Papers Published
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s...
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Science needs to be
a transparent process. The methods used and the results obtained should be
easily accessible to and by all, not only to discuss conclusions, but also to
compare and contrast res...
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Current issues surrounding research and funding, in particular questions about
training and workforce stability, affect career development amongst graduate students
and postdocs. The Future of Rese...
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On 8th June 2015, Sir Tum Hunt
made a comment in reference to women in science which has generated much
debate. In response to this a group of 11 alumni of Clare College, Cambridge,
at which Tim Hu...
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This document contains my comments to the
National Institutes of Health Request for Information on “Sustaining the
Biomedical Workforce and a Potential Emeritus Award for Senior Researchers”, as
su...
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This document contains my comments to the
National Institutes of Health Request for Information on “Optimizing Funding
Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability of
Biom...
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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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Here we present
various pieces of advice from startup founders, academic professors, research
scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and industry executives to current and future
PhD students.
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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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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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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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