by Gary McDowell | Jun 21, 2016 | Events & Networking, FOR meetings, Grassroots movements
If you are in the San Francisco area, please come along to the Manylabs Summer Open House event on Wednesday June 22nd, 6-8 pm! Manylabs is an open science skunkworks, in which FoR Executive Director Gary McDowell has just arrived to start a 6-month residency...
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 | Mar 2, 2015 | Grassroots movements, Ideas for change
Today UCSF is hosting a forum: “CHANGING THE POSTDOC : If you could change ONE thing to improve the postdoc experience at UCSF, what would it be?” It is at 3:30-5:00 pm Pacific time, 6:30-8:00 pm EST. You can watch the lecture live or later on-demand here....
by Gary McDowell | Dec 9, 2014 | Grassroots movements, Ideas for change
Voices of a generation: young scientists must be seen and heard By David Riglar, Harvard University and Douglas Hilton, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Postdoctoral scientists – postdocs – are the engines of biomedical research. As early career researchers, they...
