If I could give myself one piece of advice for starting a new job/new place it would be: Ask more questions. Follow people around and just ask them about everything. I have a tendency to nod along in case I'm "supposed to know". No. Be openly clueless. Be a toddler. You'll save so much time & money. - ThreadSky

cellmorphosero.bsky.social • 37 days ago

If I could give myself one piece of advice for starting a new job/new place it would be: Ask more questions. Follow people around and just ask them about everything. I have a tendency to nod along in case I'm "supposed to know".
No. Be openly clueless. Be a toddler. You'll save so much time & money.

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cellmorphosero.bsky.social•37 days ago

Obviously, this is a lot easier to do if you're not fighting against impostor syndrome and lifetime of maladaptive coping strategies to hide your dopamine deficiency.

(I've deleted this skeet 3 times because the internalised stigma of what I now know is just garden variety ADHD is still huuuuge.)

cellmorphosero.bsky.social•37 days ago

If only there were some sort of, like, programs where we could learn more about how to support ourselves, colleagues, and students with of hidden disabilities ... something, I don't know, that includes people with differences to help equalise opportunities ...

w-noah-brett.bsky.social•37 days ago

Also, as a “sufferer” of ADHD (I use quotations because I think it confers more benefits to a scientific mind than people realize), I wonder if it would be positive to have a BlueSky community where people could discuss strategies to deal with the negative aspects of the “disorder”

w-noah-brett.bsky.social•37 days ago

Love the thread! In my lowly opinion, there is nothing more deserving of respect in a scientist than honesty about they don’t know. Doubly, there is nothing about a scientist more deserving of scorn than a inability to admit what they don’t know.

kodakandlag.bsky.social•37 days ago

this is literally some advice I gave for scientists in @boehninglab.bsky.social

elencaldecott.bsky.social•37 days ago

I am that person. I will not let an acronym stand without being the person to stick my hand up, mid-presentation, to ask, 'What does that mean? Who are they?'
It may be annoying, but at least I'm only baffled by the decisions made, not by our org structure.

cellmorphosero.bsky.social•37 days ago

Be more Elen! A good general strategy for life.

elencaldecott.bsky.social•37 days ago

🤣 Not if you saw the state of my desk (I didn't even have a desk, I keep everything I'm currently using on a set of step ladders!).

malcolmsleath.bsky.social•37 days ago

As a consultant I have lost count of the number of times I have said to a client, "This might be a stupid question, but..."

And then had them tell me explicitly that it wasn't a stupid question at all.

We must not infantilise ourselves in the face of 'people who know'.

astormic.bsky.social•36 days ago

I’d love to do that but don’t know how to not be annoying asking many questions!

cellmorphosero.bsky.social•36 days ago

Bringing people snacks to say thank you is usually a good idea. ;)
I make an annual offering of cookies to the critical people in my department (that is, Purchasing, Estates, Safety, Front Office ...)

jim4747.bsky.social•37 days ago

💯

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