📢 We're looking for a new colleague in #Cybersecurity to join us at #UniBayreuth on a tenure track position! 🤩Deadline September 30. Please share. Details here: https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/junior-professor-of-cybersecurity-salary-grade-w1-with-tenure-track-to-w3-cb59c2f254e1f6b6
#professorship #tenuretrack #security #privacy #cryptography #forensics

Assistant/Associate Professor in Molecular, Cellular or Systems Biology

https://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positions/detail/assistant-associate-professor-in-molecular-cellular-or-systems-biology

@biozentrum @UniBasel_en
#Biozentrum #Basel #research #science #professorship

TENURED #PROFESSORSHIP ON BOTANY, DENDROLOGY, AND PLANT ECOLOGY IN #Germany

Please help us find a suitable German- and English-speaking candidate! Link below👇

https://stellenbewerbung.hnee.de/jobposting/950ca4890cf3a46f597550097fe58d7579d4d99f0?ref=homepage

@academicchatter

University of Goettingen offers a tenured full #professorship on Molecular Stress Physiology of #Plants (succession of Prof. C. Gatz). Spread the news! (via Volker Lipka)
https://uni-goettingen.de/en/676558.html
https://uni-goettingen.de/de/676558.html
#plantscijobs #plantsci #plantscience

New article in #Scientometrics explores the effects of #Ukraine policy reform on the professors' publication behaviour:

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04753-y

The increase in output after 🇺🇦 academics were awarded the title of professor involved a significant growth in book chapters (+ 170.4%), conference papers (+ 93.7%) and only a slight increase in articles and reviews (+ 12.7%).

#research #policy #evaluation #professorship #academia

On #research, and #dreams, and what I do all day.

Nearly all of my work consists of using absolutely standard #bioinformatics and #biostatistics techniques. These methods were long ago worked out in excruciating detail by people much more knowledgeable in their subspecialties than I’ll ever be. Although I grumble about the quality of #scientific #software (and there’s a lot to grumble about) I almost always use mostly-reliable packages rather than writing my own. There are only so many hours in a day, days in a year, and years in a career.

The truth is, that’s the way most #science jobs are, at least in #biology and #medicine—I’m honestly not sure about others. #Methodological research, working out entirely new ways to do things, is largely a privilege of dewy-eyed grad students and slightly more cynical but still idealistic postdocs. #Faculty get to do some, but less the higher up the food chain they get: full #professorship is at least half administration and half overseeing other people’s research and half #grantwriting, and if you’re thinking that’s one too many halves, you’re right. There are probably a couple of other halves in there I don’t even know about.

#Industry scientists like me? The #PhD is an entry-level qualification. We’re not paid to come up with new ways to do things better. We’re paid to use old ways to do things faster. Ultimately, the goal is something new, sure, usually a new #drug for a particular #disease. The process of making that happen is a bunch of painstaking and carefully programmed steps. There’s about as much room for creativity as there was when I was in the service—which BTW is more than people often assume, but with pretty sharp limits. And almost always, the clock is ticking. Loudly.

This may all sound kind of bitter. Yes, there’s some bitterness, but I know I have plenty of company.

No one goes into science for the money or the prestige: without any false modesty at all, I can say that anyone who is capable of becoming a #scientist is capable of doing lots of other things too, and most of those things pay better and get more respect. We start our long and winding road because we see, or think we see, something at the heart of reality no one else has seen before. We think we can bring that into the light and show it to the world. We can make a difference. We believe.

Eventually we come around. It’s not just an adventure, it’s a job.

My point—I swear I have one—is that we grumble about this, and think back wistfully to the days when we could sink into one project, and recall with tolerant amusement our conviction that we alone could reveal the Truth unto the world … and mostly accept it. Do the work, be the cog in the machine, and small-t truth will be revealed. Not just by us alone, no. By us and by everyone who came before us in the chain and everyone after, and a year or five or twenty down the line, someone who would have died will live. They’ll never know our names, and we’ll never know theirs. It’s okay.

And every once in a while, in the middle of this daily grind, we realize that what we have to do to solve this particular problem, get at this particular small truth, no one else has ever done.

So we do it.

We do it, and go back to the grind. Nobody else may ever know we did it. If they do, it will probably be buried in the methods section of a multi-author article in a mid-tier journal. If ten people in the world ever read it, we’ll be pleasantly surprised. A citation, and we’ll be over the moon. And there’s no guarantee of even that much. Locked away in a tech report gathering e-dust, just as likely.

But we know. And sometimes we dream again, for a little while.

Well the first draft of my #PhD #dissertation has been handed in! I have a feeling this is all going to happen at the speed of light. I'd really like to know what to expect! SO...

#Academics of mastodon: How fast was the transition between submitting the first draft of your dissertation and starting your #postdoc or #professorship ?.

The department of Public Health at Purdue University is hiring for a senior (tenure eligible) position (Associate or Full Professor). I am not affiliated with the department but I am selfishly interested in encouraging people to apply, especially those who work in epidemiology, environmental health, and/or anything related to noise pollution.

#AcademicJob
#Professorship
#PublicHealth
#Epidemiology
#EnvironmentalNoise
#Toxicology

https://careers.purdue.edu/job-invite/22688/