Worm friends: The C. elegans Community Mentor Match Program is signing up mentees!
Click on the link to be matched with a mentor and/or to join a peer-mentoring group.
Please spread the word, and share with your lab members and worm friends! 📢
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Click on the link to be matched with a mentor and/or to join a peer-mentoring group.
Please spread the word, and share with your lab members and worm friends! 📢
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Comments
We have mentors from Europe, Asia, Canada, Latin America, Africa, Israel, and the US.
This is an amazing turnout, but not a surprise. We historically had more sign ups for mentors than mentees.
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They can also join peer-mentoring groups of ~5 people at the same career stage: grad students, post docs, early faculty, and mid career.
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job applications, career advice, grant writing, starting a new lab, manuscript prep, teaching strategies, lab management, time management, and other professional challenges.
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To sign up more mentees, we made a slide with links and QR codes.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mkm6e0UREQtEKIlyM25uj12DZfaFyvLmW3DK91dH1_s
Please share this slide with your lab in your next lab meeting!
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And we'd love to hear your ideas on how to grow the program worldwide.
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