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Quarterly Summary: Black Hole 2.0
Happy 2011 everyone – we hope you’ve all enjoyed 2010 and are looking forward to engaging you on many new (and old) issues in the coming year. It’s been a great quarter for us with increased traffic despite a slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, degrees, doctors, education, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, knowledge translation, life choices, media, money, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, science communication, science literacy, Summary, Training, transferrable skills, University
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Professionals in High Demand
Those who know me might recall a certain penchant I have for making terrible acronyms (or jokes in general) and I can’t believe that this one has escaped me for so long: PHD = Professionals in High Demand This tidy … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General, Jobs
Tagged Canada, degrees, disposable academic, education, Employment, Government, Graduate Student, Jeff Sharom, life choices, non-academic jobs, PhD, Policy, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, science and society, science communication, Training, transferrable skills, University
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Thoughts on doing a co-op in undergrad (from someone who has been there)
In response to Dave’s recent post on formal undergraduate training programs, I felt that it would be worth sharing my thoughts as someone who has just finished 16 months of co-op in academia and industry. I first started to think … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Co-op programs, degrees, education, Employment, Graduate Student, honours research project, Industry, international students, Lab Monkeys, life choices, medical school, Mentorship, PhD, Science, science co-op, Training, transferrable skills, undergraduate research, University
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Training Students: Not simply lab monkeys…
It’s term time here in Cambridge and this means that rotation students start passing through the labs (6-10 week projects in multiple labs to determine where to complete PhD research). This is a curious stage in the development of young … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, cookie-cutter PhD, degrees, education, Graduate Student, PDF, PhD, Post Doc, rotation students, Science, teaching, Training, transferrable skills, University
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New Metrics for Assessing Scientists: Collaboration Networks
Two of the most common complaints heard over coffee in medical science labs and the source of much mental anguish are 1) “Is there any hope in getting a Cell, Science or Nature paper” followed by 2) “Does my career … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, collaboration, collaboration networks, Counting Collaboration, Daniel Cressy, degrees, doctors, education, Employment, falsely constructed consensus, funding, MCAT fever, Nature retraction, non-academic jobs, Peer Review, Policy, publication record, Science, scientist metric, transferrable skills, University
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The Versatile PhD
Another site has recently come to our attention and Dave and I though that fans of The Black Hole might be interested in checking it out – it’s called The Versatile PhD and its mission is to help humanities and social … Continue reading
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Tagged Employment, life choices, non-academic jobs, nonacademic jobs, postacademic jobs, transferrable skills
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So you want to be “What my parents wanted” when you grow up…
This is the penultimate entry in our So you want to be a “____” when you grow up series and we have received some really good feedback on it – one final one to come from Beth later this week. … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, degrees, doctors, education, Employment, Graduate Student, Jobs, lawyer, life choices, MBA, MD, money, non-academic jobs, patents, PDF, PhD, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Science, Training, transferrable skills, ubaka Ogbogu, University
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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
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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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So, you want to be a Researcher in Industry…
QUICK HITS: 1. If you were interested in previous posts of mine about how well science information is distributed and received in the UK, then you might also want to have a gander at a recent post that I made … Continue reading
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Tagged BIOTECanada, business, Canada, Canadian Biotechnology Strategy, Careers in science, degrees, doctors, education, Employment, Graduate Student, Industry, life choices, MBA, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Research scientist, Science, Staff scientist, Student Biotechnology Network, Training, transferrable skills, UBC Therapeutics Intitiative, University
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So, you want to be an Educator when you grow up…
If you’re in graduate school or beyond, you have a wealth of experience to draw upon when it comes to assessing quality of educators. Some were engaging, inspiring, and really understood how to teach, others were boring, incomprehensible or simply … Continue reading
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