Making a Career Choice: Follow in Your Own Footsteps
Association for Psychological Science,
During my tenure as APS President, I’ve called for broadening the way we train psychological scientists to prepare them for…
During my tenure as APS President, I’ve called for broadening the way we train psychological scientists to prepare them for…
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-18-007 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NIH Blueprint Diversity…
The challenging funding environment may not be all doom and gloom for science
Funding Opportunity RFA-NS-17-009 from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The purpose of the NIH Blueprint Diversity…
0000-0002-4493-1136Sometimes working in academia feels like being a gymnast at the Olympics. Not because we’re tumbling through…
The second Boston Symposium on the Future of Research will be held from 22-24 October. This blog has been contributed by guest…
Young researchers should take the time to educate themselves on STEM career-related statistics. Contributor Robert…
STEM postdoc researchers are highly trained, but for what? By Gary McDowell, Tufts University The STEM fields of Science…
Vor einiger Zeit habe ich folgenden Satz gelesen: “Eine Karriere in der Wissenschaft ist kein Sprint, sondern ein Marathon”.
Career ambitions are the most popular reasons for taking on a postdoc, followed closely by a love for science. OK, no surprises…
This is the second of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each…
This is the second of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. …
This is the first of four posts relating to the Future of Research symposium which was announced in a previous blog post. Each…
telescoper:Interesting piece that argues that the recent growth in STEM PhD and postdocs is not sustainable. Originally posted…
In one week, INNGE will celebrate the third year of its existence at the 11th meeting of the International Ecology Congress (INTE…
For a week and a half, I was a minor internet celebrity! Pictures by imgur user…
When I started graduate school, I knew I didn’t want to do the tenure track professor thing. To be successful, I’d have to work…
Over the last few months, I’ve noticed a growing number of reports about declining opportunities and increasing pressure for…
At August 20th’s SoNYC discussion, which this month is held in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences, we’re going…
For most graduate students in physics, a research focused career ranks more attractive than teaching, government work, or…
The road to a PhD is long and hard, and it’s natural that students’ goals for the future would change over the course of their…
Almost everyone who goes to grad school in physics does so thinking that they will one become a tenured professor at a large…
One of the most oft cited quotes on twitter is drawn from this passage from the abstract of Henry Sauermann and Michael Roach’s…
Is Cosmology in Shambles? « Galileo's Pendulum I'll fill in more about each of these studies shortly, but note in both cases…