A few good nuggets:
"The
lack of permanent jobs leaves many PhD scientists doing routine
laboratory work in low-wage positions known as
“post-docs,” or postdoctoral fellowships. Post-docs used to last a year
or two, but now it’s not unusual to find scientists toiling away for
six, seven, even 10 years. The post-doc system is “dysfunctional and not
sustainable in the long term,” Princeton University
President Shirley Tilghman told top brass at NIH in June."
“They’ll
be employed in something,” said Michael S. Teitelbaum, a senior adviser
to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation who studies the scientific
workforce. “But they go and do other things because they can’t find the
position they spent their 20s preparing for.
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