by Gary McDowell | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
On May 18th come to our session on developing career development resources, for both yourself and a national effort! Read more here!
by Gary McDowell | May 11, 2016 | Grassroots movements, Postdoc population size, Surveys & Forums
While problems facing the scientific workforce have lately been receiving increased attention, e.g. through efforts such as Rescuing Biomedical Research and meetings such as the Future of Research, data collection on the status of postdocs has been inadequate. In...
by Gary McDowell | May 11, 2016 | Ideas for change
iBiology, a collection of open-access videos about biology, has added new videos in its series about the future of the U.S. biomedical workforce. In “Creating Opportunities for Young Investigators,” Ron Daniels talks about the challenges facing...
by Gary McDowell | Apr 30, 2016 | FOR in the press
The team at Future of Research has been extremely busy over the last few months, and is pleased to announce that The Future of Research, Inc., or (FoR), is officially a MA-based non-profit organization and has received support for full-time activities through a...
by Gary McDowell | Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Future of Research is a U.S.-based organization designed to educate, advocate for and promote early career scientists. With the changing structure and distribution of funding in Canada, there is a worry that growth and sustainability of the biomedical...
by Gary McDowell | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
A very active discussion of interest to many members of the Future of Research community is how to shape the future of publishing in science. The #ASAPBio meeting, discussing ways to incentivize the use of pre-prints in biology research, is coming up at Howard Hughes...
by Gary McDowell | Jan 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) has issued a statement congratulating Future of Research on its recent award of “People of the Year” by Science Careers. You can read the statement here; many thanks to the NPA!
by Gary McDowell | Dec 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Every year Science Careers magazine names a Person of the Year in recognition of their contribution to early career researchers. Previous winners include Shirley Tilghman, Michael Teitelbaum and Paula Stephan. Science Careers has honored the activists and...
by Gary McDowell | Nov 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
The winning entries from the Future of Research Boston 2015 Hack Day held with the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology have been announced! Read here in this ASBMB blogpost. Congratulations to the winning teams from Washington University in St...
by Gary McDowell | Oct 9, 2015 | FOR in the press, FOR meetings, Non-academic careers
Future of Research Boston 2015 lead organizers Sarah Mazzilli and Gary McDowell have written a blogpost as part of the Cell Press “Careers Under the Microscope” series, “How Does the Number of Graduate Student and Postdoc Positions Affect YOUR Career...
