Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

Dear PI s, and senior scientists' involved in recruitment, Why do so many (especially postdoc) positions these days indicate: > Readiness for high workload > able to work independently but also effectively and collaboratively with > other lab member > Candidates should have a documented public

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

Dear Markus, thank you for opening this discussion. I'd like to add that in some countries, like France, where I work, this goes often along with with 12 months contracts. Imagine moving continent, eventually with family (yes, PostDocs happen to have a family) just for a 12 months contract, un

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

Dear Gerlind, Markus, All: Well, sometimes the (written) promise of a 2-year contract also ends up boiling down systematically (for some PIs) to only a 6-month contract after all.--And that after you've spent half a year or more and multiple trips to the country concerned trying to get a work visa

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

Worth discussion although may be impossible to fix. My 2 cents: Standard contracts here seem to be for 1 year, but I've always worked on the assumption that the contract will be renewed unless post-doc and PI have "irreconcilable differences" or there is an unforeseen funding shortfall. Then aga

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

For me as hiring PI, what's repeatedly dismaying is that it's our funders and universities that set the terms, and only with extreme creativity can one shift the dial, and only on indidual recruitments, certainly not the high politics of the system as a whole. No, I don't know what will break

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

It is a long time since I had any practical concerns with this issue, but some funding bodies are more flexible than others. Welcome gives project grants then leaves it up to the recipient to hire and plan. And I guess the big research institutes like the crick and lmb have similar systems. It is o

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

Academia, one of the only careers where _success_ is rewarded with perpetual impending employment every two+ years. Nick On 22 Jan 2021, at 08:25, Eleanor Dodson <176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: It is a long time sinc

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:54 AM Pearce, N.M. (Nick) wrote: > Academia, one of the only careers where _success_ is rewarded with > perpetual impending employment every two+ years. > > Which translates "If you do your work well, you will get more .." Jan > Nick > > On 22 Jan 2021, at 08:25,

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

Meant to write “perpetual impending unemployment”. Thanks, Nick On 22 Jan 2021, at 11:02, Jan Dohnalek wrote:  On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:54 AM Pearce, N.M. (Nick) mailto:n.m.pea...@uu.nl>> wrote: Academia, one of the only careers where _success_ is rewarded with perpetual impending employme

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

"If you do your work well, you will get more ..” Is a nice ideal, but I don’t think it factors in the real-life factors such as administrative burden (i.e. wasted time), mental-health effects and frankly, random chance. Does anyone enjoy applying for grants/jobs? Does it improve their lives/prod

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

Perhaps I should have finished that sentence. I meant "If you do your work well, you will get more work” Yes, ideal: "If you trust me (director/uni/government/grant provider ...whoever gives the funds) give me space, money AND infrastructure, i.e. good admin! including, for 5 or 10 years

Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

Dear all, There are two separate issues at hand: 1. the hints towards heavy work load, perhaps the contradiction between independence and team work, etc, are thing you can sort out if the actual job interests you. These might be phrases that ended up there out of inexperience or due to a bad t

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics

the translation is, of course, fake. jon Von: CCP4 bulletin board Im Auftrag von Jan Dohnalek Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Januar 2021 11:02 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] Open position - data management in biophysics On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:54 AM Pearce, N.M. (Nick