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Just a job?
A question arose in another venue. Is graduate school attractive simply as a job? Without any particular motivation based on training or credentialling for a future job that uses the PhD? Minimum wage… more →
DrugMonkey
Just a job?
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drugmonkey wrote 10 months ago: A question arose in another venue. Is graduate school attractive simply as a job? Without any partic … more →
On Establishing "Independence"
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drugmonkey wrote 1 year ago: One bugaboo of scientific transition, and gaining respect in the field in which one works, is the co … more →
ISI has two sets of citation books
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: Coturnix has the call: there was a study the other day, in the Journal of Cell Biology, that serious … more →
"The dean denied it" and other standard tricks of hiring
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: I’m always the wet blanket on people who are fielding job offers. YHN trends cynical, sure. Th … more →
Sloooow Burn
drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: Just noticed this post on Uncertain Principles. Chad’s breaking out the can ‘o whupass o … more →
NIMH Strategic Plan open for comment
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: The NIMH is soliciting comment on it’s draft Strategic Plan (actual pdf of the draft here) tha … more →
Update on the James Sherley affair
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: I’d been wondering what was going on with the infamous MIT denial-of-tenure case (blogging her … more →
In which BikeMonkey discusses "ambition".
bikemonkey wrote 2 years ago: I was going to reply to the DM’s query on “ambition” in science careers (motivated … more →
Ambition
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: This post over at FSP gets me thinking. What is your ambition in your science career? When you hit 7 … more →
Or maybe Jim Watson has a point
drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: ….cause, you know, if they were any good, why are there so few of them in the faculty ranks? … more →
Imposter Syndrome
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bikemonkey wrote 2 years ago: A little bait for the DM and the PP. I ran across an interesting three parter (one, two, three) from … more →
The Nine Types of PI
bikemonkey wrote 2 years ago: See Effect Measure (or revere’s source) for a cartoon on the 9 types of PI. (The original sour … more →
Thoughts on the Least Publishable Unit
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: A reader dropped the blog an email note which, among other things, was interested in a discussion of … more →
Constant, vague, just-below-the-surface discrimination
drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: An Observer piece by Wray Herbert summarizes a recent article in Psychological Science: Black volunt … more →
Is it worth mentoring grad students and postdocs?
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: A really good discussion on the mentoring job over at New Kid on the Hallway with several posts here … more →
Freeware Impact Factorin' on Google Scholar
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: There’s a nifty little application called Publish or Perish available from Harzing.com which c … more →
The CSR peer review opinion seeking goes local...
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: As I mentioned before the CSR of the NIH issued a Request for Information on several topics of inter … more →
Ageism: A 36 year old dean?
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: The Chronicle has a piece which boils down to “I’m a 36 yr old academic, I want to be a … more →
Blogrolling: On being a scientist and a woman
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drugmonkey wrote 2 years ago: I want to note that the Borg (ScienceBlogs™) has picked up ScienceWoman’s blog “On being … more →
