1. NPA 2016 recap: Advocacy Kyle Dolan PDA Seminar – 15 April 2016 @KyleDolan7

2. What I did at NPA 2016… Innovation In Action workshop: “Creating policy-focused regional symposia for grassroots advocacy” (co-presenters: Sarah Mazzilli, BU/Niki Athanasiadou, NYU) – http://bit.ly/1XzLhIg Poster: “Postdoctoral advocacy in action: Lessons from the Future of Research Chicago Symposium” – http://f1000research.com/posters/5-371

3. Current topics in scientific advocacy Size of the trainee population, esp. postdocs Career outcomes after PhD/postdoc training Funding crunch and effect on young investigators New models of publishing (OA, preprints)

4. How you can participate in reforming scientific training and culture Take the National Postdoc Survey! Follow/join an organization: – Future of Research (futureofresearch.org, @FORsymp)/FOR Chicago (futureofresearch.org/chicago, @FOR_Chicago) – Rescuing Biomedical Research (rescuingbiomedicalresearch.org, @resbiom) – ASAPbio (asapbio.org, #ASAPbio) – NPA Advocacy Committee (nationalpostdoc.org, @nationalpostdoc) – Scientific societies (e.g. ASCB COMPASS, @ASCBiology)

5. Tools for creating an advocacy campaign/symposium Logistics of organizing the FOR Symposium: https://thewinnower.com/papers/logistics-of- organizing-the-for-symposium NPA Postdoc Symposium Toolkit: http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/?postdoc_sy mposium Midwest Academy Strategy Chart: http://bit.ly/1YxY0eF