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August 9, 2025

Moving from biotech to academia

Moving from biotech to academiaI recently wrote a piece about leaving academia for biotech.I left academia for industry in 2019. I spent four years at a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.signaturescience.com/">consulting firm</a> before joining <a target="_blank" href="https://colossal.com/">Colossal Biosciences</a>. This week I’m returning to the <a target="_blank" href="https://datascience.virginia.edu/">University of Virginia School of Data Science</a> as a tenured associate professor and dean of research.The transition from academia to industry can be tricky, but it’s also increasingly common. There are far fewer academic jobs available than there are trainees coming out of grad school and postdoc positions.What’s talked about less (because it happens less!) is the return trip. And it’s harder. Much harder.Why? Academia is a prestige economy built around publications, teaching, funding, and visibility. Industry, even at companies doing lots of R&D, operates under a different currency: deliverables, velocity, product, and revenue, with a stronger focus on protecting IP than spreading knowledge. Spend long enough away, and the things that matter in academia begin to atrophy, at least in how they appear on paper.So if you're in industry and even thinking about going back, here are some practical things to focus on now, not later.Publish. No seriously, publish.Publications are the coin of the realm in academia. If you’re not authoring papers, even as middle author, you’re invisible to many academic search committees. Make publication a priority, even if your industry work is proprietary or siloed. Can you spin off a methods paper? Collaborate with a former colleague? Co-author a review? Find a way. If nothing else, consider publishing some of your open-source work as an independent scientist to a preprint server like bioRxiv or arXiv. I did this with a little side project, and I have a few more in mind once I can find the time.Depending on the size of your company you may be able to convince leadership that publication is good for the company. I worked at a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.signaturescience.com/">multidisciplinary scientific services and technical consulting firm</a> for several years after I left academia before joining a biotech startup. No one was coming to my company to buy software like <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/signaturescience/rplanes">rplanes</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/signaturescience/pracpac">pracpac</a>. They were coming to my company to buy expertise and time from the people who can build things like rplanes and pracpac, and we could point them to the <a target="_blank" href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0320442">papers</a> we published to prove our bona fides. Publications served as a flag in the ground, proven past performance we could cite for new consulting services contract proposals.Keep your academic CV up to dateI kept my industry at two pages max, highlighting practical skills and accomplishments over a long list of papers. My academic CV is about 40 pages long. Update your CV regularly. And not just the publications. Make sure you add any abstracts, posters, invited talks, teaching, mentoring, grant writing (even internal grants). List these as you would if you never left. Even if you’ve been managing roadmaps and timelines for years, hiring committees still want to see whether you've kept one foot in the scholarly world. It’s hard to do this years later if you haven’t kept your academic CV updated as you go along, so if returning to academia is even a remote possibility for you, update it regularly.Teach, guest lecture, or mentorFind a way to stay active in education. Adjunct a class, give guest lectures, volunteer to teach a short course or workshop at your local <a target="_blank" href="https://cvillerusers.github.io/">R User Group</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.meetup.com/charlottesvilledatascience/">PyData meetup</a>. If teaching is part of the academic role you want, you need receipts. Mentoring interns or postdocs in industry can sometimes count, especially if you can point to outcomes.If you teach a workshop, put your workshop material online (<a target="_blank" href="https://stephenturner.github.io/workshops/">here’s an example of mine</a>). If you teach more than a few workshops and you have your materials written with Quarto, it’s easy to turn this into a book and it takes all of 10 minutes to self-publish on <a