Tag: PhD

• 5 steps to disrupt AND save academia. Hint: use startup investors

  The result of too many PhDs has meant a surplus of academics doing multiple post-doc tours of duty, lower wages, and a waste of tax payer money. All would be fine if there were enough jobs outside of academia to support those researchers in industry and government, but there are not. Let’s clarify that, there…

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  Jason Hoyt

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  January 18, 2011

  1–2 minutes

• An organized folder is a sign of a… file organizer

  As a PhD student I find myself roaming the Internet quite a bit in search of literature for my research project which can be really time consuming. Looking for the right keywords, opening each relevant result into a new tab, downloading each paper of interest, finding the cryptically named PDF file and then adding it…

  Written by

  Ricardo Vidal

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  April 6, 2010

  3–4 minutes

• Are there too many PhDs?

  Ever hear of Douglas Prasher? Probably not. He just missed out on this past year’s Nobel in chemistry. That’s not unusual, as many scientists never even come close to a Nobel. What is unusual, is that Dr. Prasher works at a car dealership, not in a lab. Despite doing the critical research on discovering GFP…

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  Jason Hoyt

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  June 16, 2009

  1–2 minutes