by Gary McDowell | May 7, 2018 | News, Policy
*To help us take action, please read and sign this petition urging the Governor of Puerto Rico to keep the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics autonomous and independent.* The following is adapted from a Press Release by the American Statistical...
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 | 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 | 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...
by Gary McDowell | Nov 1, 2017 | Data, Grassroots movements, Ideas for change, News, Policy, Postdoc benefits, Resources
There is very little information available on how much postdocs are actually paid in the U.S. It is generally assumed that biomedical postdocs in particular are paid roughly in accordance with the NIH NRSA scale and indeed the National Postdoctoral...
