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Building Your Academic Presence

Academic Presence: Getting Started

  1. Have a professional (ish) profile photo. 
  2. Know your outreach goals.
  3. Write a short summary statement about your research in 2-3 sentences or less.
  4. Assume you will share your work: Carefully organize your files and versions: papers, chapters, code, presentations.

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