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Rachel Coulthard-Graf

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Fellows' Skills and Career Development Lead @embl Posts about scientific careers, skills for researchers and research culture. Views my own

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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Join us for the next EMBL Skills & Careers Webinar! Sally Hall will share practical tips on engaging public audiences in: "Sharing your science with the public: the why, how, and what of public engagement." 🗓️ 29 June 2026 | 11:00-12:00 CEST 👉 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars - sharing your science with the public: the why, how, and what of public engagement. 29th June - 11:00-12:00 CEST. Speaker: Sally Hall, Public Engagement Officer, EMBL with Q&A. The webinar details are in a white box, with the EMBL logo, dispayed over a blue/green background with a head icon and different coloured arrows symbolizing the different directions the skills & knowledge acquired as a scientist can take you.
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Researchers often work side by side, but not always together. In our next @embl.org Skills & Careers webinar @pivg.bsky.social will discuss the skill of building meaningful research communities. 🗓️ 30 April 2026 | 11:00–12:00 CEST 👉 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Details of the webinar -  "Illuminating the dark forest: how to bring your community together", Piv Gopalasingam, EMBL-EBI scientific training officer and EMBL Staff Association co-Chair, EMBL-EBI UK, 30th April 11:00-12:00. The details are in a white box over an illustration showing a head with multicoloured arrows coming out, representing different paths and skills of a researcher.
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Webinar Today! Negotiating Your First Group Leader Position Join us today to hear from three group leaders — including a co-author of a BMC Proceedings article on this topic — about their experiences and practical tips for negotiating your first group leader role. 👉 www.embl.org/about/info/e...
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Our first @embl.org Skills and Careers Webinars of 2026 kick off in March. 🗓 4 March: Negotiating your first group leader position, with three speakers sharing their experience. 🗓 27 March: Careers in core facilities & scientific services. Find out more & register: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New on the @embl.org Fellows’ Career Service site: a section with resources on key skills. Developed by Sabrina Krueger, as part of our complementary skills programme, these materials add to our existing resources for career options, planning, and job applications. www.embl.org/about/info/e...
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thinking about moving from academia into IT and software? Join our @embl.org & @biont-training.bsky.social Career Webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET, with speakers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): 💡 Toni Wagner – vAudience (DE) 💡 Helena Vela – Do IT Now (ES) www.embl.org/about/info/e...
The image includes the details of the webinar: EMBL | BioNT Career Webinars- Career Paths in Software/IT SMEs | 28 November from 11:00-12:00 (CET) 
The webinar details are in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual showing a head with multicoloured arrows going out from it, illustrating that your skills and knowledge can lead to different careers.
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Our @embl.org Skills & Career Webinars are restarting for autumn/winter 2025 - first up on 22 Oct: Jacobo Miranda on ‘Project Management with AI: Blending Human Insights and Machine Support.’ More details & registration link at www.embl.org/about/info/e...
The image includes the details of the webinar: EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars - ‘Project Management with AI: Blending Human Insights and Machine Support.’ Tune in on 22 October at 11:00 - 12:00 CEST 
Jacobo Miranda, Bioinformatics training officer at the data science center, EMBL. 
The webinar details are in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual showing a head with multicoloured arrows going out from it, illustrating that your skills and knowledge can lead to different careers.
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
An overlooked aspect of becoming a scientist is realizing that you have a particular brand; a unique approach, an attraction to a certain kind of problem and a set of connections that you like to make. Uri calls it finding your internal tuning fork. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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17 | Uri Alon and our internal tuning fork
Podcast Episode · Night Science · 05/31/2022 · 40m
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Chris Smith @drchristsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Are you a #postdoc looking for a supportive community of peers to help you navigate the postdoctoral experience and next stage in your career? Considering joining @futurepislack.bsky.social or checking out the resources linked on their website! futurepislack.wordpress.com
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Future PI Slack
A peer support group for postdocs on academic track
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 17/07/2025
Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026? #EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Since I'm blathering about (my own) scientific writing this morning, I'm reminded to remind you that I made a starter pack of folks who post about the history, practice, and craft of scientific writing: go.bsky.app/TwZVnjU You can get some good advice from folks on this list!
