Upcoming Events

If you are currently on the job market (or plan to be in the Fall) pursuing jobs with biotech companies, get feedback to improve your application materials and your chances for success.  Sign up for a time slot for 20 minute individual advising session, then EMAIL your resume in advance.  There are slots for 8 people.  YOU MUST sign up ahead of time to participate; deadline to register is Monday, February 1, 2021.

Data are the foundations of the social and biological sciences. Familiarizing yourself with a programming language can help you better understand the roles that data play in your field. Learn to develop and train your data skills for free at our R workshops! The D-Lab's R Fundamentals workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, import, export, manipulate, and visualize data, and learn to write shorthand functions of your code. After completion of this workshop you will have a foundational understanding to create, organize, and utilize workflows for your personal research. Each of the four parts is divided into a lecture-style format interrupted by short breaks, challenge problems, and discussions. Instructors and TAs are dedicated to engaging you in the classroom and answering questions in plain language. No prior experience or background knowledge is required. R Fundamentals Part 2: Subsetting and Reshaping Students will be introduced to loading data from files and various ways to subset it with an emphasis on bracket notation. You will also learn how to use logical vectors, search for and subset missing data, and merge data frames. Terms like subset, bracket notation, and logical vectors will be defined and reintroduced in Part 2.

This workshop is designed for graduate students who are interested in improving their statements ​of teaching philosophy through feedback​ ​from peers. Workshop participants will exchange statements of teaching philosophy and provide​ ​and receive input. Participants must bring two copies of a draft of their statement of teaching philosophy to participate in the workshop.

Data are the foundations of the social and biological sciences. Familiarizing yourself with a programming language can help you better understand the roles that data play in your field. Learn to develop and train your data skills for free at our R workshops! The D-Lab's R Fundamentals workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, import, export, manipulate, and visualize data, and learn to write shorthand functions of your code. After completion of this workshop you will have a foundational understanding to create, organize, and utilize workflows for your personal research. Each of the four parts is divided into a lecture-style format interrupted by short breaks, challenge problems, and discussions. Instructors and TAs are dedicated to engaging you in the classroom and answering questions in plain language. No prior experience or background knowledge is required. R Fundamentals Part 3: Data exploration Students will be introduced to data exploration and analysis in R. You will learn how to summarize data and explore it with histograms, scatterplots, and boxplots. You will also be introduced to coding statistical data analysis via t-tests, analyses of variance, correlation, and linear regression.

Geospatial Data in R, part I: Getting started with spatial data objects Part one of this two part workshop series will introduce basic methods and packages for working with geospatial data in R. Participants will learn how to import and export spatial data and store them as spatial objects. We will explore and compare several methods for mapping the data including the base plot, ggplot, ggmap and tmap libraries. We will review coordinate reference systems and methods for reading, defining and transforming these. https://dlab.berkeley.edu/training/intermediate-maxqda

Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks  Tuesday, February 9th 2:10pm-3:30pm Online: Register to receive the Zoom link Tim Vollmer and Stacy Reardon If you're looking to self-publish work of any length and want an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, allows flexibility with publishing formats (EPUB, MOBI, PDF), and provides web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be great for you. Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books, open textbooks, and open educational resources, since you can license your materials for reuse however you desire. Learn why and how to use Pressbooks for publishing your original books or course materials. You'll leave the workshop with a project already under way!

In this one hour interactive workshop, data librarians from UCLA, UCB, and UCSD will host an open discussion around data ethics focusing on case studies of participant data privacy, algorithmic bias, and the social justice components of research. The discussion will also include an overview of related resources available at various UC campuses, including further reading available through the libraries and groups on campus conducting research in these areas. https://calendar.library.ucla.edu/event/7413125

Data are the foundations of the social and biological sciences. Familiarizing yourself with a programming language can help you better understand the roles that data play in your field. Learn to develop and train your data skills for free at our R workshops! The D-Lab's R Fundamentals workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, import, export, manipulate, and visualize data, and learn to write shorthand functions of your code. After completion of this workshop you will have a foundational understanding to create, organize, and utilize workflows for your personal research. Each of the four parts is divided into a lecture-style format interrupted by short breaks, challenge problems, and discussions. Instructors and TAs are dedicated to engaging you in the classroom and answering questions in plain language. No prior experience or background knowledge is required. R Fundamentals Part 4: For loops and functions In the final part, you will learn the basics of automation through for loops and functions. We will also walk through a Monte Carlo simulation from scratch and examine the probabilistic "birthday problem".

