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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 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 Cherene de Bruyn, on 4 September 2026
The recent deluge of Substack and Medium articles, promising strategies and frameworks to work effectively and to complete tasks with intentionality, would have some to believe that the ‘P’ in PhD stands for “productivity” and not Philosophy. As if these neatly ...Posted by Anjaney Pandey, on 3 September 2026
If you are a bioinformatician, you have probably come across this situation. You’re deep into a single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, preparing your object for downstream analysis. All that’s left is ...Posted by Alyssa Paparella, on 1 September 2026
Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the right experiment, watch it ...Posted by Zoe Chavkin, on 1 September 2026
The Department of Cell Biology at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine invites applications for two tenure-eligible faculty positions on the Academic Investigator (AI) track with preference for ...Posted by Stefanie Williams, on 25 August 2026
As a university student working towards my bachelor’s degree, I didn’t even know what it would mean to add “Dr.” to my name. Six months into my postdoc, I regularly ...Posted by Diego Sainz de la Maza, on 21 August 2026
In this post, Liliana Piñeros and Diego Sainz de la Maza report on the Workshop, 'Revisiting metabolic fundamentals'.Posted by Iwan Evans, on 20 August 2026
Two Research Associate Posts – click here to see advert A new interdisciplinary programme at the University of Sheffield is investigating how the RNA-binding protein ELAVL1 shapes neutrophil behaviour ...Posted by Sharon Amacher, on 19 August 2026
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics The Ohio State University Position Overview The Department of Molecular Genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University invites applications ...