I have set up several Google Scholar alerts for articles. It works extremely well. I also follow everyone I can in my field on Twitter. My field is evolutionary biology.

I just uploaded three articles in the last two weeks to BioRxiv. The papers were previously just sitting in review. I have already received several emails thanking and informing me that my work is influencing the manuscripts they are writing - more citations. Overall the experience has been an extremely positive experience for me. I don't really see any downsides. So excited for the revolution.

the amazing thing is that arXiv has always had a "quantitative bio" section, and I guess it took a sea change for this to be come a thing in bio.

It's a social problem, not a technical one. The main new features bioRxiv has are comments and digital object identifiers (DOIs).

At least originally, I believe bioArxiv's raison d'etre was to give biologists more assistance in producing professionally typeset documents (since far fewer of them know LaTeX then physicists). Not sure that's still true.

Does anyone know if deactivation helps with any of these privacy concerns? I have had my account deactivated for 4 years. I keep it open just in case I need to get ahold of someone if I can't get through through phone and email (which has happened!).

This is a great site for audio recording of his writing and interviews: http://www.dfwaudioproject.org/

This is really interesting to me. I can't hear it and I am a native english speaker. I was just in a room of people and played it and everyone clicked into the meaning right away. I played it about seven more times and I guess I kind of hear it now, but still, not really.

I did horrible in elementary school and high school until I realized I was what I labelled myself a "visual learner". I excelled in college and am just about to finish my PhD in evolutionary biology, largely because I stopped attending lectures and decided to learn everything on my own. After listening to this illusion I decided to search for auditory dyslexia and sure enough there are disorders like this and I definitely fit the definition, especially central auditory processing disorder. Does anyone know if this test is correlated with audio disorders or where I can get more information on this?

I wonder if I have something similar. Often times when someone spells a word or recites a number, it's as if I'm completely "spaced out" and don't get any of the information (while actively paying attention) unless I make a conscious effort to visualize the letters/digits as they are being spoken. I also frequently experience visual disturbance type dyslexia when reading and I always assumed the two phenomena were somehow related.

If anyone wants to delve a little deeper into these topics I highly suggest Patterns in the plane and beyond: symmetry in two and three dimensions. By B.G. Thomas and M.A. Hann.

The PDF is available for free.

http://ulita.leeds.ac.uk/docs/Ars_Textrina/Monographs/Patter...

I think the author forgot to mention you must love economics. People get their PhD in the field they love, they don't do it for money or job prospects.

I am one of the dreaded lab PhDs and simply love my life because I love biology. I also have jobs lined up when I graduate because I did well. I did well because I loved my work which enabled me do a lot of work.

The thought of myself getting an economics PhD seems horrifying because I have no interest in it. But hey, if you love economics...

...but there are links to Pinterest and Instagram.

I have never had a LinkedIn and I just counted 213 LinkedIn messages in my gmail account (yes, I am horrible at deleting emails). Their email spamming has turned me off to ever trying LinkedIn.

Do people actually find LinkedIn useful anyway? Everyone I know has an account, but I have never actually met a person who has found a job through using the site.

I actually find it pretty useful. I've used it to cold call people in different companies and functional roles just to pick their brains, people are surprisingly open to it.

Also, it's helpful as a contact database when a former colleague changes their email address/phone number.

The "request an intro" is pretty good to just to see how you're connected. If you know someone in common with a person it tends to lower the barrier of a cold call.

Note: by cold call I don't mean selling, just getting a chance to talk to someone interesting; i.e. you see an interesting role and want to get the real deal about a company

>Do people actually find LinkedIn useful anyway?

It's great for finding out when people you know are looking for a job. You start receiving recommendation/endorsement requests.

I think everyone is digging way too deep into the significance of this event. Public speaking is hard for everyone and most people could benefit from workshops like these no matter the gender. One of the hardest aspects of public speaking is feeling comfortable being the center of attention. I imagine a tech specific speaking workshop, which is open to everyone, would involve the usual gender discrepancy, making standing out more amplified. This group is just one way in which to ease into the uncomfortableness of standing out.