Racial trauma has many academics oscillating between fight, flight, and freeze responses. We are fighting on committees and in our classrooms, debating how or if we should stay in harmful environments, and finding ourselves stuck as we hold our own and our community's pain. In this two-part workshop series, Dr. Della will describe the connection between trauma, healing, compassion, and collectivism. She will also introduce and guide participants through practices that help cultivate compassion and collectivism as a means to help facilitate healing from racial trauma. https://www.facultydiversity.org/webinars/cultivatingcompassionwk1

In this session, UC Berkeley’s Chief Information Security Officer and Research IT staff will talk about current trends in cybersecurity and campus resources to support graduate students and researchers at large. Members of the Berkeley Information Security Office will also discuss best practices for securing devices to keep your information safe.

The TRAIL Certificate training series is a leadership opportunity for our entire campus community to gain knowledge and skills that promote an inclusive and violence-free campus culture. Participants will explore social justice concepts and their relations to sexual and gender-based violence; understand the impact of sexual and gender-based harm and violence on survivors; interrogate societal attitudes and beliefs that normalize violence on the UC Berkeley campus; commit to fostering a respectful UC Berkeley campus community To receive a TRAIL Certificate, you must complete the entire six hours of training (Part I, Part II, and Part III). Each session is a two-hour long interactive session with breakout rooms and small group activities. Electronic materials are provided for each training session. The next sessions are in February - Thursday the 11th, 18th, and 25th from 9:30-11:30 AM. https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclc-ispjMsHtGSatyw0WKVVS3HW8rrzTtc

Grab your strategic plan and learn the secret to making it work day-to-day and week-to-week! How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities is a step-by-step guide to holding a weekly planning meeting (aka The Sunday Meeting). In this webinar you'll learn: What works…and what DOESN'T work when it comes to weekly planning Why weekly planning is the bridge between your strategic plan and getting control of your workday The 30-minute technique that will help you make sure that the most important things get done each day And much more... This is a HANDS-ON webinar where you'll not only learn the technique but actually do it! https://www.facultydiversity.org/webinars/21sundaymeet

Join members of UC Berkeley Information Security Office and Research IT in this one-hour session to learn more about password managers, specifically LastPass Premium, and free tools to use in encrypting your devices. https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvdOquqjktHtXwBK5XwTOhnJaccbIiuE1n

See organizers’ website for details Our flagship conference is a two-day event with close to 100 Ph.D. speakers who successfully transitioned from academia to industry. We hope to see you there!

https://ucberkeleygrad.campuslabs.com/engage/event/6619747

https://toastofberkeley.toastmastersclubs.org/

See organizers’ website for details Come explore the intersection of tech and social justice with alumni and professionals in a variety of technical and non-technical roles in Social Enterprise, Educational Technology, Healthcare, CleanTech, NGO’s/Non-Profits, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and more! **You must RSVP to attend and receive the zoom link and password. Make sure you have the most updated version of zoom desktop to access "choose your own breakout room". ** Note: We recommend looking up the professionals below on LinkedIn to help you prepare. You can add them after the event and see if they are open to continued contact. For more ideas on professional networking, please check out the Career Center resources on career.berkeley.edu.

