are majors should be moderately interested in doing this regularly. We wouldn't necessarily have the same expectation of an English or history major, but the methods for these disciplines are more similar than people think. But it seems that psychology is in a unique gap between the perceptions of hard sciences and the perceptions of liberal arts. But unless they had fantastic high school teachers, few students come to psychology with an understanding of what it really MEANS that "psychology is the <strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">scientific study</em></strong> of human behavior." And the vast majority haven't a clue that psychology involves biology, chemistry, physics, math, and other subjects they think they want to avoid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #656565;">One experience in particular brought this to mind before I started my current job. In my effort to start thinking and </span><a href="http://theprofessorisin.com/category/stop-acting-like-a-grad-student/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">acting like a professor</span></a><span style="color: #656565;">, I attended an </span><a href="http://www.drexel.edu/sts/news/calendar/details/?eid=3731&iid=12401" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">interesting seminar</span></a><span style="color: #656565;"> on the subject of involving more students in research experiences at the undergraduate level. </span><a href="http://www.drexel.edu/biology/contact/facultyDirectory/Stanford/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Dr. Jennifer Stanford</span></a><span style="color: #656565;">, a biology professor at Drexel University who researches STEM educational practices, presented evidence that supports the positive relationship between research experiences and graduation rates. (Both student-selected experiences and university outreach programs.) She also noted that these experiences are time- and resource-intensive on the part of faculty, so few are willing to extend their expertise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More recently, I've spent a lot of time talking with psychology students about what it means to "think like a scientist." I was surprised to realize that even bright students who sign up for research assistantships - who have taken several history, methods, and statistics courses (and some of whom have worked in other research labs) - have a difficult time answering this question. It's clear to me that they recognize the importance of the topic. So why the lack of confidence in their answers? Does this essential, fundamental issue fail to meet the long-term retention threshold? On the contrary, it seems that the answers that make sense to them never are encoded in the first place. My discussions with students continued through Socratic questioning, thought experiments, and examples using topics of individual interest. I'm pleased that these discussions seemed to be productive, and engaging to the students. But why was this the first time they had participated in such a conversation? They're not new to this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And of course, this brings us back to Dr. Stanford's seminar. One reason that intensive research experiences can be so beneficial is that they allow time for the kind of discussions I had with students, which not all students have access to. Moreover, even students who have access to research positions don't always get the kind of attention they need to facilitate independent thinking. <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Problem</span>: Being a good teacher and mentor takes time and effort, which many professors don't have. Not putting in the time and effort means we're not doing justice to the mission of higher education. Putting in the time and effort means that something else has to give.</em> <strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Or does it?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #656565; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For my money, the most helpful aspect of Dr. Stanford's seminar were her suggestions for creative ways to involve large numbers of students in "research" by giving them opportunities to think like scientists. For example, rather than writing a typical research paper at the end of the semester, students at any level write a hypothetical research proposal: an interesting question, a bit about what we know and don't know, and how we would test a hypothesis. This isn't exactly a novel idea, but we tend to reserve it for advanced seminars. Opening it up to introductory courses and allowing students to write about what they find most interesting could have multiple benefits. I planned to use this in my Intro Psych class in the fall, though I switched as the semester approached. In the future, </span><span style="color: #656565; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">gearing the semester toward this assignment could help to connect the disparate sub-disciplines in psyc</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #656565;">hology, which </span><a href="http://fixingpsychology.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-should-intro-textbook-do.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">introductory textbooks (and classes) often fail to do</span></a><span style="color: #656565;">. I di</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #656565;">d recently use it in my new </span><a href="https://drarigo.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/hp284-new-health-psychology-course-at-the-university-of-scranton/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Health Psychology course, where students did an excellent job</span></a><span style="color: #656565;"> of generating original research ideas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #656565;">What other ideas are out there? Save me some time by linking to journal articles and <span id="goog_1709446454"></span></span><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/12/14/re-thinking-the-way-colleges-teach-critical-thinking/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">other blogs</span></a><span style="color: #656565;"> <span id="goog_1709446455"></span>that offer similarly creative suggestions - I know they're out there :)</span></span></div>
Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-59622823947205319732015-02-11T10:34:00.001-05:002015-02-11T10:34:17.193-05:00On Research and Running<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Running</u>? </b>If you've been in academia for any length of time, you may have noticed that a considerable number of faculty are runners (or triathletes, etc.). I doubt that academia has THE highest concentration of runners in any field, but I suspect that we'd be high up on the list.* </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And not casual weekend warriors; serious 5 or 10K runners, half-marathoners, and marathoners. Maybe even an ultrarunner or two. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Although training and racing are becoming more and more popular, the general public still seems to think that voluntarily forcing your body to move quickly along a stretch of road, track, trail, or treadmill belt would be torture. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.active.com/health/articles/why-too-much-running-is-bad-for-your-health" target="_blank">Some even go as far as to claim that running is "dangerous"</a> - a claim that has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/upshot/no-more-running-probably-isnt-bad-for-you.html?abt=0002&abg=1" target="_blank">not held up well under scrutiny</a>. Though it's true that running is</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> tough on your body and there's risk for injury; if you want to be healthy, why not do something less effortful, like biking? Especially given that academics work long and hard hours outside the classroom? WHY? </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As a runner, I find this noticeable overlap compelling.</span><br />
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<a href="http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/666*367/Spring+Garden+Bridge.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/images/666*367/Spring+Garden+Bridge.PNG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>My "running in academia" story</u>.</b> Like many health-conscious undergrads, I went to the </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">gym, and sometimes even jogged outside. (I use the now-pejorative term "jogged," because I had no idea what I was doing then. I just made my way from University City to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, over the Spring Garden Bridge, and back.) I did very little exercise during the transition to graduate school. Like many students, I loved my work but found the daily grind somewhat lacking. I wanted something to focus on, for me, that had nothing to do with work accomplishments or relationships.</span><br />
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width="133" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I started running for real in 2008, during my third year in graduate school. Two factors contributed to the change: (1) </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I happened across an inexpensive copy of <a href="http://www.halhigdon.com/" target="_blank">Hal Higdon's </a></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.halhigdon.com/" target="_blank">Marathon</a>, </i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Bible of first-time training advice, and</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> (2) </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a good friend (and experienced runner) was training for a marathon</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. I picked up the book thinking that it would be handy for "someday." And as my friend enjoyed company on her training runs, I benefited from observing her motivation and discipline. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Six marathons and an ultramarathon in, I transitioned to a faculty position. Because of the upheaval, I decided not to run a marathon during that season. I missed it terribly. I ran a half marathon and somehow injured my hip, which hasn't been the same since. I run on my treadmill most days, but I'm nervous about getting back out on the road, where the injury tends to flare up. Have my research or teaching suffered? Probably not, but my stress level and general well-being have. Something is missing without running.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><u>So, what's the connection</u>? </b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't suggest that academics who run do so for the same reasons I do, but perhaps there is some overlap. We tend to be overachievers who are used to (and like?) pushing ourselves to excel. We test our limits. We like time to think - and there's actually precious little of that in a regular day. We're disciplined, and many of us like practicing our discipline in various ways. Running is a great way to say healthy and sane amidst all of the deadlines and meetings. And there's the obvious, and true, "grad school/pre-tenure is a marathon, not a sprint" comparison. I suspect there are many more reasons why academia and running mesh well. <b>Share your ideas in the comments!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>*A quick Google search reveals no such list, but perhaps <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/" target="_blank">Runner's World</a> can take up the charge!</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-40498430847043604802015-01-27T09:52:00.000-05:002018-10-18T09:50:25.966-04:00On Being an Early-Career Researcher in Digital Health: Part 2<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Recap</u>.