By nature.com Communities Team on 11 Jun 2010
Blogs Career issues were fairly prominent on Nature Network this week. Wilson Pok contributed an excellent post about the difficulties faced by PhD researchers pursuing postdoc positions, prompted by a recent careers seminar: Some speakers spoke of how they got to where they are now. One professor seemed to have just gotten lucky by being in the same lab at the same time as a professor who won a Nobel prize. Another speaker spoke of how unstable the postdoc life is, where you’re barely settled into one postion (often after having moved overseas) before you have to start working on … Read more
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