Join the Career Center and GradPro for the upcoming panel: The Hiring Process from the Other Side on March 1st, 3-4:30 p.m. PST to learn more about how job application candidates are evaluated and selected. We have invited human resources professionals and hiring managers from diverse industrial backgrounds to share their insights on hiring advanced degree holders like you. If you are looking for government jobs, non-profit positions, or private corporation work, make sure to sign up for this panel! Especially for grad students and postdocs in the humanities and social sciences, but open to all grad students and postdocs.

Data are the foundations of the social and biological sciences. Familiarizing yourself with a programming language can help you better understand the roles that data play in your field. Learn to develop and train your data skills for free at our R workshops! The D-Lab's R Fundamentals workshop is a four-part introductory series that will teach you R from scratch with clear introductions, concise examples, and support documents. You will learn how to download and install the open-sourced R Studio software, import, export, manipulate, and visualize data, and learn to write shorthand functions of your code. After completion of this workshop you will have a foundational understanding to create, organize, and utilize workflows for your personal research. Each of the four parts is divided into a lecture-style format interrupted by short breaks, challenge problems, and discussions. Instructors and TAs are dedicated to engaging you in the classroom and answering questions in plain language. No prior experience or background knowledge is required. R Fundamentals Part 1: Introduction Students will learn how to navigate the R Studio environment. You will also learn how to store data, characteristics of basic data types and data structures, the importance of data frames (think Excel spreadsheets), and how to save your work.

This four-part, interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world social science application. Part 1 Topics: Running Python Jupyter notebooks Variables assignment Types conversion Strings Built-ins

This event is geared towards those students currently completing their Ph.D., M.D., J.D., Post-Doc and Masters degrees.

The Cal Career Center is pleased to invite you to attend the virtual 2021 Environment & Sustainability Career & Internship Fair. The Environment & Sustainability Career & Internship Fair is expressly for students seeking full-time and internship opportunities in the areas of the environment, sustainability, clean energy/technology, and other related fields. This fair is open only to currently-enrolled UC Berkeley students and eligible alumni (less than five years past graduation with an active Handshake account). All majors and degree levels are welcome to attend. IMPORTANT NOTES: Register for the fair! To participate in employer 1:1 and group sessions, you must be registered Advance sign up for 1:1 and group sessions with employers is highly recommended to secure your spot (day-of sign ups may be available, but the most popular slots may already be filled) CHECK AVAILABLE SESSIONS FREQUENTLY - Employers add sessions up to and including the day of the fair. If you don't see open sessions with an employer of interest, select the "follow" button to be notified when they set their schedule. Make sure your Handshake profile is up-to-date and complete! Employers have the ability to set student qualifications for their 1:1 sessions. So, for example, if your GPA is missing, you may not be able to see some employer schedules! Student Registration Opens: Wednesday, February 24, 9AM. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE VIRTUAL FAIR: Handshake’s Guide to Attending a Virtual Fair Virtual Career Fairs - Tips for Students

Interactive career labs will start with 20-30 minutes topic overview and discussion, then participants will have the opportunity to work on their own materials/skills in peer-to-peer pairs. You do not need to be currently on the job market to benefit from participating in this event; you will gain insights into interviewing dynamics and strategies for preparation that can serve you in the future. PLUS…. learn about campus resources such as Handshake, Vault and BigInterview that can help you successfully connect with potential employers. Register here: https://forms.gle/zAFGBGfGrDGPLLsGA

https://ucberkeleygrad.campuslabs.com/engage/event/6619754

D-Lab info session for the LBNL community. Come learn about all the resources and services D-Lab has to offer and see how you can get involved! We will give an overview of our workshops, trainings, consultations, services, and projects. This is also a chance for D-Lab to engage with the LBNL Community. We hope to collaborate on how the D-Lab can support and be a resource for LBNL with research or professional development. Register here. If you are not part of the LBNL community but are interested in organizing a D-Lab info session for your community, please reach out to [email protected].

