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David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
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This is awesome (and so freakin' true)
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Posted on: November 19, 2007 4:56 PM, by David Ng
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A PhD, THREE post-docs and only 6 papers.
Slacker.
Posted by: Jeb, FCD | November 19, 2007 6:31 PM
Be a scientist, save the world, work long hours for peanuts.
Posted by: Laura | November 19, 2007 6:55 PM
What Jeb said. No wonder he can't get a job.
Posted by: RPM | November 19, 2007 9:04 PM
I'm glad someone else said it first -- but I'll say it again.: 6 papers from 3 separate post-docs? What the hell was he doing all that time? And from PhD time? Come on dude, get pen to paper.
Posted by: BRC | November 19, 2007 10:00 PM
I actually first saw this pic tacked onto the job board at a research center I was visiting.
Posted by: Timon | November 20, 2007 2:39 PM
It depends on the field and how many years each
post-doc lasted. In some experimental fields,
six is a goo number. In some theoretical fields,
it is not so. It is all in the prespective,
dude :-) - mOhana
Posted by: J K Mohana Rao | November 27, 2007 11:26 AM
But can he do anything useful?
Posted by: William | November 27, 2007 4:27 PM
Ahh so he finally learns the one thing he should have learned all those years back, book smarts aren't worth shit in the business world.
Posted by: Chad | November 27, 2007 6:30 PM