by Gary McDowell | May 28, 2017 | Diversity in science, Ideas for change, Policy
This post originally appeared on the GCC Carpe Careers blog published on the Inside Higher Ed website on May 1, 2017. Re-posting with permission from Inside Higher Ed. Adriana Bankston provides advice for how research scientists can positively influence the personal...
by Gary McDowell | May 26, 2017 | Ideas for change
This post was originally published on the Genetics Society of America (GSA) blog ‘Genes to Genomes’ on May 15, 2017. Re-posting with permission from GSA. This post was co-written by Future of Research activists Adriana Bankston and Sonia Hall. Postdocs often lack the...
by Gary McDowell | May 24, 2017 | Data, Diversity in science, Ideas for change, NIH, Policy, Postdoc population size
This is a guest post by Future of Research policy activist, Adriana Bankston, who moderated this plenary session at the 2017 NPA meeting. In a recent post, we summarized the talk given by Dr. Nancy Calvin-Naylor in one of the plenary sessions at the 2017...
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 15, 2017 | Events & Networking, Grassroots movements, Ideas for change, Surveys & Forums
On May 16th the 2nd Homo scientificus europaeus Meeting, “A pan-European Scientists’ Community: Promoting an Open Science in an Open World”, will be taking place in Barcelona, Spain. Its aim is to foster the creation of a pan-European community...