Links on problems in academia
This is just a backup of a bookmark folder, will structure it later.
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[hide]Academic career
- Sandal leaves academia (Austrian article)
- Academia: Not for everyone many people who agreed that motivation, perseverance, and tenacity are key to success in science.
- 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?
- 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.
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