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Looking for practical tips for making your science accessible & engaging to diverse audiences? Join our next @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar with guest speaker @shreyaghosh.bsky.social, Communications Editor at EMBL. Register now to join us on 16 July: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The image includes the details of the webinar: EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars - Communicating Complexity: How to Explain Complex Ideas in Simple Words | 16 July from 11:00-12:00 (CEST) | 
Shreya Ghosh, Communications Editor, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
The webinar details are in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual showing a head with multicoloured arrows going out from it, illustrating that your skills and knowledge can lead to different careers.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
More new contributions to fellowships and research job applications! @minyaaa.bsky.social @morgancarterphd.bsky.social @benrlee.com and more github.com/RILAB/statem...
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GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants
Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Planning an academic career and want to boost your interview skills? Join the @embl.org Skills & Careers Webinar: Interview Skills: Hiring and Being Hired in Academia 🗓️ 16 June | 11:00–12:00 CEST Three academic group leaders will share their practical insights. 👉 www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Details of the webinar: Interview skills: hiring and being hired in academia. 16 June 2025 | 11:00-12:00 CEST Speakers • Ana Boskovic, EMBL, Italy
• André Nadler, MPI-CBG, Dresden
• Rafael Galupa, CBI, France



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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Great news for early career researchers with longer postdoc projects: from 2027 the ERC Starting Grant eligibility criteria will be extended to 10-years PhD defense. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Changes to the 2026 and 2027 Work Programmes
With the launch of the competitions for grants under ERC Work Programme 2026 in July of this year, several changes to the submission of applications and the evaluation of proposals will apply. The mai...
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EMBL @embl.org · 19/05/2025
Interested in research infrastructures career? The #ARISE2 Fellowship Programme might be right for you. MSCA funded, the programme supports STEM researchers in becoming leaders in research infrastructures, driving innovation in life sciences 🧪 🗓️ Call opening: 30 June www.embl.org/training/ari...
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Joel Selkrig @jselkrig.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📣 Conference Announcement! Till Strowig, @lisamaierlab.bsky.social and I have organized a stellar lineup of speakers from different corners of the Microbiome field for the 17th SeeOn Conference in picturesque Bavaria. Open to all! Abstracts due April 6th. Spread the news! www.dghm.org/seeon/
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Seeon - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie
Microbiota, Probiotics and Host    → Flyer 17th Seeon Conference Registration (click here for registration) The steering committee of the “Microbiota, Probiotics and Host”- group warmly invites you t...
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
👇TODAY 11:00 Central European Time (in 2 hours). Learn about a great career option for those who enjoy discussing science with a wide range of researchers but no longer wish to work at the bench. embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Details of the webinar (Strategic alliances and industry partnerships | 21 February from 11:00-12:00 (CET) 
Marzia Sidri, Strategy, Operations and Alliances Manager at Cellzome, Germany
Vassilis Georgiadis, Director of Industry Partnerships at King’s College London, UK)
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Interested in careers at the academia-industry interface? Join our @embl.org careers webinar this Friday at 11:00 CET to explore roles that let you: ✅ Build cross-sector collaborations ✅ Shape research strategy ✅ Connect science & business Free & open to all
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EMBL Fellows' Career Service – Career guidance for early career researchers in the life sciences and related fields
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🚀 Exploring career paths in and beyond academia? Since 2020, @embl.org Careers Webinars have hosted 69 speakers from 19 countries and 4600+ attendees. Next up: Strategic Alliances & Industry Partnerships 📅 21 Feb, 11:00 CET Learn more & register: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Details of the webinar (Strategic alliances and industry partnerships | 21 February from 11:00-12:00 (CET) 
Marzia Sidri, Strategy, Operations and Alliances Manager at Cellzome, Germany
Vassilis Georgiadis, Director of Industry Partnerships at King’s College London, UK)
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Chris Smith @drchristsmith.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For the past 3 fall semesters (2022-2024) I have led a series for Virginia Tech (and recently UNC) graduate students on pursuing a postdoc proactively. I distilled some takeaways from those sessions in this recent piece @insidehighered.com: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
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How to prepare proactively for a postdoc (opinion)
These are some actions a Ph.D. student can take to pave the way for a positive postdoc experience, Chris Smith writes.
