It’s taken nearly five years to build the Black Hole blog up to the point where we are having regular input from more than me + 1 (first Beth Snow and now Jonathan Thon) so this quarter it was especially nice to see numerous guest posts including a returning guest blogger. The goal of the blog has always been to have early career researchers writing about and researching topics that are near and dear to their hearts in order to get their issue a wider exposure (our blog’s readership includes funding agencies (national and international), university administrators, academics and policy makers in addition to hundreds of early career researchers).
I hope this month’s contributions will inspire others to step forward with their take on the education and training of early career researchers in the coming months. In the meantime, please browse through this quarter’s posts:
Guest Authors:
Sonja B.
- Brain gain: keeping international scientists in Canada
- Brain gain: keeping international scientists in Canada, part II
Kelly Holloway
Mark Lawson
Regular Authors:
Jonathan
- Start creating career options for yourself
- Who am I? The serial entrepreneur
- An impactful scientific career
- Federal response to academic priorities – the Bloc Québécois weighs in
Dave
- Funding agencies risk driving away international scholars
- What should you do with your science PhD? Learn from others
- We need to encourage formal and informal academic mentorships
Top 5 posts this quarter were:
- An impactful scientific career (18%)
- The trouble with the entrepreneurial mindset (6%)
- Fewer postdocs with higher salaries? Hold your horses! (5%)
- What should you do with your science PhD? Learn from others (4%)
- Brain gain: keeping international scientists in Canada (4%)
As always, if you have any advice or comments regarding the site – please get in touch at contact@scienceadvocacy.org as Jonathan and I are always looking for creative ways to explore new (and old!) topics. We hope that 2014 has started well for everyone.
