Many established scientists look back on their postdoc wistfully as a time of unparallelled focus on research. Yet the postdoc now too often gives way to the ‘permadoc’. Postdocs may languish in that position for more than a decade, sometimes … Continue reading
Are you a student or postdoc in Neuroscience? Applications are now open for the 2016 Gordon Research Seminar on Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology – Disruptive New Technologies in Studying Neural Development, Plasticity, and Diseases. This Seminar is associated with the … Continue reading
This week Nature has a number of editorials, commentaries, and news features examining graduate education and postdoctoral training. They are all extremely interesting and make TONS of good points! My favorite, in part because I am living it, is a … Continue reading
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[tweet https://twitter.com/calvinmok/status/615290785429237760] I had an awesome week at UCLA for the GSA’s 2015 C. elegans International Meeting, hence so few posts recently. There was amazing science, including terrific talks and workshops (and my poster… obviously), AND the worm community knows how to have … Continue reading
Check out this amazing Nature piece by Kendall Powell – “The Future of the Postdoc.” Powell spells out the grim position of the current postdoc, but also discusses a number of options to help solve the postdoc crisis! These highly skilled … Continue reading
Summarized in Science Careers, a new report on the postdoctoral training system covers familiar ground. As we’ve mentioned before (here), the current set-up for training postdocs is incredibly flawed. The report, out in the U.S. National Acadamies press, highlights similar … Continue reading
STEM postdoc researchers are highly trained, but for what? By Gary McDowell, Tufts University The STEM fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics supposedly suffer from a shortage of graduates. Conventional wisdom says there’s no one for employers to hire … Continue reading
From Nature, an editorial on the plight of postdocs both in the USA and in the UK. This has been a recurring theme on this blog, but the hyper-competitive atmosphere and low job security makes the current postdoc situation unlike years … Continue reading
That’s right, it’s Friday of National Postdoc Appreciation Week and I baked some delicious cookies for my fellow postdocs! Obviously the cookies are also for the entire lab, as proof to the undergrads, graduate students, technicians etc of how great … Continue reading
