by Gary McDowell | Apr 25, 2018 | Events & Networking, Grassroots movements, Ideas for change, Policy
On May 1 at 1-2pm EST FoR will be co-hosting a Tweetchat on “Advocating for science,” where various science policy groups will discuss how to engage early career researchers in advocacy and will also provide resources. How do you get involved in...
by Gary McDowell | Mar 30, 2018 | Ideas for change, Policy, Resources
The American Society for Microbiology’s Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education has just released a special issue on Science Communication. FoR Board member Adriana Bankston and ED Gary McDowell have a publication included: “Changing the Culture of...
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 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 | 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...
