<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Folx!</div><div><br></div><div>Let's start lab meetings next week. I'll start, and let's kick off the semester with a discussion of the attached professional advice document I've been tinkering with the past few years. My students have seen several iterations, but here's the latest, complete version. Have a read and bring any questions or thoughts for discussion, and I'd just generally love to get any feedback you have on it. Should be a good tool to start us off on a new academic year.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, please sign up to facilitate lab meetings:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F7O_c9Zj3LtOM9tONLyQNloh5XBfyYPX0Su3eu9DoaI/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F7O_c9Zj3LtOM9tONLyQNloh5XBfyYPX0Su3eu9DoaI/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div>I have started the schedule by suggesting the first dates for my grad. students, but this is all a suggestion. If you sign up for a date, you will be leading the discussion, either presenting some of your work for feedback, leading an exercise or mini-workshop of your choosing, or leading a discussion of a paper or article you find interesting. Or any other ideas!<br></div><div><br></div><div>I invite all students whose committees I'm a member on, and anyone else who is interested. If you'd like to be taken off this listserve for the semester please let me know. If I'm a member on your committee, there's no pressure to attend my lab meetings, just bop in and out as you like, and do feel encouraged to use us as a group to get feedback from, so please sign up to facilitate! (We strive to have a very friendly, safe atmosphere for feedback.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope you're having a good start to the AY!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Jay<br></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jason (Jay) Sexton</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(he/him/his)<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Associate Professor</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Chair, UCM Senate Committee on Research</span></font></span></font></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Department of Life and Environmental Sciences<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">University of California, Merced<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">231 Science and Engineering Building 1<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jsexton2@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">jsexton2@ucmerced.edu</a><br><a href="http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/" target="_blank">http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/</a><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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