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Climate Change Career PanelLearn about potential career paths for folks who are interested in leveraging their data skills to inform research and policies on climate change. Featured panelists include Jackie Dean @ Woodwell Climate Research Center, Gillian Galford @ the University of Vermont, Mathew Hauer @ the Florida State University, and Esteban J. Quiñones @ Mathematica. The virtual panel takes place on Thursday, Feb. 16 from 3PM -
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Background: Ciera earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Northeastern Illinois University. She earned her PhD in Plant Biology with an emphasis in molecular biology and genomics from the University of California, Davis, where she also completed an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. Ciera was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS).
Current Role: Ciera is a Research Lead of Biodiversity and Environmental Data Science at BIDS where she studies how organisms adapt in response to the environment. In addition to her research, Ciera advocates for the adoption of open science principles to fuel scientific access and innovation. Ciera is also on the planning committee for ImageXD 2023 which convenes researchers who work with images as a primary source of data to learn about the latest developments in a variety of fields.
Outside of work: Ciera is generous with her knowledge and time. She regularly shares her data science expertise with audiences and organizations that share her commitment to open science and strive to make the field more inclusive. Ciera also co-leads Data Science by Design (DSxD) which is a community of practice that celebrates and supports those who leverage creative mediums, design thinking, and storytelling to convey practice and insights of data.
When Ciera isn’t contributing to and growing data science communities, she is deepening her skills in ceramics and knitting.
Connect with Ciera: Ciera is always open to collaboration. Find out how to get in touch by checking out Ciera's profile in the CDN Member Directory which shares links to her website and social media profiles.
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RESOURCES & OPPORTUNITIES |
ResourcesOpportunities
- The annual MIDAS Future Leaders Summit is accepting nominations for US grad students and postdocs who want to engage in research discussions with peers and research leaders. Travel costs will be covered for selected attendees. Nomination deadline is Feb. 20.
- The Congressional Research Service is accepting applications for an Analyst in Agricultural Policy, GS-11 until Feb. 20.
- SciPy 2023 is calling for proposals for their 22nd annual conference, which will be held at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Austin, TX, from Jul. 10-16. Proposals must be submitted by Feb. 22.
- Women in or entering a full-time graduate statistics program are invited to apply for the Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship. Two scholarship recipients will be selected. Apply by Feb. 23.
- Lewis & Clark College invites applications for a 2-year post-doctoral position in their Data Science program. Review of applications will begin Feb. 25.
- The University of Arizona is hiring an assistant or associate geospatial librarian/specialist. First review date is Feb. 27.
- The Carpentries is accepting applications from folks interested in training Trainers. They only offer this training 1-2 times per year. Apply by Feb. 27.
- The Department of Demography at UC Berkeley is hiring a 1-year postdoctoral fellow with the possibility of 1-year renewal. Apply by Mar. 1.
- Data & Society is calling for applications to present work on the current socio-technical implications of digital doppelgangers, from deep fakes to digital diagnostics, to government programs that tie services to behavior tracking. The online workshop will be held from May 4 - 5. Apply by Mar. 1.
- North Carolina A&T State University invites full-time undergraduate students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher to apply for their 10-week Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program. Apply by Mar. 8.
- The American Council of Learned Societies invites recent PhDs across all fields of the humanities and humanistic social sciences to apply for their 2-year Leading Edge Fellowship. Apply by Mar. 15.
- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites undergraduate students to apply to attend their 10-week in-person summer program called The Future of Discovery: Training Students to Build and Apply Open Source Machine Learning Models and Tools. Apply by Mar. 15.
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is awarding grants of up to $250,000 for faculty-led original research projects on the history of science, tech, economics, and social science. The Sloan Foundation is also awarding a grant of up to $75K to support dissertation research on the same topic. Apply by Mar. 16.
- The European Doctoral School of Demography Program, hosted at INED in Paris, is accepting applications from those who hold a master's degree or will complete their degree before the program begins on Sep. 4, 2023. Apply by Apr. 19.
- DuoLingo is hiring a PhD AI research intern at their Pittsburgh, PA, office. Expected graduation must be Aug. 2025 or sooner.
- The Core Data Science team at Meta is looking for a social science PhD research scientist intern.
- The Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute is looking for a data scientist. The Urban Institute is also hiring a research analyst. Both are hybrid positions in the DC area.
- A list of 380+ postdoc fellowships curated by Johns Hopkins University. Be sure to check the dates carefully before spending time on the application - some of the opportunities are past due.
- Posit (formerly RStudio) is hiring a remote Quarto Developer Advocate with Jupyter experience.
- We're accepting session proposals for the ADSA Annual Meeting this fall (Oct. 24-26). Proposals should align with our theme Data Science in Health, Well-being, and the Arts.
See more jobs and events on ADSA's website.
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