On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, the blog post
“Eroding
Benefits for UMD postdocs?” caused quite a stir (Benderley,
2015). Such a stir, in fact, that the post was soon taken down, and revised
(you can ...
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One of the ways that early career researchers can
effect change in the academic research system is to make their voices heard,
particularly when their input is solicited. Two agencies are solicitin...
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In their letter, "Ailing academia needs culture change" (1), V. Callier and N. L. Vanderford highlight the inherent institutional instability that has been generated by flooding academic science wi...
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Organizing this symposium was a tremendous
learning process for all of us. Here, we record the process we used, and the
guidelines we’d follow (or not!) if we were to do it all over again. We hop...
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Contemporary scientific research faces
major cultural and institutional hurdles. Some of the primary challenges
include an exploding knowledge base and organizational complexity of many
scientific ...
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In several recent articles, I proposed the
creation of new graduate programs aimed at training scientific generalists.
Here, I collect and respond to a number of comments and criticisms raised in...
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