Ex Lab has moved

To its very own domain name:

http://exlaboratorio.com/

Thanks for visiting!

Scientific American critiques the American scientist-production-system

In a February 22 “draft” article for Scientific American, Beryl Lieff Benderly asks “Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?” Or, more specifically, should the U.S. foster increasing recruitment of students into research science? She concludes that the perception of a science labor shortage is generated internally by an academic system that runs on student and postdoc labor.

Protected: Erin Jezuit: Sabbatical Replacement, Knox College

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password:

Scientists, in vivo

Professors beget more PhD’s than can hope to succeed to tenured positions. Although science offers career alternatives in industry and government research that the arts and humanities lack, it is not immune to the problem. Science may be a worse offender, given the reliance of senior scientists on graduate students and junior associates to accomplish the bulk of the labor necessary for success. 55,962 persons earned doctorates in the U.S. in the 2007-2008 academic year, 6,749 of them in my field, the ‘biological and agricultural sciences’. How many senior research positions exist in academia, industry and government, and at what rates do they expand and turn over?