Workshops to postdocs and publishing

Perceptions about postdocs

1104 During his interview with EMBO reports (Wiesel T (2004) EMBO Rep 5: 747–750), Torsten Wiesel referred to postdoctoral fellows as “students” and “postdoctoral technicians”. We take issue with this notion, as we believe this does not adequately describe the important role of postdocs in research and because it sends the wrong message to prospective employers outside academic science. It is s...

Dual Spacization Approach to the Electronic Publishing

Dual spacization of publishing means emergence of digital publishing in online and offline virtual environments along with analogue publishing. Analogue publishing is a kind of publishing that is produced in the form of physical printed writings as they appear in a single paper, single or many pages newspapers and magazines and books, writings on leaves and pieces of trees, natural skin and lea...

Postdocs power research.

ater this month, postdoctoral researchers and representatives from research associations around the United Kingdom will gather in Cambridge, UK, for the first National Postdoc Meeting, also the inaugural event of the latest Postdoc Centre of the University of Cambridge. This gathering coincides with the United States National Postdoc Appreciation Week and marks increasing, though long overdue, ...

Budget cuts and the plight of postdocs.

How postdocs benefit from building a union