Sentences with phrase «lab chiefs»

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Lab chiefs who have never worked outside of academe generally lack the information, contacts, and inclination to help their postdocs enter the many fields that, unlike university research, offer good opportunities.
The second category of lab chiefs is fellows.
Many lab chiefs feel that getting involved in outside activities will lower productivity and hurt a postdoc?s chance for a job later on.
While in the past many people, especially postdocs, came into work and were eventually paid, this time, «the impression I have is that you will have to show you're on some list» to enter a building, one lab chief said.
One means of accomplishing that would be to include lab chiefs» safety records among the materials submitted in grant proposals (and weighed in funding decisions), alongside currently required materials such as human subjects and vertebrate - care documentation.
Although many lab chiefs are humane and generous mentors, and most are at least fair and reasonable, some, as anguished tales make plain, comport themselves as workplace tyrants whose workers fear that they would jeopardize their professional futures — and often their right to remain in the United States — by asserting their workplace rights.
Change will come, Kaufman believes, only when a «culture of safety» akin to that widely cultivated in industry permeates universities and when lab chiefs are held responsible for everyone knowing and following accepted safety practices.
However, in April, Nest Labs chief executive Tony Fadell wrote in a blog post that it has found in regular testing that the smoke detector could misconstrue other gestures as a hand wave and potentially turn off the alarm in the event of a real fire or carbon monoxide events.
«It's absolutely beautiful,» Rocket Lab Chief Executive Peter Beck said in an interview shortly after the launch.
Chainstone Labs chief executive Bruce Fenton, for instance, called it the «Most important announcement at Money 20/20».
Sidewalk Labs chief policy officer Rit Aggarwala told the crowd the company is «not interested in selling personal information» and will ultimately present a plan that will need to be approved by the government before proceeding.
A set of what economists call «perverse incentives» encourages lab chiefs and institutions to take on more trainees in good times and submit more grant proposals in bad ones.
The nearly inescapable conclusion is that only real change in the incentives that motivate lab chiefs will change their behavior.
That is true, no doubt, from the perspective of those who have long benefited from the sacrifices of graduate students and postdocs — among them administrators, policymakers, and well - funded lab chiefs.
Whatever happens to appropriations, it's clear that nothing in the stimulus will fix the basic problem with the scientific job market: the pyramid of self - replicating lab chiefs constantly producing young scientists unable to start their own careers.
Major challenges include convincing lab chiefs that higher paid staff scientists are as good an investment of scarce grant dollars as lower paid postdocs or graduate students.
Scientists across the country disagree about whether the law should hold lab chiefs personally and legally responsible for the consequences of poor safety practices.
That's certainly the outcome that another experienced observer, an NIH intramural lab chief we'll call Beth S. Dadoc, expects to see.
This ambiguous ending will likely undermine incentives for university lab chiefs to focus on safety, informed opinion argues.
His former lab chief «used his powerful position to impose his will and cover up some exciting results of mine, which could have moved the field of cancer research forward.»
Among the favored researchers will be several dozen just a few years beyond their Ph.D. s. Most will have traditional — although well - paid — postdoc appointments under eminent or soon - to - be-eminent lab chiefs.
An investigation has found a UConn lab chief guilty of falsifying data.
As happened during the glory days of those other famed institutions, Rubin foresees lab chiefs joining postdocs, grad students, and staff scientists at the bench, unhampered by the need to teach, see to administrative tasks, or write proposals.
Sangji's lab chief claimed that she had received it but could produce no proof.
«It's very important that all mentors or lab chiefs make sure that everybody is keeping the lab notebook according to the data retention standards of their institution, and that they're looking at raw data at regular intervals.»
The first of these developments is a lawsuit brought by Pedro Canovas, a former postdoc at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School in Worcester, against the school and his erstwhile lab chief, Dario Altieri, a professor of cancer biology, for alleged «breach of contract,... wrongful discharge,... retaliation,... and prior restraint on publications.»
Still others left the decision to departments or individual lab chiefs.
Much of the academic scientific community, however, agreed with UCLA and, amid expressions of shock and sorrow, argued that Harran had done nothing that lab chiefs across the country do not do every day.
Today's funding situation — «the worst I've seen in over 30 years,» Gerbi says — further aggravates the situation, causing lab chiefs to lay off staff and some labs to close.
Because labs are «semiautonomous groups within the university,» Tanyildiz writes in her paper, lab chiefs generally exercise considerable independence in staffing them.
Given the requirements of the NSF grant process and today's tight funding, it is possible that lab chiefs desperate for an edge in the grants competition could turn postdoc services into a new arena in which to try to outshine rivals.
During a recent interview with Epicenter Bitcoin, RSK Labs Chief Scientist Sergio Lerner explained how the two - way peg, which allows users to transfer bitcoins between blockchains, will work with bitcoin and Rootstock.
He advocates 30 mandatory hours of ethics training for all researchers, including lab chiefs, rather than current requirements that cover only trainees.
The smokers banter about a lab chief who breathes down the necks of his assistants so closely that working for him is barely tolerable.
In that case, the lab chief, chemist Patrick Harran, and UC faced criminal charges for safety violations related to the fire.
After watching the trainee become more and more dispirited by repetitive experiments, the lab chief gently told her, «You know, my dear, there's more to life than this» — words that liberated the young scientist to pursue totally different, and ultimately very satisfying, endeavors.
Mentoring and PI Productivity 7 November 2003 Both the quantity of publications produced and the quality of mentoring provided — especially to postdocs — should count in the evaluation of a lab chief's suitability for future funding.
What happens to the lab chiefs who hired them?
It also left unanswered a key legal question: Are lab chiefs (along with universities) responsible for fatal safety violations?
The year after earning her Ph.D., she moved from Hopkins to the National Institute of Mental Health to work as a lab chief, eventually becoming the only female branch chief at the time.
So when UW dismissed longtime staff researcher Mercedes Perez - Melgosa after her lab chief, genome sciences professor Deborah «Debbie» Nickerson, concluded that Perez - Melgosa had «changed data,» as Nickerson would testify in a May 2015 court trial, Perez - Melgosa was devastated.
Both the quantity of publications produced and the quality of mentoring provided — especially to postdocs — should count in the evaluation of a lab chief's suitability for future funding
However, neither Owen's lab chief nor the university did so, and they are unlikely to be unique in this crucial omission.
Few things focus the attention of the nation's lab chiefs, department chairs, and university administrators more intensely than the risk of losing federal grant dollars.
A lab chief we'll call Manny Grants had promised to help him get the prestigious publications needed for a shot at a faculty post — and maybe even permanent residence in the United States.
The lab chief used his power, Otto says, to prevent their publication.
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