News for graduates and postdocs at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
31. Jan 2024
MLU has recently released the new statutes on good scientific practice (in German). Every researcher at MLU has to comply with the rules of good scientific practice.
Satzung über die Grundsätze zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis und über den Umgang mit Vorwürfen wissenschaftlichen Fehlverhaltens an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Amtsblatt 34. Jahrgang, Nr. 1 vom 16. Januar 2024, S. 1
23. Jan 2024
You can register to the iDiv Summer School 2024 “Plant-pollinator interactions in restored grasslands”, 23 to 30 May 2024, in Leipzig, Germany! This iDiv Summer School is led by Tiffany Knight.
The 2024 iDiv summer school will provide students with hands-on experience in pollination ecology research. We will teach using a case study comparing restored to reference grasslands for the diversity and composition of plants and pollinators and the structure of plant-pollinator interaction networks.
For more information and the link for application, please visit www.idiv.de/summerschool.
This summer school is aimed at Bachelor students (in their final years) and/or MSc students, specializing in the fields of botany, ecology, entomology or other related fields from around the world. We are open to considering students from other career stages (e.g., PhD students, postdoctoral associates) if they are good motivation for wanting an introduction to this topic. Participants from regions often underrepresented in science can apply for funding.
Deadline for applications is 18 February 2024.
15. Jan 2024
R has become a leading statistical programming language in data science and statistics. The R software is free, highly extensible, and allows to easily produce publication-quality plots. The aim of this course is to equip participants with the basic skills to effectively use the software R, embedded in the user interface RStudio. These skills will cover data import, processing and data exploration, graphical representations with ggplot2, basic concepts of statistical inference and linear regression. All topics will be demonstrated in working examples and practiced with hands on examples.
In the first two days we are going to teach the basic functionality of R, RStudio, and ggplot2. Day three and four are dedicated to the application of statistical tests, which will be extended to linear mixed-effects models.
Part I (March 11 and 12)
Part II (March 18 and 19)
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This online talk focuses on the DFG Funding Opportunities for Postdocs of the DFG. Further details and the dial in link can be found at Info Talks on DFG Funding Opportunities for Research Careers.
Please note: You can access the event via the link above without any password. The number of participants is limited to max. 1,000.
15. Dec 2023
“Scientific integrity forms the basis of trustworthy research,” states the preamble to the DFG’s Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice.
In his interactive workshop, Dr. Michael Schöner will address what scientific integrity or scientific misconduct means in this context and show that there are gray areas between the two extremes, using the most common problems in questions of authorship, research data management (also related to diversity and gender variables) and supervision.
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As a scientist, your reputation is your personal brand. You’re going to have one whether you choose to influence it in a particular direction or not. How others perceive you stems largely in part from your research results, your behaviors, and your overall actions. Just as in the business world, your personal brand is what defines how successful you can become, and it’s vital that you spend a portion of your resources to cultivate and protect it. In this workshop we will explore networking as an important aspect of those efforts.
12. Dec 2023
Leaving academia and looking for a job in the industry is an important and sometimes difficult step. This intensive course enables you to go through a quickly and successful job search process. It consists of live webinars and self-learning videos.
The seminar provides knowledge on:
Subject “Salaries”
In a live webinar we will talk about typical salaries for job starters and criteria which can influence the salary. We practice a salary calculation method you can use to determine a salary for a specific position. At the end various research options are introduced which you can use to find out more about a company’s internal salary structure.
Subject “Job Interviews“
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Leaving academia and looking for a job in the industry is an important and sometimes difficult step. This intensive course enables you to go through a quickly and successful job search process. It consists of live webinars and self-learning videos.
The seminar provides knowledge on:
Subject “Job Search”
In the first seminar session, we discuss which competences are often acquired during a doctorate and their relevance for companies. You find out more about job profiles in the industry which might be interesting for you and how you can find other possible jobs. In a following self-study course, you get to know various options of active and passive job search strategies, incl. job databases and activities to come into contact with employers. Furthermore, you understand how to plan and organize your individual search for future employments.
Subject “Application Documents“
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Here you find an overview of workshops of InGrA and HR department Ref 3.2 in 2024. These workshop are shaped to the needs of doctoral students and postdocs at MLU. Workshop language of InGrA and Ref 3.2 is English and German, respectively. InGrA workshops are designed for all doctoral students independent of their mother tongue. With English workshops most of scientists in an early career phase can be addressed. Please feel free to choose the workshops you are comfortable with and follow the links for further details and registration.
8. Dec 2023
Das Doktorandenkolleg „Ethik und gute Unternehmensführung“ organisiert vom 4.-6. März eine Frühjahrsakademie in Wittenberg.
Du hast Lust mit Expert*innen zu erkunden, welche Auswirkungen die Digitalisierung auf Werte wie Menschenwürde, Solidarität und Gerechtigkeit hat und wie diese verwirklicht werden können? Du interessierst dich dafür, wie führende Unternehmen diese Fragen angehen, wie z.B. Mercedes-Benz diese Werte in der Unternehmenspraxis umsetzt?
Dann bewirb dich jetzt auf einen der 20 Plätze der Frühjahrsakademie 2024 am Wittenberg-Zentrum für Globale Ethik (WZGE)!
Die Frühjahrsakademie bietet Plattform für Student*innen und Doktorand*innen, um neue Perspektiven auf das Thema „Digitalisierung, Ethik und Wirtschaft“ zu gewinnen.
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