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‘Is the PI a jerk?’ Key questions to ask when you’re moving lab

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How to Be a Successful Mentor in a New Lab

I think the biggest surprises for me were in understanding how my PI was responding to the pressures that were put on her. It was kind of a hard thing to adjust to mentorship style that you didn't necessarily expect. Find a way to give feedback to someone who is becoming a mentor for the first time. There needs to be a mechanism in place and that's not something that's the PI's job alone or it's the mentee's job alone. Both sides need to make it work.

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