by Gary McDowell | Mar 21, 2018 | Data, Postdoc benefits, Resources
There is very little information available on how much postdocs are actually paid in the U.S., beyond data on institutional salary policies gathered by the National Postdoctoral Association. Following on from recent discussions about postdoc salaries changing as a...
by Gary McDowell | Mar 20, 2018 | Data, Ideas for change, NIH, Policy
The increasing age of principal investigators funded on R01-type* mechanisms by the NIH. (A) Age distribution of PIs in 1980 and 2016. (B) % PIs plotted against year. In a preprint deposited in PeerJ Preprints in January, members of Rescuing Biomedical...
by Gary McDowell | Mar 2, 2018 | Data, Policy, Postdoc benefits, Resources
You may have been following along with our ongoing postdoc salary efforts, such as our page and preprint reporting postdoc salary data*. If so, one of the limitations you will have noticed is that we are only able to get data from public institutions in a standard...
by Gary McDowell | Mar 2, 2018 | Newsletter
It’s been a quiet few weeks from us as we continue to wrap up a number of things. The report from the National Academies on the future of the next generation of the biomedical workforce, which BoD President Jessica Polka, Advisory Board member Paula Stephan and...
by Gary McDowell | Feb 2, 2018 | Data, Resources
Information on the biomedical labor market is necessary both for the formulation of policies that ensure its sustainable future as well as for informing individual career decisions. A recent announcement in Science by a coalition of universities pledged to...
