Best and Worst Jobs in the US
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That's reassuring. Biologist is the 4th best....
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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision-making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments I currently attend or attended in the past.
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PhD Complete Rates
Category: Academia
Inside Higher Ed describes a study of complete rates for PhD students broken down by race/ethnicity, gender, whether the student is international or domestic, and by discipline. Here is the key chart: Cumulative Completion Rates for Students Starting Ph.D. Programs,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:08 PM • 9 Comments •
Relevant Graphic of the Day
Category: Science Life
Don't tell my boss... Prospects for work this summer are not improving...and fast....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:42 PM • 1 Comments •
English: the Lingua Franca of Science?
Category: Linguistics
A post over at the Scientist blog laments the difficulty in getting people to acknowledge the English-language bias in science: Many, perhaps most, scientists are grateful that English has become the international language, but an informative protest comes from Prof....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:31 PM • 24 Comments •
Beards: Suggestive of wisdom or harborers of disease
Category: Science Life
Anne Casselman at Inkling has this hysterical article on scientists/physicians with beards. Here's a bit on why some public health experts want doctors to lose the beard: Fast forward to 1967, when three scientists from the Industrial Health and Safety...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:44 PM • 6 Comments •
Genomes Sock
Category: Science Life
Bring more science into your life with scientific knitting... This comes via Virginia Postrel where she examines the new glamorous scientist. That makes the extraordinary success of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which begins its eighth season this month, all the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:12 AM • 0 Comments •
Cross-ideological Dating
Category: Science Life
James Kirchick at Independent Gay Forum mentions the trouble he has had dating outside his politics: "I can't date someone with a different belief system" is what he told me. I expected this answer from the guy I had been...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:08 AM • 6 Comments •
Anatomical Tattoos
Category: Science Life
I sometimes gave my anatomy professors hell for wearing anatomy-themed t-shirts, but this is a whole new level. Check out these anatomy-themed tattoos. There are many more here. Hat-tip: Andrew Sullivan...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:23 AM • 5 Comments •
That Some Scientists are Mean is Generally Acknowledged, But Also Not Relevant
Category: Science Life
This is pretty funny, but also quite true. It is from a comment on a post at Chicago Boyz: One of the arguments in Jonathan Rauch's "In Defense of Prejudice," is another dirty secret is that, no less than the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:17 AM • 1 Comments •
Molecular Biology Metaphors
Category: Science Life
James Gorman, writing in the NYTimes, laments the relative dearth of molecular biology colloquialisms: Geology and ophthalmology may provide most of our overused metaphors (maybe that's what geopolitics is), but other sciences do their part. Anatomy has contributed the jaws...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:17 AM • 3 Comments •
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