Hello Young DUNE!
I'm Jeremy Wolcott, Tufts Univ. postdoc. I'm honored to have been nominated for the Spokesperson Liaison (SL) role of Young DUNE. I see this as a really valuable role within the collaboration: it's essential that our collaboration management view the early-career members of the collaboration not just as ``resources'' (read: labor pool), but instead as fully-rounded human beings as well as important intellectual and scientific contributors to the experiment. Having occupied convener roles in the NOvA experiment for a few years now, I'm familiar with these tensions from both ends of the telescope, and as SL I would continue the tradition of firm advocacy on behalf of YD members established by the previous SL officers. The Spokesperson Liaison is also meant to serve as a professional development coordinator for YD, and as the events of the past year have shown us, we all have a lot of opportunities for growth---and that this should extend beyond "career advancement" into arenas like better understanding and confronting the structural and identity-based violence baked into our academic culture or protecting our mental health, just to name a couple. I'd like for us to continue exploring those ideas as a group. I don't particularly enjoy the limelight myself, but I'm especially interested in empowering the members of YD so that everyone feels comfortable expressing their concerns (as well as their victories!) in a way that they are confident they'll be heard, understood, and meaningfully engaged by the collaboration.
Thanks for your consideration!
I'm Jeremy Wolcott, Tufts Univ. postdoc. I'm honored to have been nominated for the Spokesperson Liaison (SL) role of Young DUNE. I see this as a really valuable role within the collaboration: it's essential that our collaboration management view the early-career members of the collaboration not just as ``resources'' (read: labor pool), but instead as fully-rounded human beings as well as important intellectual and scientific contributors to the experiment. Having occupied convener roles in the NOvA experiment for a few years now, I'm familiar with these tensions from both ends of the telescope, and as SL I would continue the tradition of firm advocacy on behalf of YD members established by the previous SL officers. The Spokesperson Liaison is also meant to serve as a professional development coordinator for YD, and as the events of the past year have shown us, we all have a lot of opportunities for growth---and that this should extend beyond "career advancement" into arenas like better understanding and confronting the structural and identity-based violence baked into our academic culture or protecting our mental health, just to name a couple. I'd like for us to continue exploring those ideas as a group. I don't particularly enjoy the limelight myself, but I'm especially interested in empowering the members of YD so that everyone feels comfortable expressing their concerns (as well as their victories!) in a way that they are confident they'll be heard, understood, and meaningfully engaged by the collaboration.
Thanks for your consideration!