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Professors

Dr. Maya Amichay — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:24:29 +0000

How are they perceived…

Careers In Traditional Academia: Outlook Bleak

Dr. Maya Amichay — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:42:57 +0000

Why the odds are against you getting a tenure-track position By: Meghan Mott As postdocs, we toiled away our early 20s in graduate school working 50+ hours a week in research labs and teaching as a necessary rite of passage on the career path to academia. We justified our meager stipends, long hours, and general [...]

The PhD’s Job Crisis

Dr. Maya Amichay — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:00:41 +0000

By: Sofia Rasmussen As consequence of the “Great Recession,” states across the US have been mired in debt and forced to make dramatic cuts to higher education. As funding for higher education constricts, fewer tenure track academic positions for recent graduates are opening as universities increasingly turn to economically cheaper adjunct and part-time professors to [...]

Creating a Medium For Sharing Research Experiences

Dr. Maya Amichay — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:00:11 +0000

By: Gautham N. Journal of Errology was launched last month with an aim of providing a medium for researchers to share experiences learned through those unpublished futile hypotheses, errors, iterations, negative results, false starts and other original stumbles that are part of a larger successful research in biological sciences. Still in its beta stage, this [...]

This Is What A Scientist Looks Like

Dr. Maya Amichay — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:34:33 +0000

Change the perception of who and what a scientist is or isn’t. This Is What A Scientist Looks Like is a project developed by Allie Wilkinson to challenge the stereotypical perception of a scientist. There is no single clear-cut path to becoming a scientist. A scientist can come from any background. There is no cookie-cutter [...]

You spend hours working on your research, so why not get credit for all of it?

Dr. Maya Amichay — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:30:03 +0000

By: Mark Hahnel Today sees the launch of a new website from figshare which allows you to publish all of your research in seconds. Your data becomes citable, searchable and discoverable – helping you to increase the impact of your research. figshare grew out of the frustrations of a stem cell researcher, Mark Hahnel, who [...]

A Whole New Meaning…

Dr. Maya Amichay — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:59:26 +0000

If you have funny comics or images you’d like to share please email thepostdocsforum [at] gmail.com and we just might post them!

The Ups and Downs of Lab Research Work

Dr. Maya Amichay — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:19:57 +0000

“The Ph.Diddy is on the scene” – Animation of life in the biotech lab Arnold Young, (aka the Ph.Diddy) is a biotech Ph.D candidate. Arnold was an A+ student, and is now ready to take over the world of science! He soon discovers how life in the lab is filled with drive and [...]

Science Quote of the Week #99

Dr. Maya Amichay — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:20:15 +0000

This week’s quote comes from Kenneth Boulding. “DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.”

Science Quote of the Week #98

Dr. Maya Amichay — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:20:06 +0000

This week’s quote comes from Robert L. Park. “The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.”