Bridging the "Two Cultures": Interdisciplinary, Public, and Digital Humanities Approaches to STS Facilitated by Rebecca Baker Thursday, March 4th, 2021 4-6pm (PST) Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/9717309292 Meeting ID: 971 730 9292 The STS Futures Initiative is proud to announce our second panel discussion event for the 20-21 academic year, Bridging the "Two Cultures": Interdisciplinary, Public, and Digital Humanities Approaches to Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STS). How can humanities’ methods and foci can act as a “bridging discourse” between scientists, culture workers, and the wider public? How can students and scholars engage critically and usefully with science and technology from a humanities point of view, and what might be the implications and importance of bringing together these traditionally separate disciplinary discourses--both within and outside the academy? This event brings together the following scholars (in order of presentation), working at the intersections of STS-oriented pedagogy, the public/digital humanities, and feminist/antiracist approaches to research.: Lindsay Thomas (U of Miami): The "Big Humanities": Collaboration and Team-Based Open Research in the Digital Humanities Lindsay Thomas is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami. Her research and teaching focus on cultural and media studies, contemporary US literature, and the digital humanities. Her book, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11, will be published in March 2021 by the University of Minnesota Press. She is also a co-director of WhatEvery1Says, a digital humanities project that employs a variety of methods in data science, ethnographic research, and textual analysis to examine contemporary public discourse about the humanities on a large scale. Abigail Droge (Emory University): Reading with Scientists Dr. Abigail Droge is an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow in the Department of English at Emory University. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2018 and subsequently collaborated on the Mellon-funded digital and public humanities project “WhatEvery1Says: The Humanities in Public Discourse” as a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of reading in nineteenth-century Britain, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Victorian Periodicals Review, the Journal of Literature and Science, and Victorian Studies. She is particularly interested in considering how literature might help us to bridge specialized fields, and her teaching emphasizes connections between academic disciplines, time periods, and reading communities. Nicky Rehnberg (UC Santa Barbara): Alone, I Am Just One Tree: Community Science and the Archangel Tree Archive Nicky Rehnberg is a UC Santa Barbara graduate student in History, studying 19th- and 20th-century Environmental Public Histories. Her dissertation explores the development of national and state parks in California, particularly focusing on the areas surrounding Sequoia National Park and Redwood National and State Parks. She works on the History and Relevancy Project with the California State Parks Service, researching and creating public tours of Carpinteria State Beach and, since COVID-19, a virtual field trip week-long event with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation for Santa Barbara junior high schoolers. Kalindi Vora & Sarah McCullough (Dir & Assoc Dir of Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis): The Science We Are For: Feminist Antiracist STS Approaches to STEM Kalindi Vora is Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies and Director of the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis. She is author of Surrogate Humanity: Race Robotics and the Politics of Technological Futures (Duke 2019), co-authored with Neda Atanasoski, and Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (2015, recipient of Rachel Carson Book Prize 2018), and is one of the authors of the multigraph Technoprecarious (2020). She has published numerous ethnographic articles about gestational surrogates in India, appearing in journals such as: Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Social Identities, The South Atlantic Quarterly, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Sarah McCullough, PhD, is the Associate Director at the Feminist Research Institute. She is Co-PI on a NSF study that integrates justice-oriented frameworks from STS/ethnic studies into STEM graduate education. She participates in a multi-racial collective of transportation professionals dedicated to mobility justice and is the founder of the Mobility Justice Research Network. She applies her expertise in ethnographic methods, discourse and power analysis, and science & technology studies to create research partnerships between social science/humanities scholars, STEM researchers, and community partners. She earned her PhD in Cultural Studies with a DE in Feminist Theory & Research at UC Davis.

Alumni Career Chat: the chance to explore diverse career fields through conversation with alumni with hands-on experience. Our guest alum from operations is Bryce Schierenbeck. He has had a varied and impressive career and is now GlobalOperations Lead for Charitable Giving (Fundraisers) at Facebook. Bryce is looking forward to sharing his experience and insights in this Career Chat. Take advantage of this opportunity to meet Bryce in an informal conversation.

Telling Your Story To Employers Part 3: more practice to make use of the techniques