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The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers
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in HomeChronicle of Higher Education , September 2007. "[F]or many of today's graduate students, the future could not look much bleaker. They see long periods of training, a shortage of academic jobs, and intense competition for research grants looming ahead of them. 'They get a sense that this is a really frustrating career path,' says Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. So although the operating assumption among many academic leaders is that the nation needs more scientists, some of brightest students in the country are demoralized and bypassing scientific careers."
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Graduate School Survival Guide
- " Concise suggestions for: getting the most out of the relationship with your reseach advisor or boss, getting the most out of what you read, making continual progress on your research, finding a thesis topic or formulating a research plan characteristics to look for in a good advisor, mentor, boss, or committee member, avoiding the research blues. "
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After the Offer, Before the Deal: Negotiating A First Academic Job
- By Chris M. Golde, Academe , January-February 1999. " What is a fair salary? Can I ask for moving expenses? When can faculty members negotiate reductions in their teaching loads? These are the kinds of questions graduate faculty often hear from their students who have just been offered academic jobs. Besides training young scholars as teachers and researchers, we also mentor them in their search for jobs. As a result, we're expected to know the answers to such questions. In this article, I offer suggestions to the just-appointed faculty member who seeks to be a savvy participant in negotiating the terms of a first job. "
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How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors
- by Marie desJardins. " This paper attempts to raise some issues that are important for graduate students to be successful and to get as much out of the process as possible, and for advisors who wish to help their students be successful. The intent is not to provide prescriptive advice -- no formulas for finishing a thesis or twelve-step programs for becoming a better advisor are given -- but to raise awareness on both sides of the advisor-student relationship as to what the expectations are and should be for this relationship, what a graduate student should expect to accomplish, common problems, and where to go if the advisor is not forthcoming. "
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Frequently Asked Questions from sci.research.careers
- The collected wisdom of sci.research.careers on going to graduate school, doing a postdoc, and alternative careers.
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How to write a great research paper
- Great advice from Simon Peyton Jones at Microsoft Research.
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PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Graduate Students
- "Choosing to go to graduate school is a major life decision. Whether you have already made that decision or are about to, now it is time to consider how best to be a successful graduate student. Here are some thoughts from someone who holds these memories fresh in her mind (JG) and from someone who has had a whole career to reflect back on the decisions made in graduate school, both good and bad (PEB). These thoughts taken together, from former student and mentor, represent experiences spanning some 25 or more years."
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The Noel Smith-Wenkle Salary Negotiation Method
- "Salary negotiation is something at which hiring managers are usually a lot more proficient than the people they hire. In the interest of leveling the playing field, here is a method for salary negotiation that has worked for me and many others."
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Negotiating: Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?
- ScienceCareers.org "Whether you're a fresh Ph.D. searching for a lab in which to do a postdoc, or you're trying to land a junior faculty position and create your own lab, negotiations are crucial in developing your scientific career. Reaching satisfying compromises with the head of a lab or the department chair requires first-rate communication and social skills. Professional bargaining, for example, could win you promises of more start-up funds, additional space, or extra equipment. At the postdoctoral level, good negotiating may mean you wind up taking away part (or all!) of your project when it's time to leave. But negotiating doesn't start and end at interviews: Interacting with an employer, department chair, or lab director takes place throughout your research career."
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Women in Science
- "This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs."
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in BlogsA blog about applying to graduate school. The focus appears to be on international students applying to schools in the US.
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Academic Scientists at Work: Negotiating a Faculty Position
- ScienceCareers.org "Negotiating a job is similar to playing a hand of poker: the stronger your hand - your credentials - the more you can demand. The trick is to know what aspects of the position are negotiable and what the limits are; otherwise, you may find that the offer has folded. This article will discuss the issues at stake in academic science research positions and offer some suggestions on how you could approach your own negotiations so that you get the job you want and the start-up package you need."
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Academic Scientists at Work: Where'd My Day Go?
- ScienceCareers.org - "'5:30! I hardly got anything done today,' your colleague with the curly red hair shouts at you as she passes you in the hall. You think you didn't get anything done either, yet there the two of you are standing in the hall yabbering about how the day went by and nothing got done. You both complain that there was no time to finish your experiments, write your test questions, revise your hot manuscripts, meet with your advisees, help with graduate-student recruiting, design the new Web site for your department, order the food for the department poster session, and pick up the kids from soccer practice at 7:00. But, as you look around, some of your colleagues seem to have it all under control. How do they do it?"
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Nine Key Negotiating Points
- "Laurie Weingart, a negotiations expert and behavioral analyst, provides advice on nine issues that should be addressed when negotiating a junior faculty position."
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How to Be a Good Graduate Student
- by Marie desJardins
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Writing and Presenting your Thesis or Dissertation
- This non-commercial " practical guide " has been created to assist in the crafting, implementing and defending of a graduate school thesis or dissertation. It includes a variety of strategies, suggestions and advice covering every stage of the thesis or dissertation project.
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Choosing The Right Research Adviser
- by Richard Reis. "This month, I want to explore the other side of this research coin -- how to go about finding the right adviser -- an issue that is important not just in the sciences but in the humanities and social sciences as well."
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When hard work doesn't pay: In some high-pressure labs, training is an afterthought
- US News & World Report , March 29, 1999. The report card on graduate doctoral programs in research universities, part of the annual ranking of graduate schools, is less than glowing.
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Giving a Job Talk in the Sciences
- " As a doctoral student or postdoc seeking a professorship, your academic job talk may well be the most important presentation you will ever give. An excellent talk can get you the job, while a poor one will almost surely eliminate you from contention. "
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PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants
- "At the present time, US funding is frequently below 10% for a given grant program. Today, more than ever, we need all the help we can get in writing successful grant proposals. We hope you find these rules useful in reaching your research career goals."
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Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual
- by Diane P. O'Leary
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Getting Through Graduate School
- by Amy Fluet, HMS Beagle , January 21, 2000. A collection of useful resources on surviving and thriving in grad school. " If you have only one bookmark to spare on a grad-student-related site, place it at PhDs.Org. " (Requires a free HMS Beagle membership)
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The "Right" Postdoc Mentor
- by Robert J. Dooling. "What should a new trainee look for in identifying a postdoc mentor?"
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Negotiating Offers for Faculty Positions
- A guide from the UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs.
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Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
- Many interesting links can be found at this site.
