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Posted by Linda, on 5 January 2011
But you know he’ll always keep movin’ You know he’s never gonna stop movin’ Cause he’s rollin’, he’s a rollin’ stone ~ Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty (Link to Song ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 23 December 2010
This is the first in a series of posts about careers outside of academic research. See here for more information. To start the series on alternative careers, I’m going to ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 21 December 2010
Some of the most popular posts on the Node have been those about career prospects for young scientists. The category pages for job ads and career posts are among the ...Posted by Vivian Siegel, on 14 December 2010
It’s been a busy time for me at ASCB, held this year in Philadelphia. As a long standing member of the Women in Cell Biology (WICB) committee, I have been ...Posted by Nishal Patel, on 11 November 2010
I’m Nish, a 3rd year PhD student in Kate Storey’s lab at the University of Dundee. Over the past year, I’ve been involved in running PiCLS, the PhD association here ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 17 August 2010
Some Canadian postdocs are awaiting the next academic year with bated breath: will they earn less than they did during their PhD, or twice as much as their colleagues? Canada’s ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 13 August 2010
Many of you are probably familiar with the web comic Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD), which chronicles the lives of graduate students and perceptively points out some of the peculiarities ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 23 July 2010
There was a nice piece on the Naturejobs site this week, written by postdoc Katherine Sixt. She describes how she started to realize that not every postdoc will eventually become ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 20 July 2010
If you’re annoyed by the unconvincing lab work on shows like CSI, and would like to show the world what real scientists are like, why not make a film yourself? ...Posted by Ben Steventon, on 23 June 2010
May 10th 2010 marked the second anniversary of a very young but promising scientific meeting, the Young Embryologist Meeting (YEM). This meeting was organised by a group of PhD students ...