After Academia

In this episode, Dr. Ashley Ruba, PhD, founder of After Academia, shares her journey from a successful career in academia to roles in UX research at companies like Meta and Arthrex. Despite her academic accomplishments, including publishing multiple papers and winning prestigious awards, she realized the traditional academic path wasn’t aligned with her expectations. Dr. Ashley Ruba, PhD opens up about the emotional and professional challenges she faced while leaving academia, including redefining her identity outside of the academic world. She emphasizes the importance of networking, exploring options beyond academia, and perseverance in the face of adversity. To support others through similar challenges, she founded AfterAcademia, where she helps academics break free from the constraints of academia and build fulfilling careers. Tune in to hear her story and learn how to make bold career moves and find fulfillment beyond academia. #gradschool #phd

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Join our team! 🔍 NCSES is seeking a Science Analyst (Interdisciplinary), who will play a key role in producing rigorous policy-relevant analytic products to inform decision-making that shapes the science and engineering ecosystem in the United States. Key Responsibilities: -Serve as a senior expert to NCSES leadership and other senior officials -Create new approaches to respond to emerging data needs -Develop models, forecasts, and visualizations to identify key indicators -Perform reproducible, robust data analytics and conduct statistical analysis, modeling, and simulation -Lead multi-year data projects with national impact -Prepare and present findings to NSF leadership and other stakeholders -Represent NCSES at professional meetings, conferences, and visits Applications will be accepted through January 17, 2025. Apply HERE: https://bit.ly/4gg1gtM    

📢 Do you want to design, run & analyse trials on the world’s first and most used behavioural online experiments platform?! Then this opportunity could be for you! 💼 BIT are hiring an Associate Research Advisor to work on our Predictiv platform. Details in comments below. Apply by 13th January 2025! ✉️ Any questions? Drop Abigail Mottershaw a message.

Public Profit just opened applications for their summer 2025 internship program. I interned last summer and highly recommend the team and position! ✨

If anyone in my network is interested in transitioning from the lab to a life science marketing role, they should check out this position at XenoSTART. Great team and great science! What more could you want? Feel free to DM me for a direct intro!

Lacey Rosedale and I are hiring a Ph.D. intern to spend 12 weeks conducting qualitative research on organizational adoption of Copilot. It's a fantastic opportunity bridging Microsoft Research and product groups. Plus it's located in our beautiful and vibrant lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://lnkd.in/gAzh3c64