kwitschas @kwitschas@social.cleverlibre.org

My new group at Physics of Life, Technische Universität Dresden (@PoLDresden), is looking for an administrative assistant.

Join our wonderful admin team!
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/contact

Please apply here (in German)!
https://www.karriere.sachsen.de/karriere/stellenanzeige.jsp?q=Fremdsprachenassistenz&internalJobAdvertisement=&managerialResponsibility=false&searchRadius=25&fachbereichId=1&locationId=77&sortOrder=LATEST_RELEASE&page=1&id=27218

New posting! And a very personal one.

In January I handed in my resignation, and will be leaving the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, the University of Würzburg, and the Physics of Parasitism network at the end of April.

I am #LeavingAcademia.

More discussion of this decision, the reasons for it, and what it means for TIR, in the posting below.

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/03/19/changing-lanes/

Elliot Murphy ROSE: A Neurocomputational Architecture for Syntax https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08877.pdf

Strife at eLife: inside a journal’s quest to upend science publishing
Here's what's been going on w/
eLife and Mike Eisen: support and also some resistance - including editors' threats to resign.
Reporting by Alison Abbott | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00831-6

Good opportunity and #great lab #postdocs #applynow
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RT @DeNardoLabWUSM
Tumor Immunology postdoctoral position available!!
Are you interested in tumor immunology and/or the stroma? So are we! We are currently adding postdocs to our team. Visit website for details and email denardolabjobs@gmail.com
https://www.icce-wustl.org/david-denardo-lab.html
https://twitter.com/DeNardoLabWUSM/status/1636774382751334401

Further damage to the dysfunctional academic career system in Germany: The government has just presented its reform of the fixed term contract law (#WissZeitVG).
After years of #IchbinHanna protests, the max. length of fixed contracts for postdocs has been reduced to 3 years. The cynical argument: Careers become more predictable, because 3 years after your PhD, it's either professorship, third party funding, or exit.
The lack of a broader tenure track system makes this a devastating development.

“Opposition to eLife’s [publish everything, then review] model is driven fundamentally by powerful scientists not wanting to change a system that has benefited them and which they have sculpted to continue to reward them”.

Bingo.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00831-6

For aspiring physician-scientists, Postdoctoral clinical fellow call at the Crick.

https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/clinical-fellows/postdoctoral-clinical-fellows

Data really is the new oil!

#sciencetracking has become more lucrative than academic #publishing:

"less than half of Elsevier’s revenues come from academic journals"

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2023/03/should-you-trust-elsevier/#comment-5670

With total revenues of 2,909 million £ that's about about 1.7 billion € (or US$) from science tracking in 2022 for #Elsevier.

While the general public doesn't pay to become the product, academics are spending billions for the privilege to serve as a corporate commodity. Smart!

#openscience #openaccess

Nice initiative from @Co_Biologists to plant a tree for every manuscript.

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/6/jcs261084/297138/The-Forest-of-Biologists-for-biologists-for

Or first is already there :

https://forest.biologists.com/landscape/?id=85380

#forestofbiologists

Ironically, it's a silver birch to which I am seasonally allergic 🤧

Tracing synaptic connections is hard, even more so in the human brain. We recently developed a new high-throughput circuit tracing approach and are looking for a postdoctoral clinical fellow to apply it to human brain tissue. Interested? Get in touch!

https://www.crick.ac.uk/careers-study/clinical-fellows/postdoctoral-clinical-fellows/positions-postdoctoral-clinical-fellows/specification-and-function-of-neural-circuits

Fancy working in the beautiful city of #amsterdam? In a highly dynamic and collaborative environment? On #translation regulation in #TCells? #immunology

Our #bioinformatician just accepted a position as #assistantprofessor!
#ProudPI !!!

This however also means that we are looking for a #bioinformatician who wants to join us working on an #ERC funded project.

#jobalert.
Contact me if you are interested!

Fixed-term contracts harm research quality

Rahal et al. (2023). Quality research needs good working conditions. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01508-2

#ucurising