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Four exciting postdocs in Ecology and Evolution at Washington University in St. Louis!
Sometimes it isn’t just the project that attracts a postdo to a lab but it is the community. It isn’t easy to tell what that community is like sometimes, so here we share. Four of us are looking for postdocs … Continue reading
Postdoctoral positions available in our lab!
The postdoc can be an amazing period in your career if you are given the flexibility to pursue your own ideas under the broader envelope of what your host has funded. You want a postdoc in a collegial lab that … Continue reading
We have a position for a postdoc on amoeba-bacteria symbiosis available immediately!
Finally we got the call from NSF that our grant proposal was being recommended for funding in full. This new funding uses the social amoeba bacteria symbiosis to tease out exactly how mutualisms work, with both empirical work and theory. … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs, Postdocs
Tagged amoeba-bacteria symbiosis, Burkholderia, Dictyostelium, job, postdoc
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Exactly how independent should your research be?
The significance of a Ph.D. degree is that you can do much more than excellent research. You can also think of what questions to ask. You know how to push at the most important unknowns. You can read the literature … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate school, New ideas, Postdocs, Undergraduates
Tagged experimental design, independence, Ph.D., Research, scientific literature, techniques
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Why it is OK to have kids in grad school or as a post-doc
There was a post by Leonard Cassuto on having kids in graduate school and what a difference it made to one student when she heard that it was explicitly all right. The point that Leonard made was that our role … Continue reading
Quick tip for picking a great graduate program: look to the postdocs!
What if there is one simple way of assessing a program, something that is flexible, responds rapidly to increasing and decreasing quality, something that applies to the whole place but can also be used to understand one potential investigator over … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate school, Postdocs
Tagged academia, excellence, grad school, postdocs, Research, university rankings
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What to do when a postdoc isn’t working out
Your postdoctoral years should be glorious. You’ve proven yourself with a Ph.D., showing you can master your field and find something new to solve, often in collaboration with an adviser, solve it, write it up, and publish it. You have … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Managing an academic career, Postdocs
Tagged academic freedom, Biology, ideas, postdocs, Research
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