The future of the postdoc
There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way.
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Science doesn't only need sprinters
Reasons for removing time-bound criteria from MRC fellowship applications to help give people the time they need.
Will they stay or will they go?
International graduate students and their decisions to stay or leave the U.S. upon graduation.
An astonishingly small number of elite graduate schools produce the academics who get jobs
An astonishingly small number of elite graduate schools produce the academics who get jobs
An astonishingly small number of elite universities produce an overwhelming number of professors.
Congrats young scientists, you face the worst research funding in 50 years
In an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Dr. Francis Collins, head of NIH, offered a familiar warning to lawmakers considering future appropriations for scientific research.
Breaking the Silence
The Unionization of Postdoctoral Workers at the University of California.
Addressing systemic problems in the biomedical research enterprise: An Update
Last spring, the four of us published an essay in PNAS in which we described the severe problems now faced by scientists working in the US biomedical research system, recommending several steps that might be taken to improve the situation...
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In April 2014, four leaders of the scientific establishment issued
Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks
A quantitative understanding of faculty hiring as a system is lacking. Our study suggests that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound social inequality.
Analysis shows that young scientists lead the way on fresh ideas
Analysis of millions of papers finds that junior biomedical researchers tend to work on more innovative topics than their senior colleagues do.
Is 'academic citizenship' under strain?
A wide range of essential under-the-radar tasks sustain academic culture, but who will perform them in an increasingly careerist academy?
Public engagement: hidden costs for research careers?
Some early career scholars feel there is not enough support for academics who reach out, say Richard Watermeyer and Jamie Lewis.
No solutions for a decade-old problem
Another set of ideas for fixing the funding crisis for young researchers.
How to give the next generation of scholars a career boost
Holly Else examines European efforts to make academic career paths less challenging to navigate
The not-quite-stated, awful truth
For all but a small percentage of aspiring researchers, doing a postdoc at a university is a lousy idea because it will neither result in an academic job nor otherwise advance one’s career.
A generation at risk: young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce
A generation at risk: young investigators and the future of the biomedical workforce
On the delay in young scientists obtaining NIH grants.
Pure, stupid luck
A light-hearted opinion piece about the arbitrariness of academic success.
Freezing out young scientists
Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.
Harsh reality
Two reports highlight the plight of postdocs on both sides of the pond aiming for academia and how it might threathen research integrety.
Wellcome Trust wants research dreams to flourish
Director Jeremy Farrar on new plans to support more young scientists and ambitious projects, large and small.
Aging Researchers and Funding Trends
The proportion of federal research funding going to investigators older than 65 was greater than that going to researchers younger than 35, even if most Nobel recipients made their discoveries before they were 40 years old.
On the changing role of the Postdoc and why publishers should care
It seems that if there’s a market that we ought to be thinking about, it’s postdocs. Guest Post by Phill Jones, Head of Publisher Outreach for Digital Science.
Nobel prizewinner John O'Keefe urges UK to nurture young scientists
Joint winner says move to UK was important to his success and fears impact of government migration controls and funding freeze.
Young, brilliant and underfunded
"More people over 65 are funded by research grants than those under 35."
A congressman's plan to make NIH grantees younger
Congressman wants to order the NIH to bring down the average age at which new investigators receive their first grant by 4 years within a decade.
250 great minds
The University of Leeds is seeking to recruit up to 250 exceptional early career academics to tenure track equivalent Academic Fellowships over the next three years.
The impact of researcher development
A collection of papers based on workshops at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, 3-4th September 2013, Manchester, UK
Are we producing too few or too many science and technology grads?
According to a new report, the answer is "both."
Should I become a professor? Success rate 3 %
10% of all postdocs stay in academia but nearly 80% hope to pursue an academic career
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