How to Find Enjoyable and Generous Relationships with Senior Faculty when You are Just Starting Out - Episode 18

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Dr. Beth Calhoun joined the show to discuss when and how to navigate out of bad relationships with senior faculty. How to avoid the confidence traps she sees young faculty fall into. How to be flexible and not set in stone what your biosketch will look like in the future. How team science helped her early in her career and still helps her to this day. She also shares the advice she would have for her early career-self.

[6:00] Finding the right mentors. When and how to navigate out of bad collaborations
[12:30] Developing confidence, don't work to perfection due to a lack of it.
[15:45] Not getting stuck on the original conception of your career. Don't pre-write your biosketch.
[19:30] Beth talks about how team science made a big difference in her early career.
[25:00] How her community credits young faculty that make important contributions to research teams.
[27:00] Light speed round.