IF@ULB Call 2019 now open
IF@ULB offers a unique opportunity to recruit 63 international postdoctoral researchers in total at ULB. 21 postdoc researchers were granted a fellowship for the first call. They will start their project from 1 July 2019. More...
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Insecure employment for postdoc researchers is leading to bad science
Postdoc researchers like me aren't considered university employees, even though we're essential to research. This must change. More...
Join Your Grad Student or Postdoc Association
One important lesson Robert Pearson says he's learned is that professional development and such associations intersect in important and interesting ways. More...
Le programme PRESTIGE post-doc
Ouvert à tous, quel que soit leur domaine de recherche, le programme PRESTIGE encourage la mobilité des chercheurs français et étrangers depuis et vers la France. Il subventionne leur établissement français d'accueil ou d'envoi et participe ainsi au financement de leur projet de recherche. Plus...
UC San Francisco Settles With Former Postdoc
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of California, San Francisco, settled with a former postdoctoral researcher for $150,000 after she sued it, saying a high-profile tobacco researcher harassed her. More...
Got Energy Talent MSCA-COFUND Postdoctoral Fellowships: 1st Call for applicants
The University of Alcalá (UAH) and the University Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) are pleased to announce that up to seventeen (17) fellowships are available as part of the GOT ENERGY TALENT – COFUND Fellowship programme (GET-COFUND). More...
Do You Need a Postdoc?
Many Ph.D. students simply default to postdoctoral training as a logical next step, when instead they should be making a much more intentional choice, writes Stephanie K. Eberle. More...
Call for international postdoctoral researchers at Université libre de Bruxelles, deadline 15 October
IF@ULB is a European postdoctoral programme, COFUNDed by the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the European Commission within the framework of MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE actions (H2020). The programme will enable ULB to recruit 63 international postdoctoral researchers between 2018 and 2023, in three calls. More...
U of Washington Postdocs Form Union
By Colleen Flaherty. Postdoctoral researchers at the University of Washington voted to form a union affiliated with United Auto Workers, they announced Friday. More than 700 of the campus's 1,100 postdocs participated in the election, with 89 percent of unchallenged ballots being cast in favor of unionization, according to the union. More...
From Detour to Deliberate
The problem of post-Ph.D. employment, particularly for arts and humanities graduates, has become a mainstay topic of higher education blogs, conferences and other discussion forums. Diagnosing the problem's underlying causes and recommending strategies to solve it -- both on institutional and individual levels -- has become a movement in its own right, as illustrated by the widely used term "alt-ac," meaning alternative academic careers. More...