by Gary McDowell | Aug 14, 2017 | Diversity in science, Events & Networking, FOR meetings, Ideas for change
Among the many roles that scientists play, mentoring younger scientists is one which researchers are rarely trained for. In the current STEM research environment, where lack of funding is but one of the systemic issues faced by young scientists, the roles,...
by Gary McDowell | Aug 3, 2017 | Data, Ideas for change, Postdoc population size
This is a post by Executive Director Gary McDowell. In a preprint posted on bioRxiv, Chris Pickett (of Rescuing Biomedical Research), Adriana Bankston (a policy activist at FoR) and myself argue that the NSF’s Survey of Graduate Students and...
