Sentences with phrase «postdoctoral holding pattern»

It's a unique field in that a large proportion of graduates end up in faculty posts — the jobs graduate school prepares them for — and yet its low postdoc numbers suggest that most graduates are placed in real jobs soon after receiving their Ph.D. s; few mathematicians, it seems, get stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.

In a companion essay, he explores the implications of the arguments advanced by Teitelbaum and Butz, asking what it will take to create the demand necessary to employ the increasing numbers of young scientists that are already stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.

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If left unchecked, wrote Susan Gerbi of Brown University; Howard Garrison of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB); and John P. Perkins, now deceased, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the «perception that the postdoctoral period is a holding pattern» and not the route to a faculty career could drive young scientists away from academe and threaten a crucial source of skilled personnel for the academic research enterprise.

«If you just treat the postdoc as a holding pattern, it's probably a recipe for failure,» the National Postdoctoral Association's Reed asserts.