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The Importance of Elections in Scientific Societies (including ASCB)

April 10, 2015
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The opinions presented in this piece represent the authors’ opinions and do not reflect either COMPASS or ASCB official opinions.…

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Postdocs Driving Change: The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Meeting 2015

March 27, 2015
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Attendees of the 2015 National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) meeting at the University of Maryland in Baltimore noted something different compared…

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Put Your PhD/Postdoc Where Your Mouth Is

March 3, 2015
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Let’s get the obvious out of the way. The academic research system is broken, particularly for young scientists like us…

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Outreach Grants Will Promote Basic Science from Galway to San Quentin Prison

September 25, 2014

Inmate-college students at San Quentin Prison will soon have microscopes for their biology lab through an ASCB Outreach Grant, offered by…

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How Competitive Should Science Be?

August 29, 2014
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Duncker, Karl (1945). On Problem Solving, Psychological Monographs, 58, American Psychological Association OCLC: 9687931Intense competition in the biomedical sciences has…

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Microbes, bubbles, and poop: the wonders of microscopic life in the eyes of children

May 16, 2014
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The USA Science and Engineering Festival is more than a science fair on steroids, it is a whole different level…

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Where Will A Biology PhD Take You?

April 11, 2014
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Based primarily on the 2012 NIH Workforce report this infographic represents current workforce sizes and annual fluxes before and after…

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MAC – E.E. Just Lectureship 2013

February 4, 2014

Biographical Sketch – J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, 2013 Garcia-Martinez is a professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology in the Center for…

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Meet COMPASS

December 27, 2013
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Working with faceless beings hidden inside my computer for more than six months was surprisingly easy and productive. Yeah, at…

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Say ‘No’ to the Impact Factor

June 11, 2013
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“For the sake of science, the emphasis [on the impact factor] needs to change.” Randy Schekman & Mark Patterson (1).…

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