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Building a Scholarly Communications Career in Uncertain Times
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Building a Scholarly Communications Career in Uncertain Times
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
MIKE DI NATALE: Taking time out of your day, to join us here in our interactive early career focused session here. I'm going to share my screen and show some slides to help me through describing the session, setting us up. I do want to emphasize that today is-- we're kind of having an experiment here. We're going to do a little interactive session that's going to be mostly breakout focused and kind of informal.
MIKE DI NATALE: So I hope you're all here, and ready to meet some new people, and have some interesting discussions. So the session is Building a Scholarly Communications Career in Uncertain Times. This is a session that was developed by the early career subcommittee here at SSP, which I'm a member of, and a couple of the other facilitators are as well. The goal of the session today is to provide a space for early and mid-career members of the SSP, to sort of-- get together to discuss issues that may have come up over the last year and-- you might have heard, there was a pandemic, there's still a pandemic.
MIKE DI NATALE: And that's provided a lot of challenges for people as we've gone to remote work. And so we wanted to have this session to maybe talk through some of those challenges and strategies for dealing with them. The goal here is to have interaction and share ideas with peers and maybe learn from some collective experiences. Now, the structure for today is that attendees are going to be added to small breakout rooms.
MIKE DI NATALE: I can't see right now how many people are in the room, but we'll go for small groups here. We have a facilitator, we have eight facilitators lined up today. And they'll lead those discussions in the breakout rooms. They're really there to guide and provide some prompts. But really what we want to see is people interact with each other and share some experiences from this year.
MIKE DI NATALE: What we're going to do is we're going to do one set of breakout rooms, cover a couple of topics, come back out to the main room, share some key points perhaps, while we're setting up the second round of breakout rooms. That way, people get to shuffle around and meet some different people between each of the sessions. So the goals out of this discussion, meet new people and ask lots of questions. Hopefully we've got a big group of participants today and you can share experiences.
MIKE DI NATALE: But we also have a really good set of facilitators with different backgrounds, level of experience. And they are more than willing to help guide the discussion, answer questions that may come up. So with that in mind, I'm going to quickly allow the facilitators to introduce themselves. I apologize, because I didn't tell them what the order was going to be.
MIKE DI NATALE: So we're going to go through the list left to right here. So Caroline, could you just introduce yourself for the [INAUDIBLE]?
CAROLINE BREUL: Yeah, sounds great. Hi, my name is Caroline Breul. My pronouns are she, her, hers. And I am currently BioOne's library services associate.
LAUREN KANE: Hi, everyone, I'm Lauren Kane. I'm the current president for SSP, and also the chief publishing officer for Morressier. I'm very happy to be part of this session.
SAI KONDA: Hi, everyone, this is Sai Konda, Senior Managing Editor at the American Chemical Society. I also serve on the board of directors for SSP. And I'm excited to be part of the panel. Thank you.
MIKE DI NATALE: I think Shalini is missing, so we go to Rebecca.
REBECCA MCLEOD: Hey, everyone. I'm Rebecca MacLeod. I'm managing director for Harvard--
SHALINI BHATT: Hi, I am here.
MIKE DI NATALE: Oh, I'm sorry. Hey, Shalini.
REBECCA MCLEOD: Do you want to go?
SHALINI BHATT: So, I work for a UK based publishing specialist recruitment agency, Inspired Selection. Where I specialize in scholarly publishing positions and really great to be part SSP team this year.
REBECCA MCLEOD: Hi, again, everybody. I'm Rebecca McLeod. I'm the managing director for Harvard Data Science Review. And I'm also on the board of SSP. And I'm really happy to be here.
RYAN FARRELL: Hey everyone. I'm Ryan Farrell. I'm a Senior Publications Manager at the American Gastroenterological Association. And I'm also the co-chair of the SSP early career subcommittee. And I just wanted to say thank you to Mike, who's really been the steward of this entire session, which has been the outgrowth of some of our work on that committee.
VIOLAINE IGLESIAS: Hi, I'm Violaine Iglesias. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Cadmore Media, which is a video and event hosting company. And I'm also part of the SSP DC subgroup. So very happy to be here.
GREGG TAYLOR: Hey everyone. I'm Gregg Taylor. I'm the licensing manager for ABA. And I'm looking forward to the conversations we're going to have today. Glad to be here.
MIKE DI NATALE: You're going to have to excuse me for a moment while I set up the breakout rooms. We should be there in just a moment.
MIKE DI NATALE: All right, so I'm going to push out the breakout rooms now. Going to be in the first breakout room for about 20 minutes. And then I'll pull everyone back in and switch it up again. So see you guys on the other side. And I hope you guys have some good discussions.
MIKE DI NATALE: Hi, everyone. Hopefully the first set of breakouts went all right. Probably give just a few--
MIKE DI NATALE: How was your breakout room, Caroline? Popped in for the last second.
CAROLINE BREUL: No, you popped in right as we sort of began to wind down. It's like, well, this looks great. A wild Mike appears.
CAROLINE BREUL: Yeah. It was great. I'm really grateful for all the participants.
REBECCA MCLEOD: Yeah, we had a great session. I could have gone on longer. [INTERPOSING VOICES]
SHALINI BHATT: Absolutely.
AUDIENCE: Mike, you pulled me into three different rooms.
