Advice on advice
Recently I was at a conference for graduate students that featured a panel on collaboration. This was super cool - I really like the idea of having some professional development panels at a conference, especially ones that I haven't seen at conferences in the past. There was a lot to take in, but I think there was some really good advice on collaboration. I had some tangential thoughts from the panel experience I wanted to share. Warning: I don't think what's written below may be that helpful or even cohesive, but I'm still going to post it in case it's useful for sparking some conversation. I asked a graduate student after the collaboration panel what they thought about it. This student explained to me that they just started research recently - collaboration was not on their mind at all. Why am I pointing it out? Often, we feel we need to be put on high alert for all things: make sure to seek out any possible ...