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Wracam. Nie wiem na jak długo ale zawsze. Zresztą można raczej powiedzieć iż oto postanowiłem pisać inaczej i o nieco odmiennej tematyce. Co prawda na starym blogu, lecz komu to przeszkadza... Może od początku gdyż wątpię by moi starzy czytelnicy tu wrócili a z kolei ci co tu trafią nie będą wiedzieć o co tu w ogóle kaman. A mianowicie. Stary blog zacząłem pisać bodajże w 2007 bedąc jeszcze

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Here, I allowed myself to copy a great resource for people thinking of doing science in Deutschland!! BAT and TV Salary Scale Most doctoral student positions in Germany are advertised as TV-L 13, or sometimes still as BAT IIa or BAT IIa/2. What is that? Here's a quick reference: General TV (or TVÖD) stands for Tarifvertrag im Öffentlichen Dienst while BAT stands for

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Oh I want to add one more thing related to my last post. LAST CHANCE! Take The Scientist's 2010 Salary SurveyHow does your salary compare to others in your field of life science? By contributing to The Scientist's 8th Annual Salary Survey for life scientists you're helping to create powerful data that you can leverage during your next review or as you negotiate compensation for your next career

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My 2007 July and August posts were very substantial and content related (oh yes :). There is an ample info on  wages, visas and paper reviewing. Have a look to them, they still might be very helpful. Let's come back to that a little. Here's my situation. I should probably be super happy but apparently... not so much. First postdoc and paycheck for $40,000 annually. Is it decent? You could

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:) I'm enjoying my come back to the blog (it's gonna last 2 weeks probably). So just a little update. Not even one year ago I have started my second postdoc (yay) with high hopes and expectations. I must admit that this changes brought me back to life, at least for a few months. I was really downgrading at my former lab. I had no motivation, nobody pushed me so getting lazy, mentoring

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Kary Mullis got a Noble price for PCR invention. There is a story that he was enlightened and saw the whole process while on LSD trip. Allegedly he was able to ride the polymerase and amplify the DNA fragