Sam Schwarzkopf
sampendu.bsky.social
Kiwified neuroscientist & perception researcher at the School of Optometry & Vision Science at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Lab website: sampendu.net #UltimaDragon
👤 Joined on 13 September 2023
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Don't just list my research interests from my staff page as things you are interested in. Apart from being something of an AI giveaway, if you had actually read my work you would know that these are long out-of-date but, as I have learned, impossible to change.
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4) Country (and hemisphere) specificity. Understand before you email that different countries have different ways of doing graduate & doctoral study. Do some research on even the particularities of the university itself that the academic you're contacting works at. Oh, and when the academic year is!
Show Post3) Effusive praise. Many cultures around the world (including Aotearoa New Zealand) don't react well to effusive praise of us. It doesn't feed our egos, it just makes us feel uncomfortable. Particularly if we are early career & just getting ourselves established, so our achievements are more modest.
Show Post2) Don't use a form email. I know you're tempted to have a stock email into which you plug a) our name, b) our topic area related to your field, and c) a publication of ours in that topic. But it's REALLY apparent to us when you're doing so (particularly if the plugged-in bits are a different font).
Show PostSo, advice for potential PhD students re emailing potential supervisors to connect with them. 1) Do not use AI. Like seriously, don't. It's a Dunning-Kruger issue ... your email might look good to you, but for those of us in our fields AND getting a million of these, the generic language is OBVIOUS
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