Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options answers only not deleted user 13240

Regarding Post-Doctoral appointments, duties and job-hunt.

8 votes

EU recognition of US postdoc without PhD

A postdoc is not a degree. It is a job. You cannot use it to substitute for a degree. If an exception were made to hiring requirements, it would be based on the applicant's publication record. A un …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
0 votes

PhD Advisor Slander to Postdoc PI

To start with, overall I agree with this answer: https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/202469/13240 If your goal is to get this person to stop slandering you, your supervisor, chair, and omsbudsperson …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
4 votes
Accepted

Choosing Between Postdoc Offers: Prestigious Institution vs. Favorable Conditions?

In most cases, professors have little discretion in the job offers they can make to postdocs. The offer must be approved by administrators and/or funding agencies. …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
10 votes

Leaving postdoc after 6 months (or less)?

it is a molecular ... People touching/working on lab without wearing gloves or lab coats You should not work in an organic chemistry lab that has bad workplace safety practices. I know people who h …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
0 votes

Verbal Postdoc Offer can be trusted?

Verbal or emailed job offers from a PI are not reliable contracts. Normal university policy would forbid a PI from making job offers. Job offers are usually signed by a dean or provost. Bluffing and …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
6 votes
Accepted

Physics PhD Student -- Is a 7 year PhD going to hurt my career prospects in academia?

Suppose you plan to work x more years. Currently you are paid y per year and at the end of your career you will be paid z per year, adjusted for inflation. If you spend an extra year earning y becau …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
11 votes

Why do people do a postdoc, rather than getting another PhD?

Postdocs are paid 130% to 330% of what PhD students are paid. (This is usually less than what the postdoc could get for a non-academic job.) …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
1 vote

I'm very late to applying for postdocs because I was aiming for industry jobs and didn't thi...

I started job searching in industry about a month ago I am not familiar with your individual situation, but for any job search I would recommend allowing a minimum of three months. If you expected …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
4 votes

Postdoc offer requires response before common deadline

You can say to them: Would you please extend the deadline to the date recommended by the AMS, which is February 6? Ask for higher pay, or something like that, too. Negotiating sometimes gets you wh …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
15 votes

Post-doc salary negotiation in US

Always negotiate all job offers, unless there is strong evidence it is futile. You will have less success negotiating a postdoc contract than many other kinds of contracts because the person hiring y …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
-1 votes

Can a postdoc conduct collaborative research with people that are not their PI?

Is it true that all projects of a postdoc have to go through their PI (even if the research is conducted during the postdoc's spare time)? No. That would be blatantly unethical. Authorship must be …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
2 votes

How should one navigate a "I currently do not have any open positions, that may change depen...

It's already his job to find ways to hire postdocs. You are approaching this backwards. …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
3 votes

Behavior of a postdoc supervisor changed after I had a campus visit for a faculty position

Your supervisor has many things in their life that are more important to them than your campus visit. It's most likely the change in behavior is caused by something unrelated. I've seen faculty sudde …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
4 votes

How to make sure that the Selection Committee made fair decision for a Postdoc position?

Is there anything I can make it to make sure the process was fair and indeed they evaluated my application? No. I do not know about your local laws, but in most places there is no requirement to ev …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar
-8 votes

At what point is an offer official?

In universities, if you do not have a contract signed by yourself and the appropriate university official, you do not have a job. This is more consistent in academia than it is in "industry" because " …
Anonymous Physicist's user avatar

1
2 3 4 5 6
15 30 50 per page