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* [http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science Women in Science] ''Even a public schoolteacher actually does better than a scientist.''
 
* [http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science Women in Science] ''Even a public schoolteacher actually does better than a scientist.''
 
* [http://escapethetower.wordpress.com/ Escape the Tower] Resources, links, and musings about the many problems with the academic system, and how to escape it.
 
* [http://escapethetower.wordpress.com/ Escape the Tower] Resources, links, and musings about the many problems with the academic system, and how to escape it.
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* [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7343/full/472259b.html Fix the Ph.D.] ''Widening concerns about dismal job prospects are dissuading the brightest candidates from the PhD route.''
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* [http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472276a.html Education: The PhD factory] ''in much of the world, science PhD graduates may never get a chance to take full advantage of their qualifications.''
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* http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2011/110728/full/nj7357-533a.html
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* [http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223 The Disposable Academic] ''Why doing a Ph.D. is a waste of time''
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* [http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education?page=full  Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education] ''Going to grad school’s a suicide mission.''
  
 
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* [http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_03_11/caredit.a1100021 Reentering Academia - A Success Story] ''I knew that I could be a reasonable scientist given the chance. I eventually managed to convince people here in Oxford that I could be taken back on as a postdoc.''
 
* [http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_03_11/caredit.a1100021 Reentering Academia - A Success Story] ''I knew that I could be a reasonable scientist given the chance. I eventually managed to convince people here in Oxford that I could be taken back on as a postdoc.''
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* [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7343/full/472259b.html Fix the Ph.D.] ''Widening concerns about dismal job prospects are dissuading the brightest candidates from the PhD route.''
 
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* [http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110420/full/472276a.html Education: The PhD factory] ''in much of the world, science PhD graduates may never get a chance to take full advantage of their qualifications.''
 
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* http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2011/110728/full/nj7357-533a.html
 
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* [http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223 The Disposable Academic] ''Why doing a Ph.D. is a waste of time''
 
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* [http://www.thenation.com/article/160410/faulty-towers-crisis-higher-education?page=full  Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education] ''Going to grad school’s a suicide mission.''
 
  
  
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* http://insingulo.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-silico.html
 
* http://insingulo.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-silico.html
  
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* http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/
 
* 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://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

Revision as of 17:50, 10 November 2011

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

Academic career

Generic

Ph.D.

Postdocs

  • Sandal leaves academia (Austrian article)
  • Lessons from a recovering postdoc And it’s never an easy decision for those who do. It’s one that is filled with doubt and questions: Is it just because this experiment isn’t working? Am I a bad scientist? Was my PI simply having a bad day? Am I just not committed enough? Am I cut out for this? What will my family think? What about my grad school mentors? Will this kill my career?
  • In which I question my own sell-by date Age discrimination became illegal in the EU in October 2006, but science cleverly gets around this problem by putting restrictions into their fellowship eligibility criteria.
  • Imperial measures – but measuring for what? “The answer may well be that Imperial is a very good place to be a high-flying academic, but not a very good one to be an average academic.
  • And Another One Throws The Towel And Leaves Science This is all straight hustle, straight business, straight ripping each other off, being mean, supporting ‘friends’ even if they are wrong, pretending to be something better, elitism, exploitation, …
  • Give postdocs a career, not empty promises Fresh blood in a lab is useful, but so too are experienced people who can train others more efficiently, who are in touch with the latest techniques and who have first-hand knowledge of the lab's carefully amassed treasure-trove of materials.
  • Recovering From Postdoc Mistakes a large lab run by a famous scientist doesn't guarantee direct value for the postdoc, as she found out the hard way
  • Sayonara academia, I get a life I don't see meaning in my research anymore.

Coming back

  • Reentering Academia - A Success Story I knew that I could be a reasonable scientist given the chance. I eventually managed to convince people here in Oxford that I could be taken back on as a postdoc.


Finding a job after academia

Academia as a workplace

Fraud and retraction

Inefficiencies

Italy

Open science

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