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Some small and useful things this morning:- Wavefunction's account of the R.B. Woodward symposium at the Boston ACS is excellent. - Check out this interview with PhD Comics' Jorge Cham that Leigh Boerner conducted -- very winning. - Liberal Arts...
Industrial positions (non-academic, non-governmental):Total number of ads: 0- Postdocs: 0- Permanent positions: 1- Ratio of US/non-US: 0Area: 67 sq. cm. Governmental positions (US, international):Total number of ads: 0- Postdocs: 1+- Permanent positions: 1-...
Good morning! From August 30 to August 31, there were 16 new positions on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 4 (25%) are academically connected and 2 (13%) are from our friends at Kelly Scientific Resources. Football!: Wildcat Discovery Technologies is a battery...
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Because sometimes the facts about chemical employment just aren't very fun. But this is!My Favorite Things about Chemistry (by CJ)1. A chromatography column that works well.2. The treasure trove of literature, filled with truth, (a few) lies and idiosyncrasies...
linked to by 2Beryl Lieff Benderly is apparently a science writer of some repute; she writes the "Taken for Granted" column of ScienceCareers. While most of her work seems pretty harmless, her recent article on the Science Careers website about the UCLA / Sheri Sangji case...
linked to by 1Chart by Chemjobber. Photo credit: Thomas KlapoetkeWhile I believe that the graduate student in the Texas Tech case bears the lion's share of the responsibility (and agree with Sam that he should have been removed), it's worth looking at the institutional...
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This week saw lots of great discussion on the Texas Tech explosion. Chemjobber’s newest post on the mattertalks abouthow much the PI is to blame and links to Jyllian Kemsley’s article on safety practices in explosives research. (That article was...
ChemBark and ChemJobber both have posts up this morning commenting on the Texas Tech incident. I’d like to jump off from something in the ChemBark post:I bet anyone whos worked in a lab has encountered at least one coworker whose inattention to safety...
That’s an incredibly broad question I have up in my subject line, there. But it’s not my own. I’ve paraphrased one of the questions that folks have submitted at the survey I’ve set up so the chemblogging panel I’m moderating can...
