{"id":3714,"date":"2019-03-15T05:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2019-03-15T05:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:42:59","slug":"resource-of-the-week-student-led-initiative-transforming-phd-postdoc-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2019\/03\/15\/resource-of-the-week-student-led-initiative-transforming-phd-postdoc-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: Student-led initiative transforming PhD\/postdoc training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3715\" style=\"width: 564px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nbt.2706\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3715\" class=\" wp-image-3715 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-4-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of figure from paper: comparison of new faculty positions vs granted PhDs. Follow links to view full text.\" width=\"554\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-4-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-4-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-4-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-4.jpg 1083w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of figure from paper: comparison of new faculty positions vs granted PhDs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nbt.2706\">this article<\/a> in\u00a0<em>Nature Biotechnology<\/em>, Maximiliaan Schillebeeckx, Brett Maricque, and Cory Lewis detail:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The limited availability of academic positions vs number of PhDs granted per year;<\/li>\n<li>What a group of PhD students and postdocs at Washington University-St. Louis are doing to expand their training and career options in light of the academic job market.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Broadly, the authors call for grassroots initiatives (including students demanding more diversified training) to couple with top-down calls for the same from major funding agencies (e.g., NIH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article in\u00a0Nature Biotechnology, Maximiliaan Schillebeeckx, Brett Maricque, and Cory Lewis detail: The limited availability of academic positions vs number of PhDs granted per year; What a group of PhD students and postdocs at Washington University-St. Louis are doing to expand their training and career options in light of the academic job market. Broadly, the authors call for grassroots&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":3715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,15,16],"tags":[43,53,58,81,87,113,114,115,117,150],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers-beyond-academia","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","tag-advancing-science-communication","tag-blog-post","tag-careers-beyond-academia","tag-handy-links","tag-inspiration","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm","tag-transition-to-scicomm-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}