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Total Internal Reflection🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @tirscienceblog.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New posting! I was recently part of an @embl.org #Careers webinar to discuss #MedComms, & why this might be the best career option for scientists who enjoy the writing/communicating/organising aspects of the job the most 🤩 Extended transcript of the Q&A session below.👇 wp.me/p76cuy-QQ
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The magic of MedComms: an EMBL Careers Webinar
Medical Communications (MedComms) might just be the best industry career option out there for scientists who most enjoy the writing/communicating/organising parts of the job, and on 22nd November 2…
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Three tenure track positions at Stockholm: "... focus should be on patterns and processes that previously have been difficult to study, but now are possible due to recent advances in areas such as sequencing, AI, imaging, mass spectrometry, tomography and exposomics."
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Calling group leaders in the life sciences! We're collecting examples of successful job application materials for a career workshop for postdocs applying to academic roles. Interested in sharing your materials? Drop us a line at fellows_careers@embl.org & we'll send you further info.
Picture of someone typing at a laptop with the text "Help postdocs apply for academic roles!"
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Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Curious about industry R&D? Maria Fälth Savitski, Head of Computational Biology Boehringer Ingelheim, shared her career journey, insights into collaborative research in industry, and tips for early-career researchers with the @embl.org Careers Blog: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A renewed reminder to anyone applying for a PhD or postdoc position in a lab--indicate your interest in the email/cover letter by talking a bit about that lab's work and why it would be a good fit. I answer any query that includes this information but do not answer those that do not.
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Applications open for a new cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social *Pathway to Independence* fellows Know a #devbio post-doc about to enter the academic job market? Would they benefit from a little support & mentoring? Spread the word Deadline 31 Jan 2025 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI programme | Development | The Company of Biologists Development's Pathway to Independence programme Development is excited to announce our call for our Pathway to Independence program...
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"I made a conscious choice to switch from dancing to research and I don’t regret it at all" In this interview, Maria Rostovskaya shares her story from being a dancer to a senior scientist @babrahaminst.bsky.social, working on human #DevBio: thenode.biologists.com/i-made-a-con...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Which one are you? Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics. –Peter Medawar
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Jamie Hackett @jamiehackett.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Many other super lab members not (yet) on Bluesky! So finally, two postdocs that just moved on... @denbobalab.bsky.social has established his group at MPI on #microbiome-germline axis. @mdura.bsky.social has just preprinted on #intergenerational-inheritance and is on the market! Check them out!
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Attention! #devbiolwriteclub Bluesky Boot Camp starts December 2! I’ll be posting here daily to help working scientists develop their writing craft. And I’ll suffer alongside you while I try to finish my book proposal AND get two manuscripts out the door by year’s end. Who’s gonna join me?
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Ooooh new @lonelypipette.bsky.social just dropped with the one and only Ana Boskovic (who's not on Bluesky?!?!) Guaranteed to be a good listen! www.buzzsprout.com/1356877/epis...
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TLP #34 : The "right" To-Do list - Ana Boskovic - The Lonely Pipette : helping scientists do better science
This month we talk with Ana Boskovic about her experience of setting up her own lab and hiring a new teamAna began studying languages and literature… but found it too easy, so she switchedShe question...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The goal is not to have a zero risk project; those are generally not worth working on. People with a good relationship with risk are definitely not avoiding it. They are super honest about it and they basically make it their goal to slowly chip away at it. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...
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66 | Michael Fischbach and the scientific decision tree - Night Science
In this episode, Stanford professor Michael Fischbach discusses insights from his course on how to choose meaningful research problems. Highlights include:- Invest time in problem selection: Spend mor...
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EMBL @embl.org · 25/11/2024
Are you looking for career-planning resources? EMBL Fellows’ Career Service has launched online resources for early-career researchers, providing #careers guidance to life scientists. 🧪💡https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/new-online-career-planning-resources-for-life-science-researchers/
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