Welcome to Unfiltered Academia, the podcast that helps you break free from the traditional academic mold and take control of your professional development. Whether you're navigating life within academia as a grad student or early-career researcher or exploring career opportunities beyond the ivory tower, we aim to provide honest, practical advice to inspire you and help you develop the tools you need to succeed in whatever path you choose and design a career that works for you. Tune in and start building your future on *your* terms! Follow on Instagram @academicrelations and TikTok @academic_relations
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23 Feb 2025
Common Problems and How to Manage Them (Part 1)
Academics often get no management training, and this can cause issues! This is the first part of a set of episodes I'll be doing on common problems and how to manage them. Here, we're focusing on catastrophizing, addressing the effects of problems instead of the cause, hiding mistakes, a lack of strategic planning, and emotional vs. rational responses.
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16 Feb 2025
Toxic Job? Get Something Out Of It Anyway
Have a difficult manager? A boss who doesn't see your value? No work-life balance? Toxic situations suck, but they can also be opportunities for developing skills that are valuable to us throughout our careers. Take a break from scrolling through toxic job snapshots on the socials and learn how to take some of those bad environments to develop useful skills for future positions and leadership. If your job is taking advantage of you, take advantage back and use it to become a more confident, measured, and rational person with better communication skills.
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8 Feb 2025
The Journal of the Academy of Public Health: It’s Not What It Seems
Living up to the "unfiltered" in my podcast title with this commentary on the new Journal of the Academy of Public Health. What this looks like, at least with the available information, is a right-wing-affiliated journal claiming to break down barriers to publication while using a members-only publication model with paid-for positive reviews and deceptive language that feigns legitimacy. A potentially dangerous source of science misinformation!
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26 Jan 2025
Research Funding & Toxic Culture: Academia as a Business Model
This episode focuses on the role of obtaining funding in academia and how this is linked to the toxic aspects of academic culture. If you've ever felt pressured by the 'business-model' approach and focus on generating revenue that has been creeping into how research is done, I hope this episode helps you feel less alone. The problem is real, and it has substantial effects on academic culture.
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21 Jan 2025
Decision-Making Toolkit
This episode is focused on identifying our values, goals, and motivations when making career decisions. It is based on a workshop I gave at the 2022 Big 10 Neurosciences conference and there is a workbook that goes along with it that's attached to this episode and available on my website (academicrelations.net (http://academicrelations.net)). You can, of course, listen without doing the exercises!
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13 Jan 2025
Are YOU bad at your job?
In this episode, we discuss becoming comfortable with being bad at things and how recognizing and acknowledging our weaknesses can be one of our greatest tools for growth and development. Get ready to embrace sucking at something this week!
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5 Jan 2025
Where Are You Getting Your Advice?
In this episode of Unfiltered Academia, we're talking about advice, where to find it, and how to critically analyze it to make sure it aligns with your goals. As always, my main focus is on academia, but much of this episode can apply to life in general.
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13 Dec 2024
Impostor Syndrome
Ever get the feeling like everyone is going to find out you're a fraud who knows nothing about anything... despite being an expert in your field? "Impostor Syndrome" affects 70% of people at some point in their career. You are NOT alone! This episode covers some common triggers of this unfortunate side-effect to learning and growth and some ideas for reducing its impact on you!
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7 Dec 2024
Resilience and Non-Attachment
Pressured to act resilient despite increasing unreasonable demands? Stressed by the possibilities of different outcomes and feel like you need to keep doing more to alleviate that anxiety? Can't leave your work at home? You're not alone! In this episode, we talk about developing true resilience by breaking free from attachment to outcomes and cultivating a work/life balance that allows you to maintain the energy you need to work without having work take over your life.
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5 Dec 2024
Research Article Rescue
Writing research articles can be challenging, but it doesn't have to be! This episode focuses on structuring a scientific research article, writing for a scientific audience, and selecting the best journal for sharing your work with the best audience for it.
Want a written guide to structuring scientific research articles to go along with this? Get my Research Article Rescue e-book here: https://www.academicrelations.net/product-page/research-article-rescue (https://www.academicrelations.net/product-page/research-article-rescue)
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