</b> Research in digital health (eHealth, mHealth, big data in healthcare) is a hot area with considerable room for growth. But working in this field has some potential pitfalls that early-career researchers (ECRs) need to consider before jumping in. Last time, I described some of the expenses associated with this work and some ways that ECRs can plan for these. I also noted that this work is <b>time-consuming</b>, which is today's topic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Time is a commodity in academia, and the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/jun/13/managing-academic-stress" target="_blank">stress of effectively managing one's time</a> is especially high for ECRs - we're just getting the hang of what works and what doesn't, after all. Of course, any research project* can be time- and effort-consuming, and <i>perhaps</i> more so for ECRs. We're less likely to have large collaborative networks, and in our networks, we have less clout than more established researchers. We're also just establishing our labs and identifying responsible RAs. So projects aren't always completed on our intended schedules, and we end up doing much of the work ourselves. This stalls our progress and creates undue worry about achieving tenure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In digital health, it's possible that you're actually unable to do all of the work yourself. For example, if I wanted to design a web program to deliver a new intervention, I would need a computer programmer's assistance. Same goes for collecting data in real time via smartphone app. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As with reducing costs and/or accessing technology, maximizing the benefits of collaborations is essential for time management. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you're collaborating with non-academics, there is a good chance that your ideas about "complete" and "timely" work will not align with theirs. This could lead to a great deal of time and effort spent chasing down the products you need. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See here for some </span><a href="https://theresearchwhisperer.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/toxic-collaborator/?utm_content=buffer499d9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">signs that your collaborations are toxic</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Two other considerations</u></b> about time management in digital health research. It's intuitive to expect that technology will <span style="color: #990000;"><b>decrease the time and effort</b></span> that you need to spend managing data collection. Indeed, something like switching from in-person to internet survey administration frees up many hours that would have been devoted to participant supervision. But this exchange is not equal across all devices, platforms, and methods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Take the aforementioned real-time data collection as an example. Once the app is set up, you just let it run and the data come rolling in, right? Anyone who has ever worked with this type of <a href="https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=LsjLb4KYrJQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA54&dq=challenges+of+ecological+momentary+assessment&ots=CPZAGaFB1s&sig=oY2PD9AULecSV7NIs7ge0aT41Qg#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">ecological momentary assessment procedure</a> is laughing right now. Bugs in your app, device problems, and most of all, participant error will take more time to address than you can imagine. And managing the resulting data is a job I would never, ever want.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYECVnUzpbl8KLtvLD-IkDpdP5QJ_HH9LDMCwrsGyGIlZvurCBOrdL6wePSs19suqK89XQje9GAVHVhyphenhyphen2KzytQ9WFk8-OzNogS-iO3IPhFHA5m1WcumTagDVlqczOJlAvjeQeQTu-DUYc/s1600/Digital+Weight+Loss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYECVnUzpbl8KLtvLD-IkDpdP5QJ_HH9LDMCwrsGyGIlZvurCBOrdL6wePSs19suqK89XQje9GAVHVhyphenhyphen2KzytQ9WFk8-OzNogS-iO3IPhFHA5m1WcumTagDVlqczOJlAvjeQeQTu-DUYc/s1600/Digital+Weight+Loss.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Similarly, take a <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25488937" target="_blank">web-based behavior change program</a>. Once the platform is set up, even if it's been plot-tested, monitoring use, responding to problems, and managing any participant interaction takes more time than you expect. Students are fantastic and helpful in some respects, but they have myriad other responsibilities and will never treat the project with the same care you will. One more reason to pursue funding as early and often as possible: if you have professional staff, you don't have to bear this burden yourself. (It is my goal in life to get a grant that allows me to hire a professional research coordinator.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Finally, <span style="color: #990000;"><b>keeping up with advancements in the field</b></span> presents unique challenges in digital health. As noted, the field is exploding, with new papers <a href="http://www.sagepub.com/press/2014/june/4.sp" target="_blank">and journals</a> appearing every week. Moreover, technology evolves, especially in commercial industry, at an alarming rate. By the time you hear about a device or platform, design a study, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">learn how to use</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the technology, hire/train others, and collect the data, your technology is out of date. Then you have to write papers, wrangle any collaborators, deal with peer review and rejection.... by the time you actually publish your findings, the current technology is much more sophisticated than what you used. If behavioral science is your field, then the technology matters less than the way it's used. But if not, have a plan for how you'll deal with criticisms about living in the digital past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>What other challenges do you see for digital health ECRs, or ECRs more broadly? Post your comments below.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>*I'm currently reading Joel Cooper's <b>Cognitive Dissonance: Fifty Years of Classic Theory</b>, which describes many of the key studies in this social psychology area. It's reconnected me with my incredible respect for social psychology research. You want time-consuming? They use rigorous experimental methods to test complex theories, using multiple moderators, confederates, and elaborate cover stories. Impressive.