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Women and the MBA Session
About a year ago, I blogged at the CIHR Science to Business program – a funding mechanism “designed to encourage individuals with PhDs in a health related field to pursue an MBA.” Well, being one of those people with a … Continue reading
“Questionable” Projects: Does the public have the answer?
The other day, this article from Live Science was brought to our attention: “Republicans Call for Public Scrutiny of NSF grants” http://www.livescience.com/culture/etc/101201-republicans-call-for-public-scrutiny-nsf.html From the article: Republican Majority Leader-Elect Eric Cantor (R-VA) is asking citizens to choose their own cuts to … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Policy
Tagged funding, Government, Peer Review, Policy, research funding, science and society
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Nice Gals Finish Last: Sexist Reference Letters or Skewed Value Systems?
Although an identical number of women get a PhD in the life sciences, only 15-20% of tenured positions are secured by women ~Frank Gannon, EMBO 2007 This is a frightening statistic, and I’m not convinced it’s gotten much better since … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Financial
Tagged Canada, education, EMBO, EMBO Fellowships, fellowship, funding, Graduate Student, money, PDF, PhD, Post Doc, scholarship, Science, Sexist reference letters, Training, University, Women in Science
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Student Loans
Student loans. They are sort of the dirty little secret among grad students. Not something people generally like to talk about, because having student loans means you weren’t good enough to have won the big scholarships that the other grad … Continue reading
So you want to be a public servant when you grow up…
I have written before about how scientific information gets (poorly) communicated to the Government in entries about the routes of information acquisition and about getting scientists to understand how policy works. In my mind, one of the best ways of … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Jobs, Policy, So you want to be a...
Tagged business, Canada, Canada Revenue Agencies, Career Sense, civil service, degrees, education, Employment, Environment Canada, Government, Graduate Student, Health Canada, Jobs, life choices, money, non-academic jobs, Policy, Post Secondary Recruitment, postacademic jobs, public service, Public Service Commission of Canada, Recruitment of Policy Leaders, Science, science and society, science communication, science literacy, Training, transferrable skills, University, University Affairs
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Why does anyone think science is a good job?
“A science researcher at Harvard now earns an annual salary that is only 1/50th the price of a family-sized house in Cambridge, a fact that may not be lost on an intelligent female Harvard undergraduate choosing a career.” (Source) The … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Jobs
Tagged Canada, Canada Excellence Research Chairs, CERC, Employment, life choices, money, non-academic jobs, postacademic jobs
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Let the Discussions Begin!
— Quick Hit: A big welcome to our second guest blogger Marianne Stanford, current chair of the CAPS group. As a follow up to Carl’s excellent article on the CRA’s response to the CAPS letter on Post Doc status. This … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, General, Jobs, Policy
Tagged Budget 2010, Canada, CAPS, CIHR, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, money, PDF, PhD, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, taxes, Training, University, UofT PDA
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The CRA response to CAPS: Implications and where should we go from here?
QUICK HIT: The Black Hole team is thrilled to welcome its first guest blogger to the site. Carl Wonders is a post doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and one of the founding members of the UofT Post Doc … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, General, Jobs, Policy
Tagged Budget 2010, Canada, CAPS, employee status, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Jim Flaherty, money, PDF, Policy, Post Doc, scholarship, taxes, University, UofT PDA
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Old Debate, More Participants: What do 80% of PhD holders do for a career?
I received a pamphlet the other day entitled: Careers Support for Life Science Post Docs (thanks to Anne and Lynn for letting me post this!) This got me thinking and building on the momentum from Beth’s Why do PhDs leave … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Financial, General, Jobs
Tagged AAAS, business, Cambridge, Canada, CAPS, Core Competencies, degrees, Employment, funding, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, McGill University, money, National Post Doc Association, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, Second Post Doc, Training, transferrable skills, University, University Affairs, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Toronto, UofT PDA
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Quarterly Summary: “CAP”ital Action and Effective Communication
This quarter has been a very active one for the Black Hole site, marked most notably by a tripling of site traffic in the month of March. Admittedly, most of this increased traffic was due to Budget 2010 and the … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, General, Jobs, Policy, Science Communication
Tagged Budget 2010, business, Canada, CAPS, CFI, CIHR, degrees, doctors, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, Journals, knowledge translation, life choices, MBA, MD, media, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, science and society, Science Communcation, science literacy, science outreach, SSHRC, Summary, taxes, Training, transferrable skills, University, UofT PDA
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