The goal of federal funding is not to make it even more likely that you would do a postdoc on the east or west coast, but to ensure all postdocs throughout the nation have a reasonable starting salary. An easy argument can be made that institutions have the ability to make COL adjustments.
We did. Currently the higher cost of living areas are generally aligned with areas that already, arguably, get a disproportionate amount of postdocs. One unintended consequence of COL adjustment would be to further incentivize going to these places for a postdoc.
Truly re-imagining the postdoc will require commitments from everyone including funding agencies, journals, industry leaders and institutions, but we have tried to outline top recommendations for how the NIH can have an impact. The report is now available. www.science.org/content/arti...
Tenure track assistant professor position at Duke in integrative immunobiology, wonderful colleagues and science. Applications due October 15 with lots of details about the search here: immunobiology.duke.edu
You are also allowed to write and ask them to update it in your file if it’s a big one. The committee usually will have no idea changes were made if they say yes.
My graduate alma matter used to tout their ranking every year with pride but today I got a letter from them quoting a statement that these rankings have always been meaningless-after they dropped in ranking. They can’t have it both ways. A more mature response would be to do some self reflection.
I definitely married my partner so I could one day have a Starbird lab. But, I’d be willing to part with that long term plan for $30 million 😁
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