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A Difficult Pill to Swallow: The Harsh Realities of a 15% Funding Rate
A country’s biomedical advancement and innovation is intimately linked to its investment in academic research (Measure for Measure: Chemical Research & Development Powers the U.S. Innovation Engine). Funding for research comes almost entirely from government and private donors (Stossel, T.P., … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Policy
Tagged biomedical research, Canada, CIHR, Education: The PhD Factory, fellowship, funding, funding rates, Government, Graduate Student, grant funding, money, NIH, PDF, Peer Review, PhD, Policy, postdoc, R01 grants, Training, United States, University
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Quarterly Summary: Jonathan Thon starts with a flourish
We were thrilled this quarter to welcome Dr. Jonathan Thon to the Black Hole in the capacity of regular contributor. He’s enthusiastically launched himself into the online blogging world with several articles and I’ve tried to scatter in a … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Budget 2010, Canada, CAPS, CIHR, degrees, education, fellowship, funding, Graduate Student, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Post Doc, Science, SSHRC, Summary, taxes, Training, University
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Bring home the (scientific) troops!
Read related entries to this post: Pitching solutions: Transition awards and Targeted Hiring The Problem: A lack of faculty positions at top-tier Canadian Universities and Research Institutes Making the Case for Increased Federal Support of Biomedical Research Repatriating young Canadian … Continue reading
Posted in General, Policy
Tagged biomedical research, Budget 2010, business, Canada, CIHR, degrees, doctors, education, Employment, Faculty jobs, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, Health Canada, industry canada, Leona Aglukkaq, PDF, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, SSHRC, Stephen Harper, Training, University
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Pitching solutions: Transition awards and Targeted Hiring
Read Jonathan’s earlier related entries to catch up on the series: Making the Case for Increased Federal Support of Biomedical Research and The Problem: A lack of faculty positions at top-tier Canadian Universities and Research Institutes One approach, in which Canada is … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General, Jobs
Tagged Canada, degrees, doctors, education, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, K99 Transitional Award, life choices, PDF, PhD, Post Doc, scholarship, Science, Training, University
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Who do universities want to hire – scientists or politicians?
In his article The Vanishing Voter, Harvard professor Thomas Patterson makes a statement about modern political campaigns that made me a little nauseous: Ambition, manipulation, and deception have become as prominent as issues of policy and leadership You might scoff at … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General, Policy, Science Communication
Tagged Canada, CIHR, degrees, education, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, Jobs, life choices, money, NSERC, PDF, Peer Review, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, publications, scholarship, Science, science and society, scientist metric, selling science, SSHRC, Training, University
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The Problem: A lack of faculty positions at top-tier Canadian Universities and Research Institutes
Related post: Making the Case for Increased Federal Support of Biomedical Research Science, technology, and innovation are critical drivers of economic growth and national well-being. In the context of health research, their impact extends to matters of human health, quality … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Jobs
Tagged Brigham and Women's, Canada, education, Employment, faculty positions, funding, Government, Graduate Student, Harvard, life choices, PDF, Policy, Post Doc, Science, Training, University
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Google Scholar “My Citations” – Useful tool or the height of narcissism?
Since I first read about it on the Piece of Mind blog by UBC Professor Nassif Ghoussoub, I have been trying to figure out whether or not Google’s new “My citations” is a useful tool for researchers. Essentially, this tool … Continue reading
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Tagged academia.edu, biomedexperts, Citation Manager, education, Employment, Google, Google Scholar, Google Scholar Citations, Graduate Student, Journals, LinkedIn, Nassif Ghoussoub, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Piece of Mind, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, Training, University
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Quarterly Summary: A Busy Autumn + Goodbye and Good Luck to Beth!
Happy 2012 everyone. The end of 2011 was very busy, but it was worth it to gather some momentum behind the ideas and conversations from the site in the form of our session at the Canadian Science Policy Conference as … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Canada, degrees, education, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, money, non-academic jobs, PhD, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, Summary, Training, University
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A deeper look into the “80% of PhDs who do not become professors”
In a recent comment left on the site by SubC, a request was made to “look deeper” into the 20% number of PhDs becoming professors. Specifically, the question was raised as to “how many that wanted an academic career in … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Policy
Tagged becoming a tenure track professor, Canada, CAPS, degrees, education, Employment, funding, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, Training, University
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University Affairs commentary on our CSPC panel
On November 30, University Affairs posted two articles that summarise and discuss the major issues that came up in our session at the 3rd Annual Canadian Science Policy Conference: Is Canada producing too many PhDs? Yes, no and maybe The … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Policy
Tagged 2011 CSPC, Canada, CAPS, CIHR, CSPC, degrees, education, Graduate Student, Leo Charbonneau, life choices, Mehrdad Hariri, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, too many PhDs, Training, transferrable skills, University, University Affairs
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