I happened to zoom with a highly capable young lady who's working on her post-doctoral research in Singapore and have found quite a few things to share ka.
1. Singapore has loosened up to stay with COVID19. Earlier on, they were strict with everything like closing the lab once there was a visitor who later was notified to be infected. Right now, even when one in the lab got the virus, it's business as usual.
I feel because the people are more disciplined and responsible for themselves and others too na ka.
Why do we tend to doubt our own people and what could we do to inculcate discipline? We've been on the wrong track for long mai ka?
2. Singapore is good to have opportunities to get monetary benefits for younger ones to save up....enough to come back to Thailand to spend the rest of her life.
How could we use our unique 'sabai box' to create sabai space for work and life in constructive and productive ways?
3. She found that many countries care too much for publications when the real value of the research findings could be far more than just that. She's changed her mind from originally wishing to be a scientist to become a science communicator. Can't agree more with her and it's needed in our social media era to get/send short messages that could cause misunderstanding and confusion, especially in times of natural disaster and pandemic....and when metaverse is part of our daily living world tool.
We discussed quite a bit about rankings and 'what to get from the race besides numbers of publications and academic titles'.
Being in the ranking race could be useful if we can answer our 'why' more deeply!
Science communication can become one big area for a few new jobs na ka. Thinking of a Fulbright alum who's now studying to be a medical communicator who says there's a high demand for this career track ka.
Any comment mai ka?
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