Monday, August 31, 2015. Scientific Knowledge - At What Cost? Yet another colleague got divorced. Is it our personalities or profession that makes family life crappy? I wish I knew the answer. It unfortunately seems all to common and I am worried I am headed down the same path. I feel like a laughing stock, made fun of for believing I could make a difference in science while making a difference for my kids. For working at home instead of staying in the lab 60 hours a week.

A blog about life in life sciences. Check us out in Scientopia. To see latest posts, go here. Back when I was starting in my faculty position and failing to get grants funded and papers accepted, I had a tendency to blame the system. I considered myself that special snowflake.

Thursday, September 2, 2010. The grad student totem pole. There are certain things about grad school that you kinda forget about once you move on. All the good stuff is down! Before long, the noob realizes the deal and starts counting down to the next resource shuffle. In the wake of t.

A blog about a scientist returning to academia after 7 years away. Non-academic science career information aggregator. There was an error in this gadget. With all the hubbub about postdoc pay. Tenure impacts and the two-body problem.

I am a professor at a primarily undergraduate institution. This blog is primarily about life at a PUI, but also about our family trying to make the most of an uncomfortable lifestyle. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. How about instead of spending hours brainstorming by ALL faculty- a bunch of specialists in something else, and each with extremely different programmatic needs and d.