MIKE DI NATALE: I know, it was [INAUDIBLE].. Yeah, I figured if there was one person I could move around multiple times it'd be you.
AUDIENCE: Yeah. Thanks for that.
MIKE DI NATALE: Seasoned professional. But yeah, so, give people-- I think the breakout rooms should have all wound down by now. So I'm going to start setting up new breakout rooms. So we can go back to the discussions. But if any of the facilitators want to raise anything interesting or some key points that may have came up in the breakout rooms right now, that'd be of time, while I futz around with the breakout rooms.
REBECCA MCLEOD: I know our group, overall, people were busier during the pandemic than not. And even, as someone was sharing, the fact that many of his friends were not busy. And he was just crushed by the workload. And I think this being in-- being busy, changing jobs, and then social distancing navigating that was just so very overwhelming.
SHALINI BHATT: Sounds like it. We had an interesting discussion, about work/life satisfaction as opposed to work/life balance. So a few people I was talking to had been working remotely anyway, either in the job that they'd started or, in previous jobs, it was just the way that they work. And yeah, one of the girls said that they focus on work/life satisfaction. So it's not about kind of assigning things and making it too strict, but just focusing more on how things make you feel, which I thought was really interesting.
SHALINI BHATT: I've not heard it described as that before. I like that concept a lot.
VIOLAINE IGLESIAS: And we had a similar conversation. But it was work/life integration. And same, a lot of us were working remotely before, but there's definitely those who want to go back to the office and those who don't. Clear divide.
GREGG TAYLOR: One of the things we heard was how the changes, whether it affected our particular jobs or not, were helping to manage authors or other people in the workflows were dealing with a lot of changes. And how we kind of-- the work that we did, was changed by the changes in other people's lives and workflows.
SAI KONDA: And we were lucky to have Susan, CEO, president of BioOne in our group. And she had an excellent advice to share for early career professionals is to get experience in accounting to understand financials no matter what your background is, because that is absolutely essential for people to move up in their careers. So know your math, know your numbers.
SAI KONDA: And understand numbers.
VIOLAINE IGLESIAS: My advice is laundry meetings. She's better, hers is better. Just move around however you can.
MIKE DI NATALE: Sounds like that was super productive. I'm going to kick us all back out to breakout rooms for another 20 minutes or so and hopefully meet some new faces, and have some great discussions. See you guys on the other side. Hey, everyone. I'm sorry I had to cut off people.
MIKE DI NATALE: I'm sure that was mid-conversation. I know the session I was just sitting in on, there was a sci-fi book club debate and proposals to share that with the industry. Gregg, I think you should probably suggest that.
GREGG TAYLOR: I'll get it in there.
MIKE DI NATALE: For some reason, I think there's probably, there'll be many takers in our industry. But yeah, so I mean, we're about at time. I just want to pull out of a few minutes early and just see if anyone-- something came up that was worth sharing with this group quickly. But also, before I get into that, I just want to thank everyone again for attending. And especially our facilitators.
MIKE DI NATALE: But they're also, just coming by and having discussions, every breakout room I hopped into, it seemed like there was an active exchange of ideas going on, which I'm pretty pleased to see. Yeah, so just the last minute, was there anything interesting that came up in his last breakout sessions?
RYAN FARRELL: Hey, this is Ryan. The group that I was just in had a lot of interesting conversation. But one thing that stuck out to me was the effort at trying to socialize outside of work virtually was a great way to kind of relationship build, in lieu of the sort of in-office, in-person interaction. So people were mentioning playing Animal Crossing together, Among Us.
RYAN FARRELL: So I mentioned I have a regular game night, where we do tabletop gaming virtually with my boss and a few other people. So in lieu of being able to interact and have those water-cooler moments quote, unquote. Try to-- and kind of the forced mandatory fun event, that zoom call, you made a call, and try to connect with a few people as friends and do something socially.
RYAN FARRELL: Video games being just one example, book club, as someone else mentioned, as you guys mentioned, those are some options.
LAUREN KANE: I would just put in a--
MIKE DI NATALE: No, go ahead Lauren.
LAUREN KANE: OK, perfect, just a quick plug for Mike, that I think we all had independently, fantastic discussions. And the hope is to aggregate all of this great material and hopefully do a Scholarly Kitchen post. So kind of watch this space for more findings. And perhaps seeing yourself quoted.
MIKE DI NATALE: Thank you for that, Lauren. Yeah, I'll be reaching out to the facilitators, after this, collect notes, and figure out next steps internally at the committee level. But thanks again, everybody. I think this is going to end any second now. Just remember, the Get Involved Luncheon is June 9. And you should all consider joining an SSP committee, and experience a very rewarding volunteer. I don't know.
MIKE DI NATALE: You should be a member of a committee. It's the best that I've ever done in my life with SSP.
LAUREN KANE: Great pitch, Mike.
GREGG TAYLOR: It's been great.
MIKE DI NATALE: I'll talk to you soon.
AUDIENCE: Thanks Mike. [INTERPOSING VOICES]
GREGG TAYLOR: Thank so much for facilitating, Mike.
MIKE DI NATALE: Thank you. Thank you all.
SAI KONDA: See you Mike. This was good.
MIKE DI NATALE: See you, Sai. Thank you so much.
SAI KONDA: Take care.