Credit: C&EN/ Peter Stang |
My entry: "I went to China to seek great science and future contributors, but all I got was this lousy panda."*
*Intended as a parody of these T-shirts, not casting aspersions on Chinese science/scientists.
1. HELPING CHEMISTS FIND JOBS IN A TOUGH MARKET. 2. TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUALITY OF THE CHEMISTRY JOB MARKET.
Credit: C&EN/ Peter Stang |
What's the job market like for chemists? Dude -- it's always bad.*
How bad is it? How the heck should I know? Quantifying the chemistry job market is what this blog is about. That, and helping chemists find jobs.
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(*For the literal-minded, this is a joke. Mostly.)
Panda: "OMG blue is SO not my colour!!"
ReplyDeleteStang: "Allow me to explain hypervalent iodine chemistry to you using this handy panda puppet"
ReplyDeletePanda: "OK, I'll count to 10 and you go and hide, but you might want to take the blue thing off otherwise this will be too easy"
ReplyDeletePanda just been told what his postdoc salary would be.
ReplyDelete"No, even being cute doesn't stop me from heartlessly rejecting your masterwork from JACS."
ReplyDeleteStang: "I made levulinic acid from sucrose in 20% yield, and I removed all 9 stereocenters in a single step!"
ReplyDeleteI bet the panda does this with everyone. It's been trained to hate the flash. Stang, not so much.
ReplyDeleteThis panda will do what 10 american bears do, at half the price!
ReplyDeleteThe panda sex education video was too graphic for the students.
ReplyDeletePanda: "Oh! Just because panda's are having a tough time, now they decide to lump us in with chemists!?"
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