by Gary McDowell | May 10, 2018 | Data, Ideas for change, NIH, Policy, Postdoc benefits, Postdoc population size
As part of our effort to make individual postdoc salaries in the U.S. more transparent, we have been carrying out Freedom of Information requests at public institutions to have a standard, albeit blunt, instrument for gathering data on postdoctoral researchers. You...
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 | 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...
