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Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
There was no shortage of feedback; the group received nearly 3,300 responses, nearly 70% of which come from graduate students and postdocs.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
The group’s recommendation that NIH funds support postdocs for no more than five years is intended to prevent that from happening.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
Over 400 scientists and their students and postdocs have helped improve the project and create a lot of momentum for it.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Loeb is known to be kind and nurturing to his students and postdocs, but the number of scientists who refuse to talk to the media about him is telling.
—Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
In the lab space, a cluster of students and postdocs are at work.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
Organizers gathered signatures in support from roughly 3000 of the 4800 postdocs, graduate students, and other junior researchers who would be represented by the union and submitted the petition to the U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority, which oversees federal employee unions.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 8 June 2023
The next year, Loeb was celebrating his 60th birthday with some former students and postdocs on Martha’s Vineyard when someone emailed him saying that NASA had convened the U.A.P. study group led by Spergel.
—Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
The 21-member group—comprised of NIH officials and researchers at different stages of their career—was convened in November 2022 amid reports that faculty members were struggling to fill open postdoc slots.
—Bykatie Langin, science.org, 12 June 2023
In 2021, a postdoc and undergrad student in Colorado met up to check out some specimens in the collection from the Green River Formation.
—Moiya McTier, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
At four public listening sessions earlier this year with attendees from more than 350 institutions, the working group heard a range of ideas, including supplemental funding for parents, better oversight of postdoc mentors, and a shift to hiring more staff scientists in academia.
—Bykatie Langin, science.org, 12 June 2023
During Friday’s session, Berger presented data showing a recent decline in the number of biomedical postdocs and stated that the minimum postdoc salary set by NIH—$56,484—hasn’t kept up with inflation.
—Bykatie Langin, science.org, 12 June 2023
At the start of this year, MIT increased its minimum postdoc salary to $65,000, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., raised starting pay to $70,000.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
One of those is that institutions must match their postdoc stipend to NRSA levels, which in reality are meant to be minimum salaries.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
And in January, a study led by his postdoc Shane Liddelow made a giant step forward in explaining how astrocytes are transformed into destructive A1s.
—Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2017
Noun
This same survey showed that nearly a quarter of postdocs had worked for at least six years.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
There was no shortage of feedback; the group received nearly 3,300 responses, nearly 70% of which come from graduate students and postdocs.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
The group’s recommendation that NIH funds support postdocs for no more than five years is intended to prevent that from happening.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
Over 400 scientists and their students and postdocs have helped improve the project and create a lot of momentum for it.
—Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Loeb is known to be kind and nurturing to his students and postdocs, but the number of scientists who refuse to talk to the media about him is telling.
—Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
In the lab space, a cluster of students and postdocs are at work.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
Organizers gathered signatures in support from roughly 3000 of the 4800 postdocs, graduate students, and other junior researchers who would be represented by the union and submitted the petition to the U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority, which oversees federal employee unions.
—Byscience News Staff, science.org, 8 June 2023
The next year, Loeb was celebrating his 60th birthday with some former students and postdocs on Martha’s Vineyard when someone emailed him saying that NASA had convened the U.A.P. study group led by Spergel.
—Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
Adjective
Almost 90% of respondents cited pay as a major issue, which informed the group’s top recommendation: increasing the amount of a postdoc fellowship paid by the NIH called the National Research Service Award.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 15 Dec. 2023
The 21-member group—comprised of NIH officials and researchers at different stages of their career—was convened in November 2022 amid reports that faculty members were struggling to fill open postdoc slots.
—Bykatie Langin, science.org, 12 June 2023
In 2021, a postdoc and undergrad student in Colorado met up to check out some specimens in the collection from the Green River Formation.
—Moiya McTier, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
At four public listening sessions earlier this year with attendees from more than 350 institutions, the working group heard a range of ideas, including supplemental funding for parents, better oversight of postdoc mentors, and a shift to hiring more staff scientists in academia.
—Bykatie Langin, science.org, 12 June 2023
During Friday’s session, Berger presented data showing a recent decline in the number of biomedical postdocs and stated that the minimum postdoc salary set by NIH—$56,484—hasn’t kept up with inflation.
—Bykatie Langin, science.org, 12 June 2023
At the start of this year, MIT increased its minimum postdoc salary to $65,000, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., raised starting pay to $70,000.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
One of those is that institutions must match their postdoc stipend to NRSA levels, which in reality are meant to be minimum salaries.
—Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 6 June 2023
And in January, a study led by his postdoc Shane Liddelow made a giant step forward in explaining how astrocytes are transformed into destructive A1s.
—Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2017
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