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1. HELPING CHEMISTS FIND JOBS IN A TOUGH MARKET. 2. TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUALITY OF THE CHEMISTRY JOB MARKET.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Is there a "last bastion of making stuff"?

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In his follow-up post to his potential graduate school picks, Chiral Jones asks (regarding total synthesis): Is there a last bastion for t...
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Daily Pump Trap: 11/30/10 edition

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Good morning! Between November 23 and November 29, there were 31 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 19 (61%) of thes...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Help Chiral Jones pick his graduate school

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Chiral Jones is looking  to apply to graduate school in organic chemistry. He's posted a pretty darn comprehensive list of universities ...
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What does a grad student or a postdoc owe their PI?

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Photo credit: wikimedia.org Two weeks ago (remember last week? I don't, either), I asked the question "What is desired from a ch...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Good morning, folks! Things that I'm thankful for: - The health and wellbeing of my family - A wonderful community to live in - Em...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Labs of the Future or, Chemists are Introverts, darnit!

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Lab of the Future, at the Swiss Novartis campus Via Derek Lowe , I see that Novartis is charging ahead with its architectural attempt to...
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Daily Pump Trap: 11/23/10 edition

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Good morning! Between November 18 and November 22, there were 45 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of them, 26 (58%) are acad...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Interview: Kay, chemblogosphere commenter

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Kay is a longtime reader and commenter on the chemblogosphere and I’m pleased that she’s reading and commenting here as well! Kay is a forme...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Your lab horoscope

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How much help (and what kind) in finding a job should PIs give?

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From bullybloggers  Anon201011181220p would like to see "PIs take more interest in the career development of their ...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

What will recovery look like?

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Listening to Rudy Baum and Susan Ainsworth's keynote address at the 2010 ACS Virtual Career Fair , I was struck by a simple question: ho...
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Daily Pump Trap: 11/18/10 edition

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Good morning! Between November 16 and November 17, 9 new positions were posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 4 (44%) were academical...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

"I need to get back in the lab"

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Thanks to James for the inspiration .
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Process Wednesday: aqueous extractions with water-miscible solvents

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Another handy tip from Anderson's Practical Process Research and Development: To rapidly develop extractions of reactions run in water-...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

How long can a bench chemist be away from the bench?

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From zazzle.com I've heard it said that your job skills begin to deteriorate about six months after a layoff. If so, one imagines tha...
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Daily Pump Trap: 11/16/10 edition

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Good morning! Between November 11 and November 15, there were 54 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 27 (50%) are aca...
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Unemployed Ph.D. chemists: Bethany Halford of C&EN wants to hear from you

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Crack C&EN reporter Bethany Halford wants to hear from you about Ph.D. chemist oversupply: I’m working on a story that addresses the q...
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Loyalty: an idea from the past?

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Brian from pharmnbiofuel comments on the last post: My second job lasted almost 8 years in Big Pharma and it seems that now, just like ev...
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Our chemical mercenary future?

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An interesting trend in Susan Ainsworth's Employment Outlook article was the mention of contingent or contract workers: Although job...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Truth in advertising

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