Overheard in the hallway:
First postdoc: I have basically wasted a year.
Second postdoc (muttering to himself): I wasted a decade.
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So a couple of weeks ago, I wrote an entry about gender and science. I encourage you not only to read the post but also the comments.
As I've written before, things are happening in California.
For those of you not in the biomedical sciences, you may not be aware of the coming crises. Right now aspiring postdocs and new independent investigators are involved in a war of attrition when it comes to funding.
How did this happen?
So Friday I posted a photo of an ad that went up in our lunchroom. The feedback was very indicative of the current mood of postdocs within the life sciences: frustration.
This made me laugh out loud. I have a feeling this conversation happens between postdocs somewhere in the world everyday.
I once read an article where someone said that they knew more people whose lives had been ruined by science than had been ruined by drugs.