target="_blank" href="https://amzn.to/4lubY1U">Amazon</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://leanpub.com/bdsr">Leanpub</a>.Write a blog or newsletterIf you’ve been out of academia for a while, a blog or newsletter can do double duty: it’s a portfolio of ideas and a public demonstration that you’re still reading, thinking, and engaging. It doesn’t have to be technical — some of the best academic writing is reflection. Just be present.Along similar lines, maintain your public-facing profile. Keep your GitHub active, your personal website updated, and your LinkedIn, ORCID, and Google Scholar profiles accurate.Collaborate with academicsOne of the best ways to maintain credibility is to stay close to the source. Collaborate with researchers at universities. Serve on thesis committees. Co-author grant applications. Even SBIRs can count here. In my previous industry/consulting role I was able to partner with James Madison University and Elder Research to get <a target="_blank" href="https://www.highergov.com/grant/NA22OAR0210493/">SBIR funding for environmental monitoring for harmful algal blooms</a>, and we <a target="_blank" href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.12.483776v1">published a preprint</a> on some of the phase 1 work. While here at Colossal I got to collaborate with researchers at the University of East Anglia, the Globe institute at the University of Copenhagen, the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, the government of Mauritius, and the University of Kent. These kind of academic collaborations count for a lot if you can make them happen.Really go out of your way to try to make this happen, even if it’s not a part of your day job. These connections often open doors back into academia and they lend credibility when you make your case to search committees.Stay current with the literatureReading papers for fun might seem like a luxury you don’t have time for in industry, but if you’re planning to go back to academia, you need to keep current. Read. Annotate. Build a bibliography of stuff you’d cite if you wrote a paper tomorrow (I use Zotero).Maybe even <a target="_blank" href="https://blog.stephenturner.us/t/papers">write about what you’re reading.</a>Understand what you’re giving upGoing back to academia almost certainly means a pay cut. If you’re leaving a startup, you’re likely walking away from equity that could potentially turn into life-changing wealth. You’ll also go from short feedback loops and funding decisions to heavier bureaucracy and long grant cycles. And as I write this in August 2025, science funding in the US is under attack from all angles. Be honest with yourself about why you want to go back. If it’s because you miss mentoring students, chasing hard problems, or writing papers with your name at the end, great. But don’t underestimate the cost.Know how your time in industry will be perceivedAcademia says it values real-world experience, but it’s often suspicious of it too. You may have run large teams and shipped major products, but if you haven’t published recently, haven’t taught, haven’t stayed visible in academic spaces, your experience may be undervalued. Don’t take it personally but do plan for it.This is changing in many places. I landed my new position at UVA SDS in no small part because of my industry and startup experience. They’re really leading the way here with this forward-looking stance on entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships. Check out a few of the links below for more.* <a target="_blank" href="https://datascience.virginia.edu/news/deans-blog-entrepreneurism-data-science-and-new-building">Phil Bourne: Entrepreneurism, Data Science and a New Building</a>* <a target="_blank" href="https://datascience.virginia.edu/news/deans-blog-moment-and-beyond">Phil Bourne: This Moment and Beyond</a>* <a target="_blank" href="https://uvadatapoints.castos.com/episodes/venture-meets-mission-a-conversation-with-arun-gupta">UVA Data Points Podcast: Venture Meets Mission: A Conversation with Arun Gupta</a>Final thoughtsComing back isn’t impossible. But it takes planning. You need to start cultivating your academic shadow long before you try to return. It means publishing when no one’s asking you to, teaching when you don’t have to, and showing up in spaces where your current job might not require you to.If you do that consistently, you’ll demonstrate that your time in industry hasn’t distanced you from the values of academia. You’ll show that you’ve kept your edge, stayed engaged, and have something valuable to offer that blends both rigor and real-world experience. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://blog.stephenturner.us?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">blog.stephenturner.us</a>

