by Gary McDowell | May 22, 2017 | Data, Ideas for change, Non-academic careers, Policy, Postdoc population size, Resources
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist, Adriana Bankston, who moderated this plenary session at the 2017 NPA meeting. Postdoctoral scholars make up a large segment of the biomedical workforce, and tracking their career trajectories is imperative...
by Gary McDowell | May 4, 2017 | Non-academic careers, Personal perspectives, Resources
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist Adriana Bankston. On February 14, 2017, Dr. Joerg Schlatterer gave a talk to the Career Research Advancement Focused Training (CRAFT) seminar series at the University of Louisville entitled “The Most Important...
by Gary McDowell | May 3, 2017 | Ideas for change, Non-academic careers
This is a guest post from Samantha Jones, a PhD student in the Biomedical Sciences program at the University of California San Diego. Procuring a tenure-track faculty position in academic scientific research is becoming an elusive dream for an ever-increasing number...
by Gary McDowell | May 1, 2017 | Non-academic careers, Resources
This article was originally published on the Careers blog and is shared here with the permission from the American Society for Microbiology. The link to the original article is found here. This article was written by policy activist Adriana Bankston. Many trainees are...
by Gary McDowell | Feb 28, 2017 | Events & Networking, FOR meetings, Ideas for change, Non-academic careers, Resources
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist, Adriana Bankston. Introduction Career development for junior scientists remains one of the most important issues in the biomedical research enterprise. Since the perceived notion is that the role of...
by Gary McDowell | Jan 3, 2017 | Diversity in science, FOR in the press, Ideas for change, Non-academic careers, Postdoc population size, Resources
One of the key challenges in our work pushing for reform of the academic system and the scientific enterprise is convincing those resistant to change that there is a problem. Part of the issue in dealing with this is the debate about the quality/quantity of data...