by Gary McDowell | Mar 29, 2018 | Data, Events & Networking, Ideas for change, News, NIH, Policy, Webinar
On April 12th, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report “Breaking Through” will be released and publicly discussed in DC and over livestream at 1.30pm EST. FoR President Jessica Polka and ED Gary McDowell, and FoR advisory board...
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...
by Gary McDowell | Jan 19, 2018 | Data, News, Non-academic careers, Policy, Resources, STEM shortage myth
For decades, institutions have been asked in various reports to track and report out on their PhD and postdoc alumnae career outcomes. A number of recent efforts by a variety of stakeholders in the last year suggest that 2018 may be the year when this comes to...
by Gary McDowell | Jan 16, 2018 | News
You can sign up to receive the full monthly newsletter here Postdoc salaries in the U.S. The image above was kindly given to us by Drew Doering of UW-Madison. Some of the data is currently being updated e.g. University of Illinois has now sent corrected...
by Gary McDowell | Jan 5, 2018 | Data, Grad school curriculum, Rigor and Reproducibility
This is a guest post by Adriana Bankston, who participated in the pilot phase of this course along with fellow Future of Research board member, Calvin Ho. Training in research data management is critical for early career scientists. Proper data...
by Gary McDowell | Dec 14, 2017 | Data, Diversity in science, Ideas for change, News, Non-academic careers, Policy, Postdoc population size, Resources
You can find a PDF copy of the statement below here. 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. Despite repeated...
