Difference between revisions of "Links on problems in academia"

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This is just a backup of a bookmark folder, will structure it later.

Academic career

• http://derstandard.at/1302745617904/Aufsehen-Ein-Jung-Chemiker-haut-den-Hut-drauf
• http://www.postdocsforum.com/2011/02/23/leaving-academia/comment-page-1/#comment-19975
• http://www.benchfly.com/blog/lessons-from-a-recovering-postdoc/
• http://occamstypewriter.org/mindthegap/2010/12/09/in-which-i-question-my-own-sell-by-date/
• http://occamstypewriter.org/notranting/2010/12/10/imperial-measures-but-measuring-for-what/
• http://www.science20.com/alpha_meme/and_another_one_throws_towel_and_leaves_science-76487
• http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110302/full/471007a.html
• http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201000003/abstract
• http://politicsofthehap.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/farewell-early-20s-farewell-academia/
• http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_02_04/caredit.a1100011
• http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_03_11/caredit.a1100021
• http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html
• http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_03_18/science.opms.r1100101
• http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/25/164228/Why-Science-Is-a-Lousy-Career-Choice?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4db5ae138d8b42c5%2C0
• http://www.isabel-dietrich.de/2011/03/sayonara-academia-i-get-life.html
• http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7343/full/472259b.html
• http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472276a.html
• http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education?page=full
• http://escapethetower.wordpress.com/

Ph.D.

• http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2011/110728/full/nj7357-533a.html

Finding a job after academia

• http://worstprofessorever.com/2011/02/16/guest-post-how-to-get-a-job-after-youve-left-grad-school/
• http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/05/18/soliciting-advice-non-academic-careers-for-ph-d-s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CosmicVarianceBlog+%28Cosmic+Variance%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
• http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/06/02/unsolicited-advice-non-academic-careers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CosmicVarianceBlog+%28Cosmic+Variance%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
• http://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/kayk2/life_science_undergrad_to_bioengineering_phd/c2jakpa
• http://insingulo.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-silico.html

Academia workplace

• http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/
• http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/06/0410206/Which-Grad-Students-Are-the-Most-Miserable?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
• http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100929/full/467516a.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/science/16prasher.html?_r=1
• http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477020a.html

Fraud and retraction

• http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/how-scientific-fraud-is-like-ponzi-finance/247885/
• http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/full/478026a.html

Inefficiencies

• http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101013/full/467775a.html?ref=nf

Italy

• http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2011/04/08/news/netturbini_con_laurea-14651595/?ref=HREC1-4

Open science

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/22/open-science-shared-research-internet