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I know post-docs who continually get called 'students' - even by university staff!
Some Kind of Recognition Candid Engineer 2009
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My experience in Vancouver has been different because, for the first time in my life, the majority of my friends are not students and post-docs.
Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009
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From the standpoint of a post-doc, it means "transitions post-docs into faculty positions in which they thrive".
Variety is the Spice of Life Candid Engineer 2009
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Also, I * have* heard of badly treated (and essentially laid off) graduate students, post-docs, lecturers and adjuct-professors
Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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According to a former colleague I meet when we where both post-docs, China already does the sorting.
Matthew Yglesias » What Really Matters in Higher Education 2010
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Every field has hugely "productive" senior faculty who only publish in C/N/S, but whose post-docs * never* successfully achieve independence.
Variety is the Spice of Life Candid Engineer 2009
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Working with two post-docs at NASA Ames, I was able to demonstrate in 2006 that when we apply moderate stress to one end of a block of granite about 20 feet in length, we could draw an electric current from the other end.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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Working with two post-docs at NASA Ames, I was able to demonstrate in 2006 that when we apply moderate stress to one end of a block of granite about 20 feet in length, we could draw an electric current from the other end.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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The other post-docs in your lab would be willing to allow some unpleasant person into your lab without speaking up.
When Your Opinion Counts Candid Engineer 2009
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While there have always been post-docs in Computing, I am pretty sure there are more.
Professionalization of Academia « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010
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