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Doctors Without Orders: Highlights of the Sigma Xi Postdoc Survey
- Results of Sigma Xi's survey of 7600 postdocs at 46 US institutions. Very interesting discussion of salaries, training, and administrative oversight.
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Life Sciences Research Foundation
- "LSRF awards fellowships across the spectrum of the life sciences: biochemistry; cell, developmental, molecular, plant, structural, organismic population and evolutionary biology; endocrinology; immunology; microbiology; neurobiology; physiology; virology.... Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M. or D.D.S. degrees. Awards will be based solely on the quality of the individual applicant's previous accomplishments, and on the merit of the proposal for postdoctoral research."
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NIH Postdoctoral Index of Openings
- Current postdoctoral opportunities at the NIH
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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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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Cancer Immunology or General Immunology training
- "[S]upports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in cancer immunology or general immunology"
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Biological Sciences
- A big list of sources of fellowships assembled by UC Berkeley.
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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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Postdoc Survival Skills
- Paige Gordon, Chronicle Careers. " As I've circled around the tracks of multiple fellowships in the social sciences, I've picked up some insights. For anyone embarking upon a similar path, I humbly offer the following lessons on the postdoctoral race "
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Advice on Choosing a Successful Post-doctoral Position
- ASCB Women in Cell Biology. "Choosing the right post-doctoral position can be one of the most important decisions of a scientist's professional life. But some post-docs are unhappily surprised to discover that their chosen lab seems to be totally different when they arrive than it did the day they interviewed. How can a prospective post-doc make a solid choice that is good for her or him and good for the lab?"
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Post-Docs.com
- This website provides current job listings of post-docs, faculty jobs and other full-time jobs.
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Postdocs & students: Private foundations push for higher postdoc salaries
- The levels of most postdoc salaries at US biomedical research institutions are set by the National Institutes of Health. But private philanthropies, which consistently claim such stipends are insufficient, have worked to boost these wages by sponsoring studies on salaries and by offering their own grants with higher levels of support.
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Life Sciences Postdocs
- Compiled by the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department. One of the most comprehensive listings of postdoctoral fellowships online.
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PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Postdoctoral Position
- "You are a PhD candidate and your thesis defense is already in sight. You have decided you would like to continue with a postdoctoral position rather than moving into industry as the next step in your career (that decision should be the subject of another Ten Simple Rules). Further, you already have ideas for the type of research you wish to pursue and perhaps some ideas for specific projects. Here are ten simple rules to help you make the best decisions on a research project and the laboratory in which to carry it out."
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International Postdoctoral Opportunities Resource
- A reference point for parents, students, and guidance counselors that allow them to browse and search for college scholarships: bachelor, master degree, doctoral, PhD, and postdoctoral
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Environmental Fellows at Harvard University
- The Harvard University Center for the Environment will award eight two-year post-doc research fellowships to start Sept. 2006 to oustanding scholars in any field related to the environment. Each Environmental Fellow will work with a host faculty member in his or her department. The fellowship will provide a generous salary and benefits. Applications are due Jan. 15, 2006; details are posted at environment.harvard.edu.
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FindAPostDoc.com
- FindAPost-Doc.com is a new site exclusively dedicated to advertising Post-Doctoral positions.
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Finding the Perfect Postdoc for You
- Advice from Carol Manahan. "Since finding a good postdoctoral position (postdoc) is vital for your career aspirations, you should approach the postdoc search professionally. I would like to share with you what I have learned, defining 12 steps that I used to find my perfect postdoc position."
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Know how to beat the odds
- New Scientist, March, 2006. "An aspiring postdoctoral scholar could be forgiven for feeling some anxiety about the next few years of their career. Open any science magazine and you'll be told that life as a postdoc can be fraught with perils such as low pay, few benefits and, worst of all, a lack of career prospects. It doesn't have to be like that. If you know how to navigate the system, you can emerge with the skills needed to progress to the next stage."
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NIH Pathway to Independence Award
- "This initiative will develop and implement a new Pathway to Independence Award Program (PI) designed to facilitate receiving an R01 award earlier in an investigators research career. The primary, long-term goal of the PI Award Program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported independent investigators."
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- " The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Its emphasis is on the career development of outstanding scientists and on advancing areas in the basic medical sciences that are underfunded or that have a shortage of qualified researchers. " The fund has a number of fellowships for postdoctoral work and for early career scientists.
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Postdoc jobs at jobs.phds.org
- Postdoc job listings
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Going In With Eyes Open
- "A checklist of questions has been written by the International Postdoctoral Committee (IPC) of the NPA to aid prospective postdocs in search of positions that will give them a fulfilling experience. By reading through these questions, by understanding the reasoning behind them, and by finding out the answers that are important for you, you will develop a much clearer idea of what a particular postdoctoral position has to offer. We hope that this checklist will empower those considering a postdoc, especially international candidates who are not acquainted with the US system, to find appointments that suit his/her needs."
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How to write a great research paper
- Great advice from Simon Peyton Jones at Microsoft Research.
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Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship (VF)
- "For foreign national doctoral-level scientists within five years of obtaining their doctoral degree"
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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."
