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Statistics Help - Talk Stats Forums
Discussion forums for statistics enthusiasts. Get free statistics help or just hang out and talk about statistics.
The Young Mathematicians' Network
A loose organization of mathematicians in the junior part of their careers. They publish a newsletter, Concerns of Young Mathematicians, that comes out roughly once per month.
Tomorrow's Professor Listserv
"Sent biweekly to over 1,200 graduate students, postdocs, and beginning faculty in science and engineering at U.S. and Canadian universities. It is very helpful to those individuals interested in preparing for, finding, and succeeding at academic careers in science and engineering."
Lab-monkeys.com
Welcome to a community of students, technicians, post-docs, and researchers that work in biomedical laboratories. Find help with protocols and advice on your career choices. hang out in 'off-topic' and share your thoughts and joke with accomplished and budding scientists like you all over the globe.
Sci.Research.Careers
A very active usenet group (in web format courtesy of DejaNews) that discusses science career related issues.
Association for Support of Graduate Students' Doc-Talk
"This free, moderated email discussion list provides up-to-the-minute information from subscribers around the world--valuable information for graduate students and their faculty. Doc-Talk provides graduate students with information about how to do their theses. It presents abstracts of original articles from the acclaimed reference bulletins Dissertation News and its successor, Thesis News, published by ASGS. The list also provides extracts and reprints of other articles of interest, as well as reviews of resources and answers to students' questions pertaining to their theses. Additionally, Doc-Talk provides a forum in which personal thesis problems can be shared and resolved. ASGS conducts surveys on the experiences and perceptions of students undertaking their theses, and presents survey results on a regular basis."
Hypography Science Forums
Science forums with active discussion of current issues in science and technology. We welcome everyone.
Science Careers Forum
A moderated careers forum sponsored by AAAS.
The PostdocNet Archives
Archives of the Postdoc Network listserv.
xoxohth.com - Thread List
xoxohth.com is busiest college and Law board forums and have just added a Grad school forum. Simple, easy to use forum.
Network of Emerging Scientists (NES)
An organization for scientists at all transitional stages of their careers; the group focuses on a wide variety of scientifically-relevant issues. The site contains information, links, NES Digest archive, NES Discussion Forum (a web board), and Science for Non-Scientists. Lots of job information is found throughout.
Grad School Forum
Discuss everything from admissions to the dissertation in an open and comfortable environment
www.MaterialsChat.com
Career discussion board for Materials Professionals
Fellow-L -- the NIH postdoc discussion list
"The FELLOW-L list was created to promote fellowship between [NIH] postdoctoral staff and to provide a forum for educational, scientific and employment issues. The number of subscribers has grown to over 1000 and geographically extends from Bethesda to Baltimore, North Carolina, and Montana. The list is among the largest serving bench scientists at the NIH."
Naturejobs - Career Forums
The lively career resource from Nature. Discussion board for science career activists, jobseekers, recruiters and advertisers.
www.ChemistryChat.com
Career discussion board for Chemistry and Chemical professionals
The PPOL-PHD Listserv
"This forum is designed to help PhD students understand the multi- disciplinary aspect of their work, talk about research problems, devise strategies to circumvent pitfalls and serve as a refuge."