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Here's a really really grim (but very well written) account of the postdoc landscape. The short version is that the present tightening is just a a prelude to wh

by alexqgb 12y ago

Here's a really really grim (but very well written) account of the postdoc landscape. The short version is that the present tightening is just a a prelude to what many in the field see as a much bigger storm. The killer line is this one: “I was always told the myth as a child that we need scientists and I get here and find out that we don’t need scientists.” http://brooklynquarterly.org/pink-ribbons-red/ http://brooklynquarterly.org/pink-ribbons-red/

lutorm 12y ago
This is one of the things that science educators struggle with these days -- we need people who are knowledgeable about science, but is it really right to encourage students to go into science when we know what the landscape looks like? At a minimum, kids who "want to grow up to be a professor" should be told in no uncertain terms what the prospects look like, so they at least go in with open eyes.