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CIHR Updates: Budget 2012 and Science Policy Fellowships
Today’s post is actually two mini-posts – one on CIHR’s response to Budget 2012 and the other on the announcement of their Science Policy Fellowship program. Response to Budget 2012 Earlier this month, CIHR President Alain Beaudet released a message concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Policy
Tagged Budget 2012, Canada, CIHR, CIHR Science Policy Fellowship, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, non-academic jobs, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, 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
Posted in Education and Training, General, Jobs
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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What to do with all the Scientists… find out at the 2011 Canadian Science Policy Conference
In a break from normal lab routine, I’ll be dabbling in the black arts of science policy this November and running a session at the 3rd annual Canadian Science Policy Conference. The conference runs from Nov 16th-18th and features an … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General, Policy
Tagged 2011 CSPC, Alan Bernstein, Angela Crawley, Canada, Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars, Canadian Science Policy, Canadian Science Policy Conference, CAPS, Chad Gaffield, CIHR, CSPC, David Kent, education, Gary Goodyear, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, MITACS, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, Olga Stachova, Ottawa, PDF, Penny Park, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Media Centre, SSHRC, Suzanne Fortier, Training, transferrable skills, University
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Quarterly Summary: Guest Bloggers are Great!
This summer featured our second summer series. Last year’s “So you want to be a…” was followed up this year by “Notches in the STIC” which navigated through the key points of the Science and Technology Innovation Council’s recent report … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge, Canada, CAPS, Council of Canadian Academies, CSaP, CSPC, education, Employment, fellowship, Government, Graduate Student, Marianne Stanford, Nassif Ghoussoub, non-academic jobs, Open Laboratory, PDF, PhD, Piece of Mind, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Recruitment of Policy Leaders, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Technology and Innovation Council, SSHRC, Stem Cell Network, Summary, Training, University
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The 24/7 lab: Motivated scientists or slave-driving supervisors?
At the end of August, an article popped out from Nature News that sent many PhDs and postdocs into a tailspin. After asking 11 labs with a reputation for “working hard” and being allowed to visit just one of them, Heidi … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Policy
Tagged 24/7 Lab, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Cambridge, Canada, degrees, education, Employment, Graduate Student, Heidi Ledford, life choices, money, Nature, non-academic jobs, PhD, Policy, Science, Training, University
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Quick Hit: Recruitment of Policy Leaders Program to run Oct 3-17, 2011
The Government of Canada has released details of its 2011 Recruitment of Policy Leaders program. We’ve written before about becoming a public servant which contains information about this program and others in the Canadian Public Service. If you are aware of … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Jobs, Policy
Tagged Canada, education, Employment, federal government jobs, Government, Government of Canada, life choices, money, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Secondary Recruitment, postacademic jobs, Recruitment of Policy Leaders, Science, Training, transferrable skills, University
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