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Postdoc Labor Love [PDF]

open access: yesACS Central Science, 2016
I look back fondly on my years as a postdoctoral fellow (1993–1995) as a period of heightened intellectual growth, clarity and optimism. After 5 years as a PhD student, I was finally set free to explore ideas more of my own creation, to start from scratch a new research project but this time with greater wisdom, experience and vision than was possible ...
Carolyn Bertozzi
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It Takes Another Kind of Village: How Older Husbands in Rural Spanish Communities Experience Caregiving

open access: yesAnthropology & Aging, 2023
This article explores how older husbands’ caregiving experiences are interwoven with the social representation of ‘the village,’ understood herein as an intimate, local community that actively contributes to long-term care on a daily basis. The concepts
Carlos Chirinos
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Developing a State University System Model to Diversify Faculty in the Biomedical Sciences

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Amid increasing demands from students and the public, universities have recently reinvigorated their efforts to increase the number of faculty from underrepresented populations. Although a myriad of piecemeal programs targeting individual recruitment and
Robin Herlands Cresiski   +9 more
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Effects of government spending on research workforce development: evidence from biomedical postdoctoral researchers. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
We examine effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers' (postdocs) productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US.
Hyungjo Hur   +2 more
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The unhappy postdoc: a survey based study [version 2; referees: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2018
Background: The emerging public discourse about the “broken” postdoc system is mostly conceptual (with several recent exceptions). The current work offers an attempt to quantify postdocs’ perceptions, goals, and well-being.
Amir Grinstein, Roi Treister
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How I learned to redefine academic success as a senior postdoc

open access: yeseLife, 2022
After many professional twists and turns, a researcher in his forties reconsiders what it means to ‘make it’ in science.
John J Tukker
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NextGen postdocs [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2018
Postdoctoral scholars have been in the public eye of late. Less than a week after the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) annual meeting last month, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released its report, “The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through.” The NPA's ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Struggling to get started

open access: yeseLife, 2020
As the world attempts to cope with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers about to start PhDs and postdocs face particular challenges.
Andy Tay
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A New Effort to Diversify Faculty: Postdoc-to-Tenure Track Conversion Models

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Calls to diversify the professoriate have been ongoing for decades. However, despite increasing numbers of scholars from underrepresented racial minority groups earning doctorates, actual progress in transitioning to faculty has been slow, particularly ...
Dawn Culpepper   +6 more
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Career choices of underrepresented and female postdocs in the biomedical sciences

open access: yeseLife, 2020
The lack of diversity among faculty at universities and medical schools in the United States is a matter of growing concern. However, the factors that influence the career choices of underrepresented minority and female postdoctoral researchers have ...
W Marcus Lambert   +5 more
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