Most of the career advice
for aspiring scientists revolves around publishing and funding and there's no question that being successful and prolific in these key areas is essential to academic success.
Researchers need not spend their time writing grant proposals or depend primarily on the cheap labor
of aspiring scientists who will soon be looking to launch their own careers.
It is a longing never mentioned, I might add, by the generation
of aspiring scientists and not at all the same as a desire simply for more time on earth.
This study was funded by Morris Animal Foundation through its Veterinary Student Scholars program, which provides grant support for
aspiring scientists in the field of veterinary medicine.
After the event, Science Careers caught up with Clarke and asked her to
advise aspiring scientists on how to decide where to study for a Ph.D., in line with the report's conclusions.
There's probably no need to point out the relevance to careers — just utter the word «stress,» and
most aspiring scientists will understand — but to make the point explicitly, one of the study populations was medical residents, who share many characteristics with science postdocs.
The discussion focused on the Ph.D. career crisis more as a structural issue of «overproduction» than as a calamity for tens of thousands of talented and
dedicated aspiring scientists who have invested crucial years of their lives in the hope of taking their place among those advancing the nation's scientific enterprise.
Pursuing such activities, and balancing them with their formal training,
allows aspiring scientists to gain skills they wouldn't develop otherwise and expands their professional horizons.
Yet, they continue to strongly influence admissions committees — probably to the detriment of
individual aspiring scientists who, despite their brilliance, may not look good on paper, and of the entire scientific enterprise.
She
warns aspiring scientists to avoid including grumpy or aggressive dissertation committee members — for all the obvious reasons — and cautions diligence in being painstakingly exact in recording and interpreting data.
Traditionally, scientists have been trained using a craft model, under
which aspiring scientists learn to become fully fledged scientists through years of apprenticeship under a master craftsman and further exposure to all aspects of research during their postdoc years, Walsh and Lee write in their paper.
This will
aid aspiring scientists in «figur [ing] out what they want to do with their passion for science [despite] a system that can be hostile to aspirations other than faculty jobs at R1 institutions,» McDowell continues.
Aspiring scientist Ayla Kaltenecker, Greg Kaltenecker's 10 - year - old daughter, uses calipers to measure the length of this white - backed vulture's head.
She would ask informed questions or make penetrating comments, pressing to know what could be done to improve the chances of
aspiring scientists half a century or more younger than she.
Independence also comes with a hefty list of tasks and responsibilities that
few aspiring scientists receive formal training for.
Prior to being named Gilliam fellows, each student participated in HHMI's Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP), an initiative that nurtures the scientific curiosity, imagination, and dreams of some of this nation's most
talented aspiring scientists.
Several PhD students and one MSc student from Ghana have received SKA SA bursaries to pursue further education in various fields of astronomy and engineering while the Royal Society has awarded funding in collaboration with Leeds University to train two PhDs and 60
young aspiring scientists in the field of astrophysics.
That's Julia Rosen, who successfully made the sometimes tricky transition
from aspiring scientist to freelance science writer.
Standardized methods that are presumed to be fair measures of merit or ability must be reexamined with a new perspective that takes into account the diverse backgrounds
of aspiring scientists.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The idea that «hypercompetition» and lack of opportunity
for aspiring scientists have made the biomedical research enterprise «unsustainable» has gained increasing acceptance since the publication of an influential 2014 article.
The AAAS - Andrew M. Sessler Fund for Science, Education, and Human Rights honors Dr. Sessler's important legacy by supporting a variety of activities aimed at bridging the scientific, engineering and human rights communities; engaging young and
aspiring scientists and engineers in human rights; and increasing the capacity of human rights practitioners to integrate scientific methods and technologies in their work.
Management, project planning, grantsmanship, and teaching rank high on the fields considered useful — even essential — for
aspiring scientists.
Hughes, Burroughs - Wellcome Course Launches Initiative in Career - Skills Education 1 July 2005 Management, project planning, grantsmanship, and teaching rank high on the fields considered useful — even essential — for
aspiring scientists.
A Perfect Time for Babies 25 November 2013 Jacquiline Romero Jacquiline Romero, who is now a postdoc, says that graduate school is the best time for
an aspiring scientist to have a baby.
Are
you an aspiring scientist with quantitative chops and a strong desire for a faculty career?
Nutt seems an ideal role model for
aspiring scientist - advocates, standing up for rational, practical, science - driven approaches to policy in place of the much more common moralistic, ideology - driven approach.
Graduate school and subsequent professional endeavors present many challenges, in general, to
aspiring scientists.
Jacquiline Romero, who is now a postdoc, says that graduate school is the best time for
an aspiring scientist to have a baby
In addition, a sudden upturn can send a false message of hope to
aspiring scientists that the good times will last into the foreseeable future.»
With this combination of skills in hand,
an aspiring scientist can identify novel patterns in nature that challenge current dogma and employ creative experimental designs to translate such observations into new insights for the advancement of science.
Aspiring scientists are equipped to take advantage of good information, suggests a U.S. National Academies conference report on international research collaborations.»
The AAAS - Andrew M. Sessler Fund for Science, Education, and Human Rights continues to honor Dr. Sessler's important legacy by supporting a variety of activities aimed at bridging the scientific, engineering and human rights communities; engaging young and
aspiring scientists and engineers in human rights; and increasing the capacity of human rights practitioners to integrate scientific methods and technologies in their work.
This month saw the launch of two initiatives in the U.K. that are creating new training and research opportunities for
aspiring scientists.
What is the take - home message for
aspiring scientists?