Careerism:
Abel Pharmboy pointed to a piece in The Scientist entitled "Losing Your Lab" which discusses the plight of the soft-money researcher who has run out of funding. Actually, the plight of one researcher in particular. The commentary is, however, getting...
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Posted on May 9, 2008 10:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The NIH grant applications which will be reviewed Jun/Jul are going out to reviewers right about now. Poking through my pile of assignments I find that I have three R01 applications at the A2 stage (the second and "final" amendment...
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Posted on May 6, 2008 2:22 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have been receiving some thankful e-mails regarding a comment I left recently concerning dissatisfaction and malaise in the later stages of a PhD program to a post at Green Gabbro (Hi, Maria!), and I have been implored to lift...
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Posted on May 5, 2008 1:25 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A comment on a recent post of mine asked if I thought technicians should be paid more than postdocs. The direct answer is "no", the more-involved issue revolves around my belief that "internships" and "training periods" are used in essence...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 2:33 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm a little late to the "gender bias in particle physics" party, where Zuska, DrugMonkey, YoungFemaleScientist, and others too numerous to mention have been tossing back some brewskis and fending off the slobbering gibberish of ridiculous misogynist douchewheels like Gerard...
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Posted on April 26, 2008 10:13 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As purely entertaining as it is to watch PhysioProf troll the Open Access Nozdrul, these discussions always raise at least six interesting avenues for further thought. For example a comment from bill touches on the notion that private "ownership" of...
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Posted on April 24, 2008 7:46 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The titular observation was the beginning of a good twenty minute rant from YHN during a lab meeting a few years ago after one of the technicians said something along the lines of "well, but I'm just a tech". I...
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Posted on April 22, 2008 1:29 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde (or, as I like to call her, Dr. J) has a post up about the very interesting topic of PIs who continue to work at the bench physically performing experiments in their own laboratories. She...
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Posted on April 21, 2008 7:42 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PhysioProf was just minding his own business, clicking around visiting some of his fellow ScienceBloggers, when he stumbled upon this scurrilous attack by Sciencewoman: Dear PhysioProf, You're wrong. Here's why....
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Posted on April 19, 2008 7:50 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
[The motivating context for this has been removed because subsequent developments made it obvious that it was such a unique event that my post would violate the confidentiality of all concerned. In both minor and major ways. -DM] I keep...
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Posted on April 18, 2008 6:08 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
