Thanks Andy!!! I really enjoyed this explanation 🙏❤️ It all makes sense as I worked across 4 Universities and recognise those levels in the work some of the Professors were involved in.
Mate, Convincing should be level 1. You have to convince the interview panel to chose you to do a PhD in the first place, if it's that type of PhD. The smooth, persuasive, convincing person who can make you feel like you're the centre of their world can slip up that pyramid plant their flag then, for example, do the same in business. I speak from experience as a big mentor of mine did just that. But....gotta keep the content consistent 🙂
Good video- and succinct too! I think that's a good summary of how scientific careers evolve. GIven that you've managed to fit a lot into a short space, it's picky to suggest you've left things out, but: I would argue that you failed to mention one important aspect, which arguably separates the good from the great, and that's a question which comes in at level 2/3 and also becomes important at level 5: being able to ask (and answer) the question: what's worth doing? You talk about "finding your niche" and that's arguably the problem. In academia you can do pretty well if you find a niche and mine it for all its worth, without ever doing anything really worthwhile (although part of the "convincing" skillset is to try and pitch your research papers at better journals than they deserve). One of the problems with academia is that when you find your niche you can also get stereotyped. This is still avoidable after your PhD but after one or two postdocs... you're doomed. What's worth doing? Another difficult issue is that "what's worth doing" and "what's best for playing the game" are not necessarily the same thing. As a side note: the best PhD students I have seen have managed to do good theses which have a diversity to them (depends on your field of course). And, at the same time (networking!) they've managed to land on a few papers which aren't part of their thesis because they spent a bit of time meaningfully helping someone else somewhere. One of the skills in networking and collaborating is contract negotiation: who will lead? who is first author? who will do the work? who will be on the paper? These contracts are nearly always verbal, and you may not even realise that you've just made one.... but, in effect, you have.
Sorry for this but TH-cam won't let me make comments unless I reply to a comment. My question is how do I write a proposal for systematic literature review.
Great presentation!! 😊What if you succeed in each level but the environment doesn’t allow for growth (basically wrong leadership). I think it is a very important factor to be able to move to the next level 🤔
Thanks Andy for great videos. I’m a Clinical Psychologist. I’m senior in industry and for many years I’ve also been an adjunct lecturer. For three years I’ve also been teaching extensively on the professional graduate school programme. I have 2 journal publications. I’m 49 - is it too old to move to fulltime academia? Would a university consider me too old, even though I have serious teaching experience as an adjunct?
Hi Andy! I’m wondering if there are any AI tools or other useful resources available to help analyze SPSS outputs. Additionally, I’m interested in finding out if there are similar tools for conducting quantitative analysis. Thank you!
Just my two cents, but I really think AI is going to take over a lot of management tasks. It'll probably be able to come up with answers to questions way faster than we can even check them. We'll probably need to test those answers, though, because even if it's super fast, it might still get things wrong.
And then you end up working for this level 6 professor who invents reasons why you shouldn't do this or that, why you should give away all ideas to him, and why your salary can never increase.
Reason I realized that research was not for me was you can't get rich in academia and you can't lone wolf it either. Imagine if we had 400 super star lone wolf researchers that rivals CEOs in 400 big corps, unfortunately humanity isn't fancying research/progress enough, only hope left is AGI.
It is the most abstract one indeed. You have to define how you and your team move as a group in order to address challenges. I'm trying to formulate our lab methodology in general terms by decomposition and listing the "research services" we can provide to other teams with our knowledge and structure. This effort has started functioning and was able to attract two real promising collaboration opportunities.
Oh! Bixia! Oh! First Emperor of China! please give me funding! I beg you! I can deliver for you, Elixir of Immortality! Mercury! Bixia! Mercury is the key element to unlock the secret to immortality! Oh! Your Excellency President Xi! please give me funding! I can deliver for you, the world's first working quantum computer that can replaces the classical computer. Just nurture my research and academic career until I can retire comfortably as an emeritus professor at age 80, this is a very very very difficult research project, it needs a lots of time, manpower, resources and paper publications. Sounds convincing enough? Your University president/chancellor and your PhD supervisor are walking back to their offices, laughing. "True, true, as long as the head of a nation or a government cannot answer the question "From where does the industry comes from?" completely and verbally on the spot under 10 seconds, then he is a fool and a fool and his money soon part way!, So let us continue milk the government funding into the university coffer". A beggar, a scammer, a bullshitter and a thief = A Scientist-Professor.
I miss doing. It was the most fun and least stress. Not much money but enjoyment was by far the highest.
a good description of project management that expands on strategy, tactics and risk management to enthuse a team
The third level ‘Design’ was at the bottom of our programme. Every Master's student and then PhD student first had to write a proposal.
So, the end goal is to become a prestigious beggar
Thanks Andy!!! I really enjoyed this explanation 🙏❤️
It all makes sense as I worked across 4 Universities and recognise those levels in the work some of the Professors were involved in.
Mate, Convincing should be level 1. You have to convince the interview panel to chose you to do a PhD in the first place, if it's that type of PhD. The smooth, persuasive, convincing person who can make you feel like you're the centre of their world can slip up that pyramid plant their flag then, for example, do the same in business. I speak from experience as a big mentor of mine did just that. But....gotta keep the content consistent 🙂
Good video- and succinct too! I think that's a good summary of how scientific careers evolve. GIven that you've managed to fit a lot into a short space, it's picky to suggest you've left things out, but: I would argue that you failed to mention one important aspect, which arguably separates the good from the great, and that's a question which comes in at level 2/3 and also becomes important at level 5: being able to ask (and answer) the question: what's worth doing?
You talk about "finding your niche" and that's arguably the problem. In academia you can do pretty well if you find a niche and mine it for all its worth, without ever doing anything really worthwhile (although part of the "convincing" skillset is to try and pitch your research papers at better journals than they deserve). One of the problems with academia is that when you find your niche you can also get stereotyped. This is still avoidable after your PhD but after one or two postdocs... you're doomed. What's worth doing? Another difficult issue is that "what's worth doing" and "what's best for playing the game" are not necessarily the same thing.
As a side note: the best PhD students I have seen have managed to do good theses which have a diversity to them (depends on your field of course). And, at the same time (networking!) they've managed to land on a few papers which aren't part of their thesis because they spent a bit of time meaningfully helping someone else somewhere. One of the skills in networking and collaborating is contract negotiation: who will lead? who is first author? who will do the work? who will be on the paper? These contracts are nearly always verbal, and you may not even realise that you've just made one.... but, in effect, you have.
Sorry for this but TH-cam won't let me make comments unless I reply to a comment. My question is how do I write a proposal for systematic literature review.
I admire the way you speak, your sense of humour is amaaaaazing.....
Well said!
This is helpful. I reckon some of these also work alongside each other at certain levels.
I heard " there are Sick Skills for research" and I was hooked :)
Such great advice thank you, i'm a big fan of your channel!
Really love this model!
Great presentation!! 😊What if you succeed in each level but the environment doesn’t allow for growth (basically wrong leadership). I think it is a very important factor to be able to move to the next level 🤔
Thanks Andy for great videos. I’m a Clinical Psychologist. I’m senior in industry and for many years I’ve also been an adjunct lecturer. For three years I’ve also been teaching extensively on the professional graduate school programme. I have 2 journal publications. I’m 49 - is it too old to move to fulltime academia? Would a university consider me too old, even though I have serious teaching experience as an adjunct?
Mah.....where I did my PhD all of those steps started all the first day. I was immediatelly involved in do, design conceptualize, train, transfer etc.
Second above, all are scarier
Hi Andy! I’m wondering if there are any AI tools or other useful resources available to help analyze SPSS outputs. Additionally, I’m interested in finding out if there are similar tools for conducting quantitative analysis. Thank you!
Just my two cents, but I really think AI is going to take over a lot of management tasks. It'll probably be able to come up with answers to questions way faster than we can even check them. We'll probably need to test those answers, though, because even if it's super fast, it might still get things wrong.
And then you end up working for this level 6 professor who invents reasons why you shouldn't do this or that, why you should give away all ideas to him, and why your salary can never increase.
I've never seen you turn red like that. It was FUNNY!
Andy do a video on NotebookLM by Google - please
Reason I realized that research was not for me was you can't get rich in academia and you can't lone wolf it either. Imagine if we had 400 super star lone wolf researchers that rivals CEOs in 400 big corps, unfortunately humanity isn't fancying research/progress enough, only hope left is AGI.
This seems pretty focused on natural sciences. Even social science doesn’t work like this, never mind philosophy or languages
If someone becomes unstuck, doesn’t that mean they’re not stuck anymore?
I don't understand the design level
It is the most abstract one indeed. You have to define how you and your team move as a group in order to address challenges. I'm trying to formulate our lab methodology in general terms by decomposition and listing the "research services" we can provide to other teams with our knowledge and structure. This effort has started functioning and was able to attract two real promising collaboration opportunities.
Oh! Bixia! Oh! First Emperor of China! please give me funding! I beg you! I can deliver for you, Elixir of Immortality! Mercury! Bixia! Mercury
is the key element to unlock the secret to immortality!
Oh! Your Excellency President Xi! please give me funding! I can deliver for you, the world's first working quantum computer that can
replaces the classical computer. Just nurture my research and academic career until I can retire comfortably as an emeritus professor
at age 80, this is a very very very difficult research project, it needs a lots of time, manpower, resources and paper publications.
Sounds convincing enough?
Your University president/chancellor and your PhD supervisor are walking back to their offices, laughing. "True, true, as
long as the head of a nation or a government cannot answer the question "From where does the industry comes from?" completely
and verbally on the spot under 10 seconds, then he is a fool and a fool and his money soon part way!, So let us continue milk the
government funding into the university coffer".
A beggar, a scammer, a bullshitter and a thief = A Scientist-Professor.
If the rules rule out several steps then? Talks.
Six levels?
Source?
Citing sources is so level-1. Sorry I'm busy doing level 5.
you are fine example on why science is not to be trusted, thank you
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