</i></span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-78737568735740840722015-01-22T09:02:00.000-05:002018-10-18T08:18:28.330-04:00On Being an Early-Career Researcher in Digital Health: Part 1<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>We're back</u>!</b> A late Happy New Year, with wishes that 2015 has started off well. If you're an academic, it's likely that your Spring semester has started. Scranton has the luxury of a long intersession, so we still have 10 days to go. (If I'm being honest, I'll acknowledge that I've been back to work every day in January. Who can resist the call of flexible time to write papers?) You can rub it in when I'm still teaching in May.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have had a productive intersession so far, and both papers and a fellowship application have given me plenty of opportunity to consider where I want my work to go next. Most signs point to digital tools for health behavior change, though as an early-career researcher (ECR), I hesitate to throw all of my energy in this direction. For a few reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u><i>Full disclosure</i></u><i>.</i></b><i> Digital Health is not my area of specialization, but it is one of my interests, and my work moves more and more in this direction. In fact, this theme has come to unify a few of the disparate threads of my research. This post is a reflection on the opportunities and challenges for an ECR with interest in digital health who does not already have ample funding.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://storyofdigitalhealth.com/" target="_blank">Digital health</a> is a term that encompasses the use of technology in health promotion and healthcare, including mobile health (mHealth, or mobile applications), eHealth (electronic health, or web platforms/email), and wearable technology (Fitbits and the like). As such, it brings together computer programmers and software designers, engineers, medical specialists, big data analysts, entrepreneurs looking to design "the next big thing." And - arguably the most important - behavioral scientists. <a href="http://www.scranton.edu/faculty/arigod/" target="_blank">I'm biased</a>, of course, but hear me out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example, I can hardly count the number of recent <a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2089651&utm_source=Silverchair%20Information%20Systems&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JAMA%3AOnlineFirst01%2F08%2F2015" target="_blank">scientific papers</a> and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/20/us-apps-fitness-behavior-idUSKBN0KT2GU20150120" target="_blank">news articles</a> that point to the simultaneous potential of wearable technology and/or mHealth apps and their failure to promote lasting health behavior change. Nearly all of these articles explicitly name behavioral science as missing or underappreciated in these domains. Indeed, what interests me in this area is identifying the missing link; my <a href="http://hpq.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/12/04/1359105314558895.abstract" target="_blank">recent</a> and <a href="http://www.sbm.org/UserFiles/file/am15-prelim-v10.pdf" target="_blank">forthcoming work</a> has shown preliminary support for improvements to our use of technology-connected online social networks to facilitate and sustain behavior change. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Each of these publications, including mine, involves a call to arms for larger, more rigorous, more cost-effective tests of improvements to digital health interventions. The time is now to strike in a hot area, which few ECRs ever get to to. Perfect! Except.... damn, this work is expensive and time-consuming. Today, I'll focus on expense; part two will cover the time commitment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Expense</u>.</b> With wearables, it's the device ($90-$150) <span style="color: #990000;"><b>for each participant</b>;</span> with new apps or web platforms, it's their development (which I would have to pay someone to do); for either one, the convention is to offer some sort of monetary compensation for participants' time. I did get away with offering only the device and treatment in a recent study; I had 100% retention of 12 participants over four weeks. But this sample size and time frame aren't that impressive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An obvious source of funding for these needs is a new faculty member's startup package. If you're a new faculty member at a research-oriented institution, and your institution understands the resources required for digital health, and you did your homework before negotiating, skip this section. But let's examine whether this is a common situation. Startup packages seem to be the privilege of only those hired to the tenure track. (A good friend of mine just accepted a non-tenure track, teaching/research faculty hybrid at an R1, and got only enough to cover her statistical software needs.) If you're at a non-R1, you might have to play hardball to get an administrator who is not familiar with digital health to pony up more startup money than s/he believes you deserve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On, and you <i>may</i> have heard that, in the US and <a href="http://thesiswhisperer.com/2014/02/19/is-it-possible-to-escape-the-casual-teaching-trap/" target="_blank">elsewhere</a>, the <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/The-Long-Odds-of-the/139361/" target="_blank">tenure track is disappearing</a>. So if you're hired into a short-term teaching faculty position, you'll need to write a grant proposal. Are you eligible for internal grants? Pray that the answer is yes; at many institutions, your status excludes you from both internal funds and government grants. Unless you can get a longer-term commitment based