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Rather than focusing on what members of underrepresented groups need to do to “adapt” to academic culture, we should be interrogating the system itself, which expects all of us to work excessively at the expense of our physical and mental health.
The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.
Many feel there is only one path to success and that any deviations will be catastrophic. My own academic path might seem to support this belief. On the surface, it appears quite linear: undergrad, grad student, postdoc, faculty member. But if you look deeper, you will see the series of roadblocks and revised plans that led me to where I am today.
How can reproducibility be funded and enforced? One solution is to make it a part of the requirements to complete a PhD.
As the supply of doctorate holders grows and their academic job prospects dwindle, schools take steps to help graduates find work beyond the academy.
Making proclamations about the scientific enterprise based on sparse employment and career data about junior scientists has become a common endeavor. But this approach is fundamentally flawed.
Two researchers today launch a game that captures this anarchic spirit. Board-game fans Caezar Al-Jassar, a postdoc at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and Kuly Heer, a clinical psychologist, have designed the card game Lab Wars to represent the scientific rat race, with extra sabotage.
Young scientists are expected to change country and jobs every few years on average to get a chance to progress their academic career. Mobility in science stems from a long tradition. It is favoured for bringing very enriching experiences. But post docs and their scientific work do not always benefit from mobility. Here, EuroScientist looks into how being on the move every few years affects the life of researchers and looks at ways of enhancing work/life balance.
Marketing is you telling others about yourself. Public relations is having someone else tell others about you.
Overtime pay for postdoctoral scientists is welcome — but could mean fewer positions.
NSF surveys generate what seem to be conflicting data on the status of those entering the scientific job market
Steph Wright wonders if it is better to speak your mind or to hold your tongue
Like junior doctors, early career biomedical researchers have an issue with contracts (or lack of them). So why don’t we strike too?
Being open about failure is one thing, but we must also look at how we define success, says Shahidha Bari
Graduate students struggling with the stresses of their work and lives can tap into multiple avenues of support.
By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.
A recent paper claims that the quality of researchers declines with age. Five senior scientists consider the data and how they’ve contributed through the years.
Female Ph.D.s in science and engineering earn 31 percent less than their male cohorts one year after graduation, according to a new study in American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. When controlling for the fact that women tend to earn degrees in fields that pay less than those in which more men earn degrees, the observed gap dropped to 11 percent. And the gap disappeared when controlling for whether the women were married and had children.
