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" According to the NLRB decision, Brown graduate assistants are ineligible to form a union because they are not employees. Rather, they "are first and foremost students, and their status as graduate student assistants is contingent on their continued enrollment as students."

"Either a mechanism to coordinate local surveys must be established, or stakeholders should get behind an effort to promote a national survey."

"Although the specific goals of the Roadmap themes are numerous, taken together they can be seen as an ambitious, desperately needed attempt to renew the commitment of NIH to the support for young investigators."

If you were to catch a glimpse of my desk now, you would surely recognise the German influence on me: Everything is perfectly ordered.

"Nowadays," she continued, "people have much more freedom in their personal lives and professional choices than they did when they were sold to an apprenticeship in the old days, and yet, at the same time, they're buying into this almost feudal system in which once you dedicate a certain number of years, you are bound by the amount of time you've spent." --Allegra Goodman

I quickly learned that my geography was lacking and that Spain has a small "Scottish" corner where it rains!

Given the opportunity, Jana Kadukova says she would definitely be keen to work abroad again. "In my opinion, everyone should try this once in their life," she says

If you read things at face value and don't wise up to the hidden meanings in paper-speak, you might get left behind.

Far too many postdocs let unrealistic expectations lead them to become apathetic about their own career development.

"If you can give a good account of why you did what you did, you are already a long way to winning your examiners over."

Fancy having a Ph.D. and not being able to get a job!

Whilst I deliberate on my next move, the view from this narrow ledge is interesting.

The fate of Ramón y Cajal researchers very much depends on their postcode, says National Association of Ramón y Cajal Researchers Secretary Alex Mira Obrador.