on your grant award. Meaning you have to get the grant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The same goes for many postdoctoral fellowships in the US. If you're in a formal training program that provides individual funding, great! Again, skip. But a good number of fellowships do not come with project funding, and same goes for internal and external grants. For example, at my postdoc institution, available funds went to graduate students and faculty, not postdocs. (I have heard that this is changing, which is great for the new class.) In health psychology, many organizations that offer small grants for which students are eligible, not postdocs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">What are your remaining options? Again, without a longer-term commitment from your institution, you won't be eligible for many internal or government grants. The <a href="http://grants.nih.gov/training/careerdevelopmentawards.htm" target="_blank">NIH K-series</a>* is one exception (see Part 2). Aside from the K, I took advantage of every possible opportunity for funding on postdoc; most required that I be listed as a co-investigator, as I was not eligible to be the PI, though the project would have been mine. I also applied for ECR grants and fellowships through professional organizations. No luck for me, but I do recommend this route. It can't hurt to try, and your vita will show that you're knowledgeable about the process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Your other option is collaboration. On postdoc, I was fortunate to be able to collect some pilot data by adding components to existing or new studies that were initiated by my mentors. And, as noted, I ran a pilot with no funding, using devices leftover from a previous study. This worked for me, but it's not the same as having control over study design and fund allocation. For behavioral scientists, sometimes partnering with those in basic science or computer programming will make your applications or final products look stronger to those evaluating them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whatever you do, think beyond your first study. If funds are limited, your devices or program will need to last you a while. Can you design a second study, perhaps even in a topic area that isn't quite digital health, so that will benefit from the money you spent on project one? For example, a</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">fter my upcoming pilot intervention study, my devices will be used as assessment tools in a larger longitudinal project. It was a huge relief to realize that the devices could work for a distinct purpose and interest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>The bottom line</u>.</b> If you're a graduate student or postdoc with interests in digital health, think strategically. Use whatever funding you have or startup you get to purchase materials that will serve <b><span style="color: #990000;">multiple purposes</span></b>. Same goes for any early-career faculty member thinking of getting into the area. Apply for grants as early as possible, and use the money to build toward bigger and better projects. Collaborate. And try to keep up with the newest developments; unfortunately, your ideas and technology will be obsolete in a few months. More on this next time.</span><br />
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Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-34546678588084428772014-12-15T10:31:00.000-05:002014-12-15T10:33:02.480-05:00First-Year Faculty: Survival Skills<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>Evaluating advice</u>. </b>As a new faculty member, I've had a lot of people offer their advice on how to be successful. (I've also sought a lot of advice, as noted.) Much of what I've absorbed as been spot on and immensely helpful. Though I have raised my eyebrows in surprise and skepticism more than once, which also has been useful. As we come to the end of the first semester, here are my tips for surviving the first year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(1) <u>Read, read, read</u>. You're not alone. Thousands have made this transition before, and hundreds have shared their advice in books and blogs. Make a habit of searching for their tips; download Kindle books, search Google and Twitter, follow links from blog to blog. No matter how busy you are in the few months before you start, you can set aside a few minutes per day to prepare yourself. My list included:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor</i> - Cahn & Stimpson</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>The Academic Self: An Owner's Manual</i> - Hall (particularly good for promoting self-awareness and reducing egotism)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>What They Didn't Teach You in Graduate School</i> - Gray & Drew</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brown.edu/about/administration/sheridan-center/consultations/academic-job-market-resources/first-year-faculty" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Preparing for Your First Year as a Faculty Member</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> - compiled by Brown University</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://getalifephd.