Am I good enough to be a researcher? How to spot a bad supervisor? How I can find industry jobs? Should I continue my postdoc? When you pursue your research as a graduate student or postdoc, you face questions and issues like the above that are not directly related to your laboratory work but quiteContinue reading “New kind of mentors for junior researchers: youtube, podcast, blog…”
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Nature postdoc survey
“a crucial but often marginalized segment of the scientific workforce” NATURE CAREER NEWS 19 JUNE 2020 In the middle of the pandemic, June 2020, Nature launched a remarkable project. They made a survey dedicated to postdocs, which they described as “a crucial but often marginalized segment of the scientific workforce”. The questions are about the postdoctoralContinue reading “Nature postdoc survey”
The myth about scientists: pleasant lecture by Martin Chalfie
“I can categorically say I hate impact factors!” by Nobel Laureate Martin Chalfie. I normally do not follow Nobel prize laureate’s lectures. One reason is that I kind of become a bit bitter and sceptical towards big guys’ flashy lectures after all those years of conferences and seminars. And the other and more critical reasonContinue reading “The myth about scientists: pleasant lecture by Martin Chalfie”
Your contract, could you read it?
Language could be the biggest trouble in your life when you move out of your home country for studying or work. This somewhat quite trivial reasoning was not actually obvious for me. Well, let’s admit it, schools never teach you something really useful in your life. We researchers (or students) frequently assume that if youContinue reading “Your contract, could you read it?”
A traveller’s guide for grad students, Phdkim net
Papers are peer-reviewed, funding proposals go through the committee. Impact factor (value of IF would be a great post for later!), JCR ranking, citation numbers, h-index… It feels like everything in our community is continuously measured, compared and assessed.But what about grad school laboratory? If you just start looking for which lab to join. HowContinue reading “A traveller’s guide for grad students, Phdkim net”
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