I have currently taken a drop year and I wish to gain more knowledge apart from academics before joining any iiser or medical college but I have no idea where to start from. Kindly suggest good sources of research papers I should read and also internships or courses I can apply to. P.S. I have completed class 12th this year securing 90.2%, pcmb, scored 438 in reneet and 131 in iat.

Thank you.

Note: I am NOT asking the fine folks here to engage in this survey.

Hey guys I’m currently working on an equation, and I have a base model set up but I need to survey people in order to calibrate the weights of the equation. Issue is, however, I am not sure how to get enough people to make this equation to be large enough to state the average person’s feelings on each variable. Furthermore the survey has to do with fear and such uncomfortable feelings.

So where should I look for a large enough scale of people?

I need to screen a candidate biomrker across severl tumor types plus normal controls, but building individual slides fr eacch case would take too much. Someone suggested a TMA but I've never ordered one before. What actually matters when picking a vendor for this?

Early-career researcher here, almost a year out of my PhD. Research background and interests are broadly in kinesiology. Have a decent academic record comprising of 8 published outputs, 3 of which are first author.

Was on the North American academic job market this year, but couldn't land an offer unfortunately. Don't really have a strong network of mid-career and seasoned researchers; have found academia, in my field at least, to be insular and isolating especially as a person of color.

Confidence is currently low as I've had to work independently in my home country and don't have institutional support to grow consistently as a researcher and educator. Former supervisor and most committee members are unresponsive now as I'm no longer a grad student, so I have no reliable, trusted and accessible source of mentorship. I'm not inclined to follow up with them as they've not shown any interest in staying connected and also might not have the bandwidth to provide further mentorship at this point.

Reaching out here for genuine help and advice regarding the below points:

1) How do ECRs in similar circumstances manage to get mentors to collaborate on projects and grow their research portfolio? Traveling to conferences to meet professors and researchers is not an option due to how expensive they are. Also, most valuable conferences happen in Global North locations. I really want to be a part of collaborative applied research projects that do meaningful work and build long-term relations with senior authors.

2) Without an active institutional affiliation or current mentors with academic jobs, how do young researchers navigate ethics/IRB applications when wanting to do empirical projects?

3) Any actionable, specific advice on how to efficiently and independently create high-impact publications (empirical, conceptual, theoretical, reviews) that get more visibility and can advance one's profile? This is assuming I have to write papers by myself if finding collaborative opportunities is difficult/not possible. Having a strong record will help me land an academic job next cycle.

Trolls and chronically online toxic folks with nothing valuable to add can skip this.

Thank you

Hello everyone! I was trying to learn more about this journal before I submit anything but I have found a lack of reviews/recognition online. That is not a problem for me, my goals are centered around a free, safe (not predatory), and relatively quick response time (8-12 weeks) rather than recognition or prestige. Here is the link to the journal:

https://www.ijrcom.org/index.php/ijrc/announcement

Can anyone who has either submitted here or just has experience in research/submission provide any insight if this a valid journal?

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone has successfully exported multiple condition or procedure concept sets into a single Data Snapshot in Workbench 2.

In my current setup in Data Explorer, I've selected ~20 different condition concepts and multiple procedure concepts, but the snapshot summary only shows one condition (Photosensitivity) under condition_occurrence and one procedure (Endoscopy) under procedure_occurrence. Multiple survey questions, on the other hand, seem to combine correctly into a single survey_occurrence table.

I've spent hours trying different things with no luck. Not sure if I'm missing something or if this is just a limitation of Data Snapshots. If anyone has gotten this to work, I'd really appreciate the help. Thanks in advance!