#Postdocs

Has @NIH released any official guidance on reappointing #postdocs? Many postdocs are officially on one-year contracts. With lots of unis announcing hiring freezes for FY21, there is a lot of

Dr. Hannah L. Harrison 🐟

fishpeopleplace

#postdoc scholars are a valuable part of any academic community. They bring years of knowledge and experience. Their work is an important part of any university or department's success. But,

I'm sorry but this year it should be called "Lobby Universities, Funders and Governments To Actually Give a Damn About Postdocs Week" here's why... While we all

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

In this new piece, I present "Antidote to toxic principal investigators". We must protect our next generation scientists from the principal investigators who abuse their powers and mistreat their trainees.

Ross "FollowtheScience" Levine

This week is #posdocappreciation week. Lots of love being shared by scientists for trainees across the globe. My two cents. 1. The postdocs I have worked alongside when I was

Grad students, postdocs, staff, faculty, deans:What are your ideas for mechanisms to hold mentors accountable for behavior towards students/postdocs?I’m curating a list & will work with students to advocate practical

Dr Kay Guccione

When I started being a Researcher Developer in 2010 my role involved organising training for postdocs (the visible 30%) and also advocating for postdocs (obscured work, but ~70% of my

Susanna L Harris

If you want to know why I'm so bent out of shape about universities reopening:Grad students' health and rights are almost always left out of guidelines, leaving more room for

Scientists who don't drink alcohol: How do you deal with the oftentimes booze-fueled nature of academic conferences, and ensure that you're not missing out on important networking opportunities that may

ANS Students Australasian Neuroscience Society

Introducing Dr @juliette_cheyne, a Research Fellow from @AucklandUni (1/) #ansstudents #womeninscience @juliette_cheyne’s secrets to work-life balance: I have worked part-time since my daughter was born in 2018 with varying hours

CarlHarrisonPhD

Reading through the feedback from @ECRCoffeeBreak has been heartbreaking. Students are suffering severely working at home, they need informal, unstructured peer to peer support ie what happens in the office.

I'm excited to announce I've accepted an offer from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (OB area; Gies college of business)! I feel like there is often little transparency about the

It is always regally hard to be a postdoc. It is a period of academic limbo, where the stakes are high and rejections are common and sting hard. It is

Leslie Vosshall PhD

Meanwhile just received a fund-raising email from Bruce Stillman @CSHL saying how hard they are working:“Our scientists are conducting their important experiments related to cancer, brain and other research in

Tomorrow is my postdoc-versary! Five years ago, I started my postdoc in the @RohatgiLab. Thankfully, I still love the research. A bit surprising because, after 7 yrs in grad school,

I'm an immigrant.I came first to work at Bell Labs on a J-1 visa, because I thought I'd stay only a year or two.But I stayed longer and got an