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"You want your student to be able to turn the handle and watch at least some decent results slowly emerge."

The survey confirms common knowledge about fellowships in the aggregate-- postdocs in the biological sciences have the largest awards and those in the arts and humanities the smallest.

Reform efforts will have to be collaborative. While the postdocs themselves must play a role, the major responsibility for change lies with those who have the most power." --
COSEPUP report (2000)

Why is it that postdocs are only recently beginning to organize themselves to bring these issues to light?

"A Marie Curie Individual Fellowship gave me the freedom to find a project in my area of interest, where I could both get trained and bring some know-how to my new department."

"Scientists might be portrayed as geeks, but a successful one certainly has to be a people person."

"A credible, quantitative database will serve as the foundation supporting necessary reform initiatives and as the baseline to track progress."

"I've talked to scores and scores of people who allege misconduct, and most of them are entirely right"

"The fellowship gave me the opportunity to go out there and prove to myself that I could make it as a researcher."

The postdocs take particular pride that dire predictions of spoiled relationships with mentors have not come true. The negotiations, in Wallace's words, "were very harmonious and productive."

"There is always a local wave to catch (often with some money floating in it), and you need to get yourself and your surfboard right in there."

It’s amazing how often I’ve sat next to a famous face on the way to a conference.

If you don't have a pathway award or a similar fellowship, you'll probably be competing for the positions left over once all the award winners have been placed.

"If [the union] is open, honest, and transparent, I think that postdocs at UCSF would welcome discussion." --Anne T. Union