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 | Feb 20, 2017 | Ideas for change
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist, Adriana Bankston. There are “internal problems rooted in the culture of science,” write Arturo Casadevall and Ferric C. Fang in a 2017 post for The Baltimore Sun entitled “Is science in crisis?” Arturo...
by Gary McDowell | Feb 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
The first Future of Research Vancouver meeting will be held on February 20th, 2017, at the SFU Harbour Centre, bringing together early-career researchers from across British Columbia to discuss challenges facing the future of Canadian science. There have...
by Gary McDowell | Feb 15, 2017 | Grassroots movements, Ideas for change, Postdoc benefits, Resources
In the wake of the injunction against updates to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which affected postdoctoral researchers, a number of institutions initially indicating that they would raise salaries to comply with the new minimum have reversed their plans to do...
by Gary McDowell | Feb 14, 2017 | Personal perspectives
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist, Adriana Bankston. Growing up in Romania in a family of scientists was unusual in the 80s and 90s. For my parents, both scientists, doing research without many grant opportunities or lab supplies was...
