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Changes in Canadian postdoc funding

Posted by , 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 ...

Too many postdocs and PhD students?

Posted by , 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 ...

The final stretch that tests every PhD Student 

Posted by , 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 ...

Bytes don't lie: How a hidden space broke my single-cell pipeline

Posted by , 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 ...

The Experiments We Never Run

Posted by , 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 ...

Assistant or Associate Professor of Cell Biology - University of Virginia School of Medicine

Posted by , 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 ...

I don’t belong here: Thoughts of a first-generation academic

Posted by , 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 ...

Revisiting metabolic fundamentals

Posted by , on 21 August 2026

In this post, Liliana Piñeros and Diego Sainz de la Maza report on the Workshop, 'Revisiting metabolic fundamentals'.

How does RNA keep the immune system in check? Two PDRA positions available in Renshaw Lab, Sheffield

Posted by , 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 ...

Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics

Posted by , 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 ...

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