{"id":3824,"date":"2019-06-28T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2019-06-28T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T11:07:11","slug":"resource-of-the-week-a-provocative-take-on-work-life-balance-grad-school-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2019\/06\/28\/resource-of-the-week-a-provocative-take-on-work-life-balance-grad-school-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: A Provocative Take on Work-Life Balance &amp; Grad School Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3825\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/advice\/2019\/01\/18\/grad-school-activism-while-often-necessary-isnt-substitute-technical-proficiency#.XNEC_nW2vy4.email\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3825\" class=\" wp-image-3825 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Capture-3-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of article from InsideHigherEd.com; follow link for full text\" width=\"466\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Capture-3-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Capture-3-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Capture-3-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/05\/Capture-3.jpg 1127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of article from InsideHigherEd.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/advice\/2019\/01\/18\/grad-school-activism-while-often-necessary-isnt-substitute-technical-proficiency#.XNEC_nW2vy4.email\">thought-provoking take<\/a>\u00a0on the synergy between activism and technical proficiency from theoretical physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprescodweinstein.com\/\">Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein<\/a>. Spoiler alert, she writes, \u201cWhile often necessary, [activism] is not a substitute for technical proficiency.\u00a0Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is an American cosmologist, science writer and equality activist based at the University of New Hampshire. In addition to major work with NASA, FQXI and more, she maintains a valuable <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chanda\/decolonising-science-reading-list-339fb773d51f#.x0dvzakgw\">Decolonising Science Reading List<\/a>, which we will also post as a separate resource in this series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought-provoking take\u00a0on the synergy between activism and technical proficiency from theoretical physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. Spoiler alert, she writes, \u201cWhile often necessary, [activism] is not a substitute for technical proficiency.\u00a0Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is an American cosmologist, science writer and equality activist based at the University of New Hampshire. In addition to major work with NASA, FQXI and more, she maintains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,16],"tags":[26,36,43,53,81,86,87,113,114,115,117,120,148,149],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","tag-decolonizingstem","tag-inclusivescicomm","tag-advancing-science-communication","tag-blog-post","tag-handy-links","tag-inclusive-scicomm","tag-inspiration","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm","tag-scicomm-by-scientists","tag-tips","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}