There is a new NPR piece, “A Glut Of Ph.Ds Means Long Odds Of Getting Jobs“, which discusses the Future of Research group and interviews Kristin Krukenberg, a senior organizer of the Future of Symposium meeting, and Gary McDowell.
There is also a new Nature Scitables blog post on the ConferenceCast blog, written by Sarah Mazzilli, “The Organization and Execution of a Postdoc-Run Symposium“. Sarah was in charge of logistics for the organization of the meeting at Boston University and in this piece she discusses the logistical aspects of the Future of Research Symposium in Boston, 2014.