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2012 Taxes for Postdocs: Dredging up the Past
A landmark decision was made late last month by the Ontario Labour Relations Board regarding the status of postdoctoral fellows. Jesse Greener, President of the University of Toronto’s Postdoc Association has recently, and nicely, summarised the impacts of this ruling … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Policy
Tagged Budget 2010, Canada, Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars, Canadian Taxes, CAPS, education, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Jesse Greener, McGill, money, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, scholarship, taxes, Training, University, UofT PDA
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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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Bidding You Adieu
So, a while back I mentioned that I would be applying to CIHR’s Science-to-Business (S2B) program, which provides scholarships for individuals with PhDs in a health related field to do MBAs. And the good news is that I was fortunate enough … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Financial
Tagged business, Canada, CIHR, education, fellowship, funding, life choices, MBA, money, scholarship, Science-to-Business Program, Training, transferrable skills, University
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Notch 1 in the STIC: The Production of PhDs – What Do We Do With Them?
In this first installment of our summer series on the Science, Technology and Innovation Council’s 2010 State of the Nation report, I’m going to take a look at some of the data on who’s getting an education in science and … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, STIC Report Analysis
Tagged business, Canada, CERC, CIHR, degrees, education, Education and Training, Employment, Government, Graduate Student, Jobs, life choices, money, PDF, PhD, Policy, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Technology and Innovation Council, STIC, Training, University
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2011 Summer Blog Series: Notches in the STIC
Over the last few weeks, Beth and I have been trying to identify a good topic for a summer series that our readers might enjoy. Just in time, offering the glue to hold our scattered ideas together, the Science, Technology … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, Jobs, Policy, STIC Report Analysis
Tagged Banting, business, Canada, CERC, CIHR, degrees, education, Employment, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, money, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Technology and Innovation Council, SSHRC, STIC, Training, University, Vanier
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The storm is brewing: Postdocs are speaking out…
Lucie Low, newly elected Vice Chair, Finance of CAPS and a current non-Canadian postdoctoral researcher at McGill has just published in Nature a scathing critique of Canada’s system which promised her more than it delivered, and further suggesting that …Canada … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General
Tagged Biodata, Canada, CAPS, CIHR, education, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, Lucie Low, money, National Postdoctoral Association, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, scholarship, Science, taxes, Training, transferrable skills, University
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Quick Hit: New CIHR / Health Canada Science Policy Fellowships
An interesting development for those interested in getting more involved in the science policy world… CIHR and Health Canada have joined forces to offer fellowships in science policy The Science Policy Fellowships program will allow researchers at the doctoral, post-doctoral, … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs, Policy
Tagged Canada, CIHR, education, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, Health Canada, knowledge translation, life choices, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, science and society, science communication, Science Policy Fellowship, Training, University
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To postdoc or not to postdoc?
Following a very popular article by Sonja B. (To MD or PhD: That is the Question), we were asked if we would be interested in having a similar article from so brand viagra online pharmacy meone choosing whether or not … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General, Jobs
Tagged Canada, degrees, education, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, life choices, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, Training, transferrable skills, University, work life balance
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New Metrics for Assessing Scientists: Let’s Accessorize
Quick Hit: Paul Krzyzanowski, another post doctoral fellow who writes for the Stem Cell Network blog just posted The underused academic in which he discusses funding levels of Canadian postdoctoral fellows and the balance of funding International imports vs. Canadian … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, education, faculty of 1000, funding, Government, Graduate Student, h factor, h-index, Journals, PDF, Peer Review, PhD, Post Doc, scholarship, Science, science and society, Training, University
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