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13 Apr 2018 | 08:29 GMT

Postdoctoral fellowships in the US: top tips for international trainees

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Career paths, Postdoc, US

Postdoctoral fellowships in the US: top tips for international trainees

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  • mentoring
  • mobility
  • postdoctoral training
  • US

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06 Mar 2018 | 14:00 GMT

Coming to the US for a postdoc? – If I had known, part II

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Postdoc, Research, US

Coming to the US for a postdoc? – If I had known, part II

Like many other European researchers, I moved to the US for my postdoc.  While some stay in the US, and others return to Europe after their postdocs, I’m almost certain that anyone who has followed this path will have encountered a few shocks along the way. Choosing the right fit for your postdoctoral training is just as important to choosing the right lab for your PhD. Based on my experiences, here is a list of the things that I think are worth checking in advance to avoid thinking “I wish I had known” too often.  Read more

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  • benefits
  • career development
  • elena blanco-suarez
  • fellowship
  • finances
  • funding
  • health care
  • lab policy
  • lab size
  • moving country
  • postdoc
  • research
  • US

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05 Jan 2018 | 08:00 GMT

US postdocs need more support from their institutions, says advocacy group

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Postdoc, Uncategorized, US

US postdocs need more support from their institutions, says advocacy group

US academic institutions continue to enhance postdoctoral researcher experiences, but there is room for significant improvement, according to a 3 January report  from the NPA in Rockville, Maryland.  Read more

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  • career track
  • compensation
  • diversity
  • health care
  • institution
  • National Postdoctoral Association
  • parental leave
  • postdoc
  • stipend
  • university
  • US

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11 Dec 2017 | 13:00 GMT

The urgent need to recognize and value academic labor

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Blog, Funding, In the news, PhD, Research, US

The urgent need to recognize and value academic labor

Recently the House of Representatives essentially voted to destroy graduate education in the United States. By taxing tuition waivers as income — and therefore treating their taxable income as two to three times the amount graduate students are actually paid — the Republican tax bill would effectively put graduate study outside of the reach of all but the independently wealthy. While the Senate version of the tax bill does not include this provision, it is far from certain what the final bill after the reconciliation process will look like.  Read more

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  • academia
  • emmerich davies
  • employment
  • funding
  • future
  • graduate
  • industry
  • j wesley boyd
  • security
  • student finances
  • tax
  • tuition fees
  • tuition waivers
  • universities
  • US

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08 Dec 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Changes to the U.S. tax code will harm graduate student mobility and career prospects

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Blog, Funding, In the news, Research, US

Changes to the U.S. tax code will harm graduate student mobility and career prospects

A recent editorial in Nature described the harm that newly proposed changes to the United States tax code will have on graduate student finances. If passed, these regulations — ostensibly designed to simplify tax calculations — will eliminate benefits previously given to students. Of particular harm to graduate students and the scientific world would be the elimination of the tax-free status of tuition waivers.  Read more

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  • academia
  • Aliyah Weinstein
  • employment
  • funding
  • future
  • industry
  • PhD
  • security
  • STEM
  • student finances
  • tax
  • tuition fees
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  • university
  • US

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13 Nov 2017 | 08:00 GMT

Boyfriends and husbands may put female researchers at a hiring disadvantage

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Career paths, Careers articles, Faculty, In the news, news, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research, US

Boyfriends and husbands may put female researchers at a hiring disadvantage

Female candidates’ – but not male candidates’ — relationship status was a primary consideration in hiring committees’ discussions and decisions, according to study co-author Lauren Rivera, an associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She found that committee members assumed that heterosexual female candidates whose partners or husbands held academic or high-status jobs could not relocate for the job, and excluded them from offers when the committee had viable male or unpartnered female options. Yet, she says, committees — whose members included women — rarely discussed male applicants’ relationship status and assumed that those candidates’ partners or wives would be able to move for the position if an offer were made.  Read more

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  • dsicrimination
  • female
  • hiring
  • junior faculty
  • married
  • paul smaglik
  • sexism
  • universities
  • US

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25 Sep 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Different “Me”s open up a new world on a personal and scientific level

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Career paths, Communication, Diversity, Mobility, Perspectives, Research, Scientists on the move, US

Different “Me”s open up a new world on a personal and scientific level

A light grey room is filled with 23 grey desks, scattered in pens and books. In one corner sits a refrigerator packed with snacks. Next to it is a rice cooker. The walls are covered in pictures of fun lab memories. Amidst the clutter, some students joke and laugh; chat with a professor about their experimental procedures; analyze data on their laptops and unconsciously wrinkle their brows.  Read more

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  • back to
  • better scientist
  • China
  • culture
  • culture differences
  • culture shock
  • different me
  • haruka yuminaga
  • internationalism
  • japan
  • japanese science
  • neuroscience
  • returning
  • science
  • science from different cultures
  • science in different cities
  • science internationally
  • scientist
  • self awareness
  • US
  • us to japan
  • USA

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23 Jun 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Q&A: Progress for Congress

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, In the news, Mobility, People Management, Research, Scientists on the move, Social media, US

Q&A: Progress for Congress

Thomas Prigg is a brain cell circuitry researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. Now he’s using his science skills to fuel his campaign for Congress in 2018. He talks to Nikki Forrester.  Read more

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  • america
  • congress
  • democrats
  • economic
  • neuroscience
  • nicole forrester
  • nikki forrester
  • politics
  • republicans
  • research
  • scientific issues
  • senate
  • social media
  • thomas prigg
  • US
  • workers

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02 May 2017 | 10:09 GMT

Academic housekeeping: Women’s work?

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Admin, CV, Diversity, Faculty, Research, Tenure, US

Academic housekeeping: Women's work?

The most striking gender difference is found in the level of service to one’s university, particularly in institutional ‘housekeeping’ chores including faculty governance, recruitment, student admissions, evaluation and promotion.  Read more

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  • academia
  • disscrimination
  • gender
  • gender bias
  • service
  • US

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01 May 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Out of the lab and onto the streets

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Collaboration, Communication, Diversity, Events, In the news, Research, Scientists on the move, Social media, US

Out of the lab and onto the streets

April 22 began with a drizzly ride on rented bikes through the streets of southeast D.C. to the Washington monument. I was accompanied by Dylan Jones, an outdoor recreation and environmental writer from West Virginia. “I typically opt for escaping civilization on Earth Day,” Jones said, “but today I decided to go straight into the heart of it.” We weaved through roads littered with people in rain shells and lab coats, carrying vibrant signs and rainbow umbrellas.  Read more

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  • capitol
  • climate
  • dc
  • demonstation
  • engagement
  • global
  • international
  • march for science
  • nicole forrester
  • nikki forrester
  • outreach
  • politics
  • public
  • trump
  • US
  • Washington DC

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