January 15, 2025

AI in data science education

Data science educator and professor Stephen Turner examines the impact of AI on education, discussing the opportunities and challenges of using Large Language Models in data science teaching and learning.

December 23, 2024

The Enlightenment Conservatory

<a target="_blank" href="https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/enlightenment-conservatory">https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/enlightenment-conservatory</a>I had good intentions to give <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Novel_Writing_Month">NaNoWriMo</a> a try this year but didn’t get very far. Instead I gave OpenAI’s <a target="_blank" href="https://chatgpt.com/g/g-lN1gKFnvL-creative-writing-coach">Creative Writing Coach GPT</a> a try for a (very) short story I had in mind, inspired by my frustration trying to access closed-access research articles for a review article I’m preparing. I found it to be an excellent writing coach with specific advice for refining the role of the curators, expanding the perspective of the cultivators, deepening the emotional stakes, clarifying the catalyst for change, polishing the resolution, adding complexity, making the revolt more dramatic, and fine-tuning the language.Image created with <a target="_blank" href="https://chatgpt.com/g/g-2fkFE8rbu-dall-e">DALL-E</a>. Voiceover with <a target="_blank" href="https://elevenlabs.io/">ElevenLabs</a>.In a world not so different from our own, there existed a fabled garden called the Enlightenment Conservatory. Here, ideas took root as seeds of thought, blooming into radiant flowers of discovery and wisdom. Each blossom held the promise of transformation - groundbreaking theories, profound insights, and untold wonders capable of reshaping the world. It was said that no other garden in existence could rival its beauty or its mystery.The Conservatory was tended by a diverse group of dedicated cultivators. These scholars came from all corners of the world, driven by an insatiable curiosity and a passion for nurturing new ideas. They spent their days and nights planting seeds of thought, carefully tending to them, and watching in awe as their conceptual flowers blossomed into vibrant displays of intellectual beauty. Each bloom was unique, representing the culmination of the cultivators' hard work, creativity, and brilliance.However, the Enlightenment Conservatory was not open to all. Surrounding it stood a tall, impenetrable wall, erected long ago by a powerful guild known as the Curators. Through a series of cunning maneuvers and ruthless acquisitions, the Curators had gained control over all the smaller intellectual gardens that once existed independently. Now, they ruled the Enlightenment Conservatory with an iron fist.The Curators enforced one unyielding rule: entry to the Conservatory came at an outrageous price. Even the cultivators - those who had poured their hearts and minds into planting and nurturing each idea - were not spared. To gaze upon their own intellectual blooms, they too had to pay the Curators' steep toll. Many could only catch fleeting glimpses of their creations from outside the towering walls, denied the chance to savor the fruits of their labor. Their brilliance was trapped behind gates they could never afford to open.The Enlightenment Conservatory was meant to be a place where people from all walks of life could come to marvel at the wonders of human thought and insight, where ideas could be shared freely and openly. But under the Curators' rule, it became a bastion of exclusivity. Only the wealthiest patrons and members of the most prestigious institutions could afford to enter and enjoy the intellectual bounty within. These privileged few would stroll through the Conservatory, plucking ideas at will, while the majority remained outside the walls, unable to access the knowledge and insights that had been so carefully cultivated.The Curators defended their dominion by calling themselves the stewards of the Enlightenment Conservatory. They claimed their strict oversight was essential to protect the garden from mediocrity, ensuring only the most refined and worthy ideas took root. Without their watchful gaze, they warned, the Conservatory would drown in a sea of weeds, its beauty choked by chaos. But the cultivators saw through the façade. They knew the Curators tended nothing; they merely harvested the fruits of others’ labor while the true blooms of genius often went unnoticed, left to wither in the shadows.They knew that the Curators did little to actually care for the Conservatory. The intellectual blooms within its walls were almost always unchanged from the moment they had been planted. The Curators did not prune, water, or tend to the flowers of thought; they simply collected fees and claimed ownership of every bloom. Worse still, they often overlooked some of the most extraordinary ideas, leaving them to wither and die, while promoting others simply because they had been paid to do so.But for all the Curators' lofty claims, the Enlightenment Conservatory began to wither. Its once-thriving ecosystem of ideas grew barren, choked by exclusion. Young cultivators from distant lands - those with the boldest, freshest seeds of thought - were turned away, unable to pay the Curators' crushing fees. Some gave up entirely, their unplanted ideas fading like dreams forgotten at dawn. Others tried to nurture their seeds in secret, but without the support of the Conservatory, their efforts bore no fruit. The world would never know the brilliance that had been lost, and the cultivators could only watch as the garden they loved fell into quiet decline.The cultivators' frustration grew into a quiet despair. They had poured their souls into planting seeds of thought, nurturing them with endless care, only to see their work imprisoned behind walls they could not afford to scale. What use was a garden of wisdom if it bloomed in the dark, unseen and unshared? They began to speak out, calling for change. They envisioned an Conservatory where all could enter freely, where the flowers of knowledge and insight could be shared by everyone, regardless of wealth or status. They dreamed of an intellectual paradise that truly reflected the diversity and richness of the world's ideas, unencumbered by the greed and control of the Curators.As the cries for change swelled, a few bold cultivators decided they could wait no longer. They slipped beyond the Conservatory's walls and began planting their seeds of thought in the wild, in open fields where anyone - rich or poor, learned or curious - could come and marvel. These free gardens burst into dazzling bloom, spilling over with ideas as vibrant and diverse as the people who tended them. The movement spread like wildfire, and as more cultivators turned away from the Conservatory, the Curators panicked. They scrambled to suppress the rebellion, but it was too late. The walls that had stood for centuries began to crack.In time, the Enlightenment Conservatory was no longer the sole sanctuary of wisdom. The walls that had once loomed so high crumbled to dust as people discovered they didn't need gates to access the beauty of knowledge. All around, new gardens flourished, each more diverse and vibrant than the last. The Conservatory itself, no longer shrouded in exclusivity, was reborn as a shared space for all. Its paths teemed with visitors, its flowers of insight blooming brighter than ever in the sunlight of collaboration and open exchange. At last, the cultivators' dream had come to life: a world where ideas could roam free, taking root wherever they were needed most.And so, the Enlightenment Conservatory was transformed. No longer a place of exclusion, it became a symbol of what could be achieved when knowledge, discovery, and insight were shared freely and openly, for the benefit of all. The cultivators continued their work, more inspired than ever, knowing that their intellectual blooms would flourish in a world where everyone could enjoy them, without barriers, without walls. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://blog.stephenturner.us?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">blog.stephenturner.us</a>

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