by Jessica Polka | Apr 29, 2015 | FOR meetings
A reminder that our next FOR meeting will be this Thursday (April 30th) at 6pm at Tufts Medical in downtown Boston. The exact room is Jaharas 508, at 150 Harrison Avenue. Below is the agenda. Of note, we will be looking for volunteers to help with various FOR related...
by Gary McDowell | Apr 23, 2015 | Events & Networking
One of the desired outcomes from the Future of Research report was increased connectivity amongst early career researchers and we want to share more information about upcoming events and opportunities to connect. The Young Embryologist’s Network is an organization in...
by Gary McDowell | Apr 15, 2015 | Ideas for change, Postdoc population size, STEM shortage myth
Jessica Polka, Kristin Krukenberg and Gary McDowell have an article in today’s edition of Molecular Biology of the Cell, “A call for transparency in tracking student and postdoc career outcomes”. The article calls on the scientific community to...
by Gary McDowell | Apr 13, 2015 | Postdoc benefits
An article in a student newspaper at the University of Maryland, describing changes to postdoc benefits at UMD College Park, and a faculty letter in opposition to changes, led to a blog post in Science Careers that caused something of a sensation on social media...
by Gary McDowell | Apr 13, 2015 | Ideas for change, NIH, Surveys & Forums
The NIH is looking for comments on “policies and strategies to improve the impact and sustainability” of biomedical research. You can read about the background in the NIH “Rock Talk” blogpost by NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch, “Give Input on...