Sentences with phrase «many junior scientists»

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.

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.

Better Recognition for Multidisciplinary Research by Elisabeth Pain, 17 July 2014 Junior scientists who work on large collaborative projects spanning several disciplines need to make sure they can illustrate their personal successes to support their career advancement.

«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.

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.

In particular, there is a «lack of money for junior scientists, especially those who are coming from longer [stays] abroad and wanting to establish their own research group,» he says.

Making proclamations about the scientific enterprise based on sparse employment and career data about junior scientists has become a common endeavor.

Perfect for rock - crazy kids and junior scientists who love to explore.

Willis is also working with more junior scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, encouraging them to give public lectures and interviews about their research.

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.»

In particular, «[t] he calls for greater transparency in career pathways, funding streams for junior scientists, support for staff scientist positions, and improving the research environment are all things that ring very true in the US too.»

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.»

The most common problem junior scientists encounter is exclusion from primary authorship.

If universities want to recruit highly qualified scientists, they need to develop dual - career policies, all interviewed junior scientists said.

This list is distilled from various sources with the needs of junior scientists in mind but is by no means exhaustive.

With such an obvious disparity — widely acknowledged in a burgeoning mass of surveys, publications, and speeches from all sides of the scientific community, from junior scientists to top levels of government — the question is «What can be done to remedy the situation?»

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.

Does writing a blog help junior scientists» career prospects, or harm them?

«Even when I was a junior scientist, I sat at the table with senior leadership and talked about my data, and they listened.»

«The situation of young families can be especially problematic given the long road (from undergraduate to graduate to postdoc to junior scientist) that certainly extends through a woman's fertile years,» says a postdoc, who is also a parent of a young child.

Mentoring is, above all, a relationship of support and trust between a senior and a junior scientist, and the experience can be tremendously rewarding for both, professionally and personally.

She worked with Ganz for 3 years as a junior scientist, learning about cancer and chronic disease and charting a course in the relatively new field of psycho - oncology before applying for her own research funding.

Neither should junior scientists submit a sensational, ground - breaking idea, at least until Registered Reports become more commonplace, he recommends.

««Underground» networks of women pass information about Geoff to junior scientists in an attempt to keep them safe.»

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.

As federal sequestration and other disruptions of government funding have forced academic labs to cut their staffs, some junior scientists are reportedly turning to adjunct teaching to pay their bills.

The majority of Science's Next Wave readers are junior scientists.

Patrick Vogt is a junior scientist and a physicist by training.

The council has, for example, published a guide that outlines what they believe constitutes «Good Research Practice» and MRC team leaders are required to include this as part of the research training of junior scientists.

Junior scientists will be able to offer more recent knowledge of the job market.

In repelling these individuals from biomedical research, we reduce the quality of the junior scientist pool and ultimately the entire scientific enterprise as junior scientists ascend the career ladder.

Devoting less than 10 % of this increase to the salaries of junior scientists would be sufficient to remedy the problem.

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.

The idea is to provide junior scientists with the opportunity to become independent and the capital to pursue risky research, says Georg Scholl, head of communications at the Humboldt Foundation.

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.

The kudos attached to each of these differs considerably in degree and it is usually the junior scientists associated with a project that suffer.

Candace Hassall, a member of the Wellcome Trust's Career Development Group, outlined her approach to giving career advice to junior scientists.

Next Wave: So are there really any opportunities for junior scientists to participate in this kind of research, despite the expense?

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.

So important and unorthodox a finding can be especially challenging for a junior scientist.

Some of its awards are reserved for junior scientists.

These studies have permitted a firsthand look at how academic drug discovery relates to the training and experience gained as a junior scientist.

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.

It's a bit like a medieval guild in which the junior scientists are not kids any more.

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.

The conference is open to scientists of all levels and therefore provides an excellent opportunity for PhD students and junior scientists to attend a high level conference that showcases the latest developments of high throughput methodologies, which can be used in basic science.

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.

The prize is intended to motivate especially gifted junior scientists and researchers to pursue a future university or research career.