Courtesy of the Drugmonkey blog, I came across this link to a recent Interventions Research Diversity conference. The following .ppt presentation entitled "Professional Women and Minorities: A Total Human Resources Data Compendium" was available for download and is worth perusing.
It covers US statistics on the nature of gender and ethnic diversity within different subjects at different levels of education, training and employment. It also has interesting information on H1B worker representation.
Showing posts with label PhD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PhD. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2009
"Professional Women and Minorities..."
Monday, December 1, 2008
Papers from the crypt: The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses
Do you find yourself becoming emotionally attached to your hypotheses? Do you struggle to remain objective, and wonder whether the integrity of your judgment has been compromised by an affectionate bias towards a particular idea or explanation?
If so, then the following article might be for you.
T.C. Chamberlin (1890). The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses. Science. 148, 754-759
Monday, November 10, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Poster help
A group in Flickr, called Pimp My Poster, gives feedback on poster designs that you upload. Join to upload a poster, or to comment on other people's posters.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Undergraduate research
A new website called WebGURU (GUide to Research for undergraduates), aimed at undergraduates, provides information about different aspects of research, from how to choose a lab to research integrity, not forgetting funding and safety. Lots of useful information.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Career in academia - would you like to improve your teaching skills?
If you are considering a career in academia and would like to improve your teaching skills, the Center for the Integration of Research Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) offers online courses that can be taken for credit or not.
Their website also offers a number of other resources, from articles to workshops, and it could be interesting to browse if you're interested in teaching.
Monday, November 19, 2007
From Grad School to Grade School
The Scientist, a magazine for the life sciences, published in September an article with the title above, mapping the route for PhDs who are interested in becoming a science teacher. The main point of the article was that there are many opportunities, with quick training available if you already have a PhD. The main tips were:
- Find a good mentor.
- Bone up on classroom management.
- Choose the right school.
- Keep it simple.
Unfortunately, this article is not freely available online. But if you're interested in becoming a science teacher, I recommend you try to track down a copy!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Mastering Your Ph. D...
The ScienceCareers website has published an informative article by the authors of "Mastering Your Ph.D.: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond", Patricia Gosling and Bart Noordam (ISBN: 978-3-540-33387-6).
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Defence Against The Dark Arts - enhancing your skills in molecular biology
The New England Biolabs Molecular Biology Summer Workshop, is held annually at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. It involves a two week intensive crash course in molecular biological techniques, including gene cloning, bioinformatics, PCR and RT-PCR and many others.
I attended this course shortly after starting my first postdoc in 2004 and would highly recommend it to both beginners in molecular biology and those with a more intermediate knowledge of the subject who might nevertheless be seeking to broaden their skill set. Attendants range from pharmaceutical sales reps with limited experience in biology all the way up to professors in various disciplines looking to diversify the techniques used in their own laboratories.
The course is very well designed, consisting of daily hands-on practical experiments paired with extensive lectures on the topics related to the experiments performed. This close association between theory and practical application serves to reinforce the material and significantly enhances knowledge retention, where it might otherwise evaporate from one's memory within days of the workshop's completion (a common problem with intensive learning courses). Despite being designed such that even newcomers to the field of biology can understand them, the lectures are surprisingly thorough and it certainly pays to take full advantage of the coffee breaks to keep the attention span well-caffeinated.
In addition to being a very well run course, the workshop also happens to be held in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Unfortunately, they work the attendees pretty hard during the two week (lectures and lab from 8am to 10pm most nights), so it's important to make the most of the one full day of "vacation" set aside during the course. Myself and a group of others used this time to cross the border into Vermont and climb mount Monadnock. Not exactly K2/, but a refreshing and picturesque jaunt nonetheless. There are also two evenings set aside for intramural volley ball and softball. Competition between the lab groups is encouraged and can be quite fierce, sometimes culminating in outright sabotage. We arrived in our lab after lunch break on one occasion to find that we had been the victims of a TP'ing!
The 2004 workshop staff waiting to take to the field in the interlab softball tournament
Workshop attendees taking advantage of the one solitary vacation day by climbing Mount Monadnock, Vermont.
Monday, July 30, 2007
On Being a Successful Graduate Student in the Sciences
In this article, Professor John N. Thompson, UC Santa Cruz, highlights what he considers to be the key elements in becoming a successful graduate student. Among other topics, he discusses the importance of setting goals for oneself and maintaining an efficient level of productivity, whilst keeping current on the literature through reading published articles and attending scientifics meetings.
[From the July, 2007, edition of the Biophysical Society Early Careers Committee's Next Step electronic newsletter]
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
All the career articles you could wish for...
The American Society for Cell Biology has an archive of their Career Strategy Columns. It's 9 years worth of great short articles, about all kinds of career issues that you may never even have thought about. I know I'll be reading them very carefully over the next little while, as my time allows...
Sunday, April 1, 2007
That First Conference...
Sooner or later every graduate student will have to pack their suitcase, take up their poster tube and, in the true spirit of adventure, set off for distant (and not-so-distant) lands in order to attend their first scientific meeting.
"Making the Most of a Conference" is a good article on the subject from ScienceCareers.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Taking the odds on head on
A successful career in science invariable requires making the right decisions at the right time. For graduates finishing their PhDs, applying for that first postdoc can be a daunting task. In the New Scientist, Catherine Zandonella provides some tips on "How to Beat the Odds".
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