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Get a Life, Phd</a> (blog) - Tanya Golash-Boza</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><u>Trust your training</u>. Much of what you'll read warns that an academic job is unlike training. It's true that you haven't done this job before, and that neither grad school nor postdoc fellowship prepared you for exactly the challenges you'll encounter in your first semester (e.g., politics, managing your own time, managing TAs, preparing lectures, choosing service "opportunities"). But if you made it through graduate and postdoc training successfully, then you know how to juggle classwork, academic writing, meetings, requests from supervisors, and student assistants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The difference is that no one tells you which of these to work on at any given time. This may require some adjustment, and might seem overwhelming at first. Rely on the techniques that got you through training - lists, designated work time, working (or not) from home, or whatever helped you be successful to this point. Those can keep working for you if you adapt them to your new situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(3) <u>Work on long-term mind</u>. You kept your eyes on the prize (an academic job) for years, and it helped get you through some tough moments. Well, it starts all over again, with the new prize of tenure several years away. As frustrating as this can be, you know how to do it. And what's different is that now you can work on the projects that are most meaningful to you. Write the papers that matter to you; choose your assistants based on your own values and goals. Chip away a little bit at a time and mix in some relaxation. R</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">emember that you don't have to do everything at once. You have a few years to make your tenure case, so plan thoughtfully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(4) <u>Pick your battles, but stand up for yourself</u>. As the new kid, well-intentioned colleagues will offer you their insights, and only some of these pearls of wisdom will be solicited. Some of it will inspire gratitude, and some of it will make your blood boil - particularly if it comes across as unnecessarily condescending. No matter what the culture of your institution or d</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">epartment, they hired YOU, and they hired you to be a colleague. As long as you're being reasonable, don't let seniority equal disrespect. When necessary, make your expectations known, and provide warm but firm feedback. (Because not everyone is willing to do this, unacceptable behaviors persist. Often, people are grateful when someone finally says something.) <i>*If you don't preserve your self-respect, you may find yourself bitter and resentful right quick.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course, not every technique is optimal for everyone, so I refer back to #2 - do what works! Though do adapt it to your new environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had a fantastic first semester, which included manuscript submissions/acceptances and earning a teaching grant to purchase materials for a new course. It can be done.</span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-9989341001761832282014-11-26T13:11:00.000-05:002014-11-26T13:11:02.063-05:00#AcWriMo - Academic Writing Month (Part 3)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><u>Ambivalence</u>. </b>As #AcWriMo2014 winds down, I have mixed impressions of my success. I produced what I set out to (and then some), which is gratifying during such a busy time of year. As planned, I:</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Completed and submitted a teaching enhancement grant application</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Completed <span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">and submitted my </span>first year self-report</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finished and submitted two in-progress papers (including my first solo-authored!)</span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Make significant progress on a (major) revise and resubmit invitation for my dissertation manuscript</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also submitted four conference abstracts (three with student co-authors), attended the <a href="http://www.abct.org/conv2014/" target="_blank">Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies</a> conference to present two posters (one an <a href="http://obesityandeatingdisorderssig.org/" target="_blank">Obesity & Eating Disorders SIG</a> citation selection), and received word that my submission to the <a href="http://www.sbm.org/meetings/2015" target="_blank">Society of Behavioral Medicine</a> annual meeting was accepted as a paper presentation. All of this is fantastic, and I'm delighted to share the success with students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Up next, I'll find out whether my department votes to keep me (i.e., the result of my first year report) on Tuesday, December 2nd; I'll hear about the teaching grant sometime before the end of the semester (December 16th). Manuscript submissions? As always, it's anyone's guess. (Though very nice to have them on someone else's plate, so they can linger for a while without complaint from me.) I hope to send the R&R off to co-authors for feedback in the next few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><u>So why the ambivalence, if I met my goals</u>? </b>The goal that I didn't meet had much less to to with outcome than with process: I committed to writing for one hour per day (or two half hours), and <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2014/11/acwrimo-academic-writing-month-part-2.html" target="_blank">as noted</a>, I did not meet this goal 2-3 days per week. Even after recommitting to blocking out time, the MWF teaching/office hours/seminar schedule got the best of me. I did meet my goal on two of four Mondays and one of four Wednesdays and Fridays, which is decent considering everything else going on. But every blog, book, and tweet about being a productive writer, from productive writers, recommends a daily writing habit, and there is something alluring about such consistency. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAzjB_8sDJGL1if-unh4qYHiULRxcRsJ36aa5XNi-FO5XJegzbldXMOkD1-nyMPo21nTOu9pp9x_s8r3UJTxSOKcPDGuM7XmxKhsNBoydkNIZBweOeLqIvDjMYDYoWASu7-jZkCsKP3o/s1600/298x232_relaxation_sleep_ST.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAzjB_8sDJGL1if-unh4qYHiULRxcRsJ36aa5XNi-FO5XJegzbldXMOkD1-nyMPo21nTOu9pp9x_s8r3UJTxSOKcPDGuM7XmxKhsNBoydkNIZBweOeLqIvDjMYDYoWASu7-jZkCsKP3o/s1600/298x232_relaxation_sleep_ST.jpg" height="155" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps what #AcWriMo has taught me is that I don't <b><i>need</i></b> daily writing to be "productive" at my desired level. I can continue to strive for this goal or knuckle down when I need to finish something, but beating myself up isn't necessary. Maybe relief, or disbelief, is manifesting as ambivalence? Either way, maybe it's time to lighten up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><u>Credit where it is due</u>. </b>I'm immensely grateful to Charlotte Frost at <a href="http://www.phd2published.com/" target="_blank">PhD2Published</a>, who started the initiative, and to the hundreds of academics who posted tweets of progress and support. Especially @ATRWibben, @JosephsonJyl, and @iladylayla (aka the Global #AcWri Team) for their company and encouragement during writing episodes. Being part of the community has made the frenzy of #AcWriMo enjoyable. Sign me up for next year!</span>Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7245567559953818404.post-40375295727007042152014-11-15T08:01:00.000-05:002014-11-15T08:04:37.875-05:00#AcWriMo - Academic Writing Month (Part 2)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">November</u><b>. </b>The first semester has hummed along at a steady clip for two months. I've had time to get to know colleagues, write and submit, run, and even relax a little. It seemed that I might achieve <a href="http://thisislife101.blogspot.com/2014/08/life-really.html" target="_blank">work-life balance</a> after many years without it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then, BAM - November! This is me on 11/14:</span><br />
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Now I know why November is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AcWRiMo?src=hash">#AcWRiMo</a> - so easy to get caught up in other tasks! Tomorrow = reflection on the first two weeks, and planning.<br />
— Dr. Danielle Arigo (@DaniArigo) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaniArigo/status/533245765754568704">November 14, 2014</a></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><u>Let's review</u>.</b> I knew that it would be a busy month. I had decided to apply for a teaching grant (due 11/3) to buy materials for a new course. I'm traveling for a conference the weekend before Thanksgiving, and then again for the holiday, plus I agreed to do a guest lecture on eating disorders in a sports psychology course. And that first year self-report, due the 24th, which needs to be drafted early enough that generous colleagues can provide feedback. So I needed to get ahead of the game. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My #AcWriMo goals included a mix of necessary tasks and additional objectives, which I thought were reasonable:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Complete teaching enhancement grant</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Complete first year self-report</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finish and submit two in-progress papers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Revise and resubmit dissertation manuscript</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It started with the teaching grant application. Syllabus for a new course I've never taught, timeline</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, budget, proposal, and letter of support (which I wrote myself). Despite my head start, there was a bit of cramming the night before to make the pieces cohere. Fortunately, the eating disorders lecture occurred in the same week span as the same topic in my own courses, so there was only a bit of extra work there. Though I learned that four straight hours of teaching with no break = fatigue and the <a href="https://www.fitbit.com/flex" target="_blank">10,000-step buzz from my FitBit</a> by 1:00 pm. Conference poster is nearly done, I've made steady progress on the revision and first year report. And I submitted one of those in-progress manuscripts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><u>So where am I</u>? </b>The concrete achievements sound pretty good, except that the workload is catching up to me. I set a goal of writing for at least one hour every day, as I would really like to get into a daily writing habit. The first week went well; I skipped one day, but exceeded the total for the week. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I realized that finishing the revisions for an invited resubmission is NOT reasonable, considering the work involved. So I edited that one to "address revise and resubmit invitation," which I can make progress on for the next few weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But this week, I skipped three days of writing - my teaching days, which are exceptionally busy, and require either early mornings or late evenings to squeeze in writing. One hour isn't that much, so I could have done this. Though I realized that I really, really enjoy having nights off during the week. Right now, I don't think I'm willing to spend two or three nights per week working. I've done it for years and I'm tired. I could feel guilty about this, but I think it's reasonable. I think about Tanya Golash-Boza's commitment to a 40-hour week and wonder if it's possible to achieve it as a junior faculty member. So I have to think of another way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some options include:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Spending less time on Twitter</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Breaking the hour into 20-minute blocks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Closing the door after office hours, no matter who wants what</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Accepting that MWF are not writing days</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't like the first or the last; I get a lot from the academic support and suggestion network on Twitter, and I learn about valuable research in my area. And I'm not a quitter. So this week, despite travel, I will <b><span style="color: purple;">schedule time to write each day and commit to sticking with it</span></b>. Wish me luck.</span></div>
<br />Tori Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579156301419787834noreply@blogger.com1