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Disrupt and demystify the unwritten rules of graduate school

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Fig. 1: Graduate school curriculum viewed as an iceberg.

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Acknowledgements

We thank A. Donaldson and C. Murphy, who helped us develop these discussions into a graduate-level discussion-based course that was offered for the first time in the autumn of 2020. The course focused on sharing experiences and developing strategies to navigate several unwritten rules of the hidden curriculum; course materials and metrics can be found at https://go.nature.com/3xSOCdH. We also thank L. Scholz, T. Pico and J. Green for helpful feedback on earlier versions of this Correspondence. M.Z. was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (EAR-2046957).

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    Jennifer Pensky, Christina Richardson, Araceli Serrano, Adam N. Price & Margaret Zimmer

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Pensky, J., Richardson, C., Serrano, A. et al. Disrupt and demystify the unwritten rules of graduate school. Nat. Geosci. 14, 538–539 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00799-w

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