The phrase
"junior scientists" refers to young or less experienced researchers or scientists who are still learning and developing their skills and knowledge in their respective field of study.
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The lessons that she learned as a PhD student have also helped her to mentor
junior scientists in her group properly, so they could become more productive and support her company's mission.
For
junior scientists who are also passionate bloggers — who are willing to put their careers at risk in order to write what's on their minds — all is not lost.
He is interested in advocating for and
with junior scientists, to help them navigate the scientific enterprise and promote their voices in driving changes in science.
With accumulating experience and success — enhanced by good mentoring along the way — you will reach a point in your career when
more junior scientists could benefit from your insight, too.
In the past, the traditional technical career path progressed
from junior scientist to department manager.
In this series, we use our own experiences, combined with insights from the literature, to
provide junior scientists with strategies for increasing research productivity, recognition, and impact.
Neither should
junior scientists submit a sensational, ground - breaking idea, at least until Registered Reports become more commonplace, he recommends.
If universities want to recruit highly qualified scientists, they need to develop dual - career policies, all
interviewed junior scientists said.
Nine will be selected on the basis of academic excellence and ability to communicate, and the
top junior scientist will receive a cash prize of # 1500.
The prize is intended to motivate especially
gifted junior scientists and researchers to pursue a future university or research career.
My experience from the academic side is that
many junior scientists from a variety of fields would be eager to participate in something like this.
Civil courts, by definition, are content to accept evidence that is 49 % likely to be wrong, almost ten times as unreliable as the
most junior scientist's first paper.
It is aimed at PhD - level researchers, though
more junior scientists or recent graduates will be considered in exceptional cases.
Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Abraham Palmer Departments of Human Genetics, and Psychiatry / Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, USA Recombination happens: my personal journey towards unorthodoxy and self realization
Among those whose voices are included in the book are Katharine Graham, Bob Woodward, Tom Brokaw, James D. Watson, Celera head Craig Venter, Human Genome Sciences head William Haseltine, and cancer researcher Judah Folkman, as well
as junior scientists and journalists.
The TRTH program offers a rigorous, yearlong training and mentoring experience directed at
helping junior scientists build successful careers in translational hematologic research.
Although various programs to address the problems plaguing early - career biomedical researchers are already underway, including some through NIH, the legislation
tells junior scientists that lawmakers have heard their concerns and want to take part in the effort to bring about change.
Gary McDowell is the Executive Director of Future of Research, a non-profit organization that promotes grassroots advocacy
among junior scientists to advance improvements and reform of the scientific enterprise.
F. Merlin Bumpus Junior Investigator Awards are presented at the annual Cleveland Clinic Research Day to recognize outstanding contributions submitted
by junior scientists in training (Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students) for presentation at the event.
So there remains a pressure
on junior scientists to submit their work to high impact journals rather than to one with the [Registered Reports] option,» Schwarzkopf agrees.
Willis is also working with more
junior scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, encouraging them to give public lectures and interviews about their research.
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to
rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.
«A lack of diversity at the faculty level is an enormous problem in biomedical science, so I applaud HHMI's efforts to
support junior scientists from underrepresented backgrounds,» writes Jessica Polka, president of the Future of Research board of directors, in an email to Science Careers.
After almost 3 years as a staff scientist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in the lab where she began as a postdoc, she relishes her scientific freedom and the opportunity to
mentor junior scientists.
Making proclamations about the scientific enterprise based on sparse employment and career data
about junior scientists has become a common endeavor.
As Gary McDowell, executive director of the San Francisco, California - based grassroots organization Future of Research, writes in an email to Science Careers, «[t] he Declaration certainly covers many key issues faced by today's
junior scientists very well.»
The idea was transferred from the United States,
where junior scientists first have a temporary professorship, resulting in a permanent position following a successful evaluation.
«There may be structural inequities in the way we've built the system that
increase junior scientists» sense of organizational injustice.»
It is true that
junior scientists bringing claims of scientific misconduct against more senior scientists often face an uphill battle, and you must consider this when deciding whether to go ahead with your own charges.
Gary McDowell, a member of the founding group of Boston - area activists (and a Science Careers Working Life author), will assume the «full - time role
assisting junior scientists in grassroots efforts to change science policy» thanks to a 2 - year, $ 300,000 grant from the Open Philanthropy Project, FoR announced on 30 April.
McDowell foresees two groups working in the organization: «one that is effecting advocacy and communication
between junior scientists and the rest of the community; and another that is working with data about the system and driving evidence - based policy changes.»
«The grant will fund setting up infrastructure [for efforts to] connect groups and
junior scientists around the country with our group and each other; helping local groups organize meetings and workshops by providing full - time logistical support; and beginning to look through the data that exists about the scientific enterprise [so that] we can... advocate for change,» McDowell tells Science Careers by email.
For example, a
relatively junior scientist told me about her efforts to get more done during the workday to save time for family and friends — along the lines of what manager Susan would recommend.
These positive developments in neuroscience in Singapore make for exciting news for young graduates, postdocs, and
junior scientists contemplating a research and development career in this fast growing field.
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund launched the Diversity in Science program in 2012 to advance the careers of underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows by enhancing the postdoctoral training and experience of underrepresented
minority junior scientists.
She worked on creating and fundraising for the Career Momentum Award for postdocs and research scientists and guided the organization of the 3rd
Annual Junior Scientist retreat in 2016.
She advocated for enhanced funding at the American Association for Cancer Research Rally for Medical Research Hill Day with Moffitt's Government Relations Task Force and locally fundraised for the
inaugural Junior Scientist Miles for Moffitt team.