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Tracking Career Outcomes for Postdoctoral Scholars: A Call to Action
The oversupply of postdoctoral scholars relative to available faculty positions has led to calls for better assessment of career outcomes. Here, we report the results of a study... -
The Role of Gender in the Employment, Career Perception and Research Performa...
Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in the number of female PhD graduates in the Netherlands. Currently, the share of females among newly graduated PhDs is almost on par... -
Wrangling distributed computing for high-throughput environmental science: An...
Biologists and environmental scientists now routinely solve computational problems that were unimaginable a generation ago. Examples include processing geospatial data,... -
Take me where I want to go: Institutional prestige, advisor sponsorship, and ...
Placement in prestigious research institutions for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) PhD recipients is generally considered to be optimal. Yet some... -
Ten Simple Rules for a successful remote postdoc.
Author summary Postdocs are a critical transition for early-career researchers. This transient period, between finishing a PhD and finding a permanent position, is when... -
MAGPIE: Simplifying access and execution of computational models in the life ...
: Over the past decades, quantitative methods linking theory and observation became increasingly important in many areas of life science. Subsequently, a large number of... -
Ten Simple Rules to becoming a principal investigator.
The biggest choke point in an academic career is going from postdoc to principal investigator (PI): moving from doing someone else’s research to getting other people to do... -
Mapping Career Patterns in Research: A Sequence Analysis of Career Histories ...
Despite the need to map research careers, the empirical evidence on career patterns of researchers is limited. We also do not know whether career patterns of researchers can be... -
Building professionals’ intention to use smart and sustainable building techn...
: Smart and sustainable buildings save energy and material resources and provide a comfortable environment that enhances their occupants' well-being and productivity. It is... -
The "new normal": Adapting doctoral trainee career preparation for broad care...
: Doctoral recipients in the biomedical sciences and STEM fields are showing increased interest in career opportunities beyond academic positions. While recent research has... -
An evidence-based evaluation of transferrable skills and job satisfaction for...
PhD recipients acquire discipline-specific knowledge and a range of relevant skills during their training in the life sciences, physical sciences, computational sciences, social... -
Perceived losses of scientific integrity under the Trump administration: A su...
President Trump and his administration have been regarded by news outlets and scholars as one of the most hostile administrations towards scientists and their work. However, no... -
Navigating the path to a biomedical science career
The number of biomedical PhD scientists undergoing training and graduating far exceeds the number of academic faculty positions and academic research jobs. This trend compels... -
Ten simple rules for developing a mentor–mentee expectations document
There is general agreement that effective mentoring is beneficial for mentees, mentors, and overall scientific productivity [1, 2]. Discussions of what to consider in mentoring... -
Challenges and coping strategies faced by female scientists-A multicentric cr...
Women can play a pivotal role in the progress and sustainability of the world if they are empowered through education and employment opportunities in Science, technology,... -
Characterizing the University of California's tenure-track teaching position ...
Teaching faculty are a potential mechanism to generate positive change in undergraduate STEM education. One such type of faculty is the Lecturer with Potential Security of... -
Visualization of gender, race, citizenship and academic performance in associ...
It has long been thought that biomedical doctoral students pursue careers primarily as tenure-track/tenured faculty at research institutions. Recent reports showed, however,...
