What is a Biology-related goal of yours for 2022?
Ask a Biologist 1/3/22
Answers from Biologists:
Try to publish my first article
Pass my mussel test and be state qualified for relocation
Finally have a job in my field after completing my master’s degree
Learn more coding skills
Find an advisor for grad school
Get my master’s degree and find a PhD position
Pass my qualifying exams for my PhD
Saying “no” more. I love my job but I am more than my job.
Get into grad school and get better at identifying tracks
Finish my master’s thesis (and defend it)
Submit thesis chapters for publication
Finish my thesis
Get into grad school and gain more fieldwork experience
Coordinate with other agencies and states to improve our best management practices
Continue to advocate for and ensure research projects are properly designed
Leave Botswana to start my fieldwork for my master’s thesis
Defend my thesis
Get that international ajolote collaboration going
I have 3 manuscripts I really need to submit
Develop an internship curriculum to help prep for grad school. ArcMap, R, lit review, etc.
Every year is the same: more fish!
Get any bio-related job and or figure out if I want to do graduate school
Find a new job in this field that actually excites and motivates me
Defend my master’s thesis
Get into a good grad program
To make my certificate into a master’s degree
Finish my master’s thesis
Get better at having work/life balance and give good advice/make new people feel welcome
Read more bio/nature related books
To finish my thesis and defend
Start my master’s and be able to identify at least 5 species of nematodes without help
Find a subject for my master’s thesis
Improve my grant writing skills. I’m applying for over $300k worth of grants this year
Starting my PhD
Enroll into grad school. It is time for that next step
Finish my associate’s so I can do my bachelor’s
Get fully prepped for our offices first bison collaring effort
Learn how to slow down, say no, and prioritize life outside of work
Improve my mushroom, lichen, and mold ID skills
Learn new trapping skills and get “that promotion”
Make time to keep up on current research, especially related to win/solar/bats/birds
Come up with a thesis idea
Start my microbiology master’s program this fall
Driving trailers and mastering fly fishing
Employment and experience
Publish my PhD work that I worked on the last 4 years
To defend my dissertation (6 yrs, a move, and a kiddo later)
Pass my comprehensive exam
Finally get a job or internship in my field
Move to a new country and find as many species as I can
Work life balance. And more practice in R
Write a paper with another scientist I look up to
