By Colleen Flaherty. PETA goes after a Yale postdoc for her research on birds, and some academics cry foul. More...
10 octobre 2017
8 octobre 2017
Making the Most of Your Postdoc
Victoria Reyes gives six tips for ensuring you have a valuable and successful experience. More...
16 juillet 2017
Landing a Postdoctoral Fellowship
While securing one is becoming increasingly difficult, Keisha N. Blain offers several strategies to improve your odds of success. More...
13 juillet 2017
Helping Postdocs With Children
By Colleen Flaherty. Postdoctoral fellows hopefully enjoy close mentor-mentee relationships with the principal investigators on their research grants. Few would probably expect those investigators to show up at the hospital after a baby arrived, asking when they planned to return to the lab, however. Yet that’s what happened to one survey participant in a new study on parent postdocs from the National Postdoctoral Association and the Pregnant Scholar project of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings. More...
14 avril 2017
New programme offers support to postdoctoral scientists
By Sam Otieno. African universities are set to benefit from a new US$2 million programme which will train postdoctoral researchers to support globally competitive research aimed at the creation of knowledge-based economies on the continent. More...
13 mars 2017
Number of Postdocs Holds Steady, but Fields Shift
By Doug Lederman. The number of postdoctoral researchers at American universities held steady in 2015, with a majority of the positions still in the biomedical sciences and clinical medicine. But the proportion of all postdocs who were in those fields continued to decline, while those in neuroscience, engineering and the social sciences increased, according to new data from the National Science Foundation. Read more...
25 janvier 2017
Top 4 Reasons Professionals Help Students and Postdocs
By Thomas Magaldi. Students and postdocs should not be wary of asking for help from professionals in their network, argues Thomas Magaldi, as they provide those professionals certain valuable assets. Read more...
24 janvier 2017
Study: Biomedical Postdocs Might Not Be Worth It
By Colleen Flaherty. Postdoctoral positions in the biomedical sciences are now considered almost a prerequisite for a permanent position in the field. But a new study published in Nature Biotechnology suggests that postdoc stints don’t yield positive returns in the labor market and likely cost graduates three years’ worth of salary in their first 15 years of work. Read more...
11 janvier 2017
PRESTIGE Postdoc program
Three mobility schemes are available:
- Incoming, allowing foreign or French researchers complying with the Marie Curie Actions mobility rules to carry out their post-doctoral research work in France;
- Outgoing, for researchers already working in French research institutions and universities (French citizens or other nationalities) wishing to carry out a post-doctoral research project in another country
- Re-integration, targeted at nationals of EU Member States or Associated Countries working in research for at least 3 years in another Third Country to come to France to further develop their career. Voir l'article...
11 janvier 2017
Programme de séjours de recherche post-doctoraux "Bernardo Houssay"
Faisant suite à des travaux préparatoires menés depuis 2008, le Ministère de la Science, de la Technologie et de l’Innovation Productive de la République Argentine (MINCyT) et le Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CONICET), d’une part, les Ministères français chargés de l'Education Nationale et de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (MENESR) et des Affaires Etrangères et du développement international (MAEDI), représentés par l’Ambassade de France en Argentine, d’autre part, (ci-après dénommées « les parties »), ont exprimé une volonté commune de créer un programme spécifique d’échanges entre l’Argentine et la France. Voir l'article...
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