Not exact matches
According to the The International Federation
of Biologists, there are more than 3 million biolgical
scientists globally who rely on the 5 laws
of Darwinian evolution for their
jobs every single
day.
When her appointment came to a close, a colleague rolled his chair over to her one
day and suggested her for a data
scientist job with the Stanford - based Data Coordination Center
of the ENCODE (Encyclopedia
of DNA Elements) Consortium, an international collaboration
of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes
of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.
«The
day - to -
day is fantastic because you get to talk to
scientists, and that's my favourite part
of the
job,» she says.
Scientists who attempt to make their careers mirror a typical 9:00 to 5:00
day job will never find the golden profile
of Alfred Nobel hanging around their necks, he says.
These programs look like a good deal for
scientists seeking scarce
jobs in the industry, offering a benefit that's increasingly rare these
days in the private sector — on - the -
job training — along with a long - term audition in front
of hiring managers at desirable employers.
A group
of leading
scientists marked the launch by submitting their own favourite jokes, but my advice to the participants would be: Don't give up the
day job.
One
of the direst consequences
of the dwindling
job market has been the increasing lengths
of time many
scientists now spend languishing in what were originally intended as temporary training positions, with no certainty
of one
day landing a coveted permanent position in academia.
[Editor's note: our index
of monthly feature indexes is, I think, the best available introduction to the kinds
of jobs scientists are doing these
days.]
Feedback suspects that this is partly because Russian and American weapons
scientists have a lot in common these
days — starting with the lack
of job security that stems from their new friendship.
In her
day job, Kim is a
scientist with NIWA and the University
of Otago in New Zealand, with a focus on marine carbon chemistry.
So a major part
of the
job of the exoplanet modeling team (and many other exoplanet
scientists) is to prepare for that
day.
But the quantity
of emails for the electrical engineer (me in my
day job, FWIW), the marketing professional, the english professor, the home manager, and the climate
scientist (Tom Wigley) are all based on estimates from the people involved.
While one
of API's main publicity claims is the oil industry's support for 9.2 million
jobs, this inflated figure «includes not only legitimate direct and indirect
jobs but more remote «induced»
jobs that the API has listed as including everything from
day - care workers to valets to rocket
scientists.»
They don't have
day jobs so they can put all their efforts into misinforming and miscommunicating climate science to the general public, whereas the climate
scientists have
day jobs and [managing publicity] actually isn't one
of them.
On the other hand, «low - risk» occupations like
scientists, pilots, and accountants will have lower rates because the nature
of their
jobs is to be very detail - oriented, and their work
days are more structured and stable.
Follow me as I escape into this creative world
of fabrics, patterns and sewing, far away from graphs and formulas at my
day job as a Research
Scientist.