Taken for Granted series art Kelly Krause "If you want a job, you've got to go and develop the skills for your next job. The science is important," but "you have to demonstrate to me that you can exist in a wider world." --Laure Haak Hardly anyone knows more about postdocs than Laure Haak. She has been a postdoc --at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has written authoritatively ab...
Like many other postdocs supported by an individual fellowship, I have struggled to determine whether I was supposed to pay U.S. income taxes and how. Every year around tax time, my fellowship sponsor sent me a photocopy of the same 1994 letter from an independent consulting firm, telling me in no uncertain terms that as a postdoc I was not "self-employed" for tax purposes. The 1099 form I receiv...
Interested in reading about the meeting? Click on a session title to read the associated article. The Postdoc Network invites you to attend the second national Postdoc Network meeting " Implementation 2002: Opportunities for Collaboration" on 20 April 2002 in Washington, D.C. Following the success of the first national Postdoc Network meeting and the National Academies' COSEPUP Convocation on Enh...
A few days ago, the stock market in the United States fell to its lowest level since 1997 and markets around the world have been falling all year. So it is perhaps counterintuitive for Next Wave to train its focus on the careers of those involved in the commercialization of science. However, as Next Wave's editors around the world found out, this work continues apace and has in fact taken on a re...
This is a selection of articles that have appeared on the Postdoc Network and elsewhere on Science's Next Wave on the subject of women's career progression in the sciences. The underrepresentation of women in science and engineering degree programs and careers is not news. In fact, it is old news. So why do we keep hearing about it? Should we continue to pay attention? Most definitely. It is goin...
White mask (credit: Xenia Antunes) In 2008, Science Careers offered readers worldwide a collection of articles illustrating scientific career opportunities in and out of research, advising readers on landing good jobs and excelling in scientific careers, and profiling scientists who succeeded in research as well as some who looked elsewhere for fulfillment. This week, we recap the year, serving u...
Taken For Granted logo, credit: Kelly Krause Kelly Krause Early-career issues for postdocs and other researchers who deserve better. Beryl Lieff Benderly has been a regular contributor to Science Careers since 2003, writing on postdoc matters and other scientific workforce issues. She writes from Washington, DC. Shocked, Shocked! to Find Disappointment on Campus 13 November 2009 A new book takes ...
Editor's Note: John H. Marburger, III, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Policy Advisor to the President of the United States, presented the keynote address at the 2002 Postdoc Network meeting. We are encouraged by his willingness to work with postdocs, faculty, administrators, and funding agency officials to try to address the federal-level workforce issues faci...
In an Op-Ed piece published 11 October on the Web site of the National Academies, Jerome H. Grossman, a member of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable of the National Academies and a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, claims that the pool of science and technology talent in the United States is inadequate. "As the country struggles to contain terrorism and ...
PREVIOUS ADVICE question.gif Dear GrantDoctor, Do you need an R01 grant to get a job at a tier-I research university? I know serious numbers of people who have not found jobs specifically because they do not have grant funding. Good friends of mine are being told not to bother applying for positions unless they are bringing money with them. A friend's pink sheets just came back, and in her discus...
Editors play critical--but often behind the scenes--roles in publications of all sorts, as they work to make each individual manuscript, proposal, monograph, journal, or book as good as it possibly can be. Editors, as they are portrayed in movies and on television, are at once bookish and exciting. Science editors, like those we feature here, bring diverse and serious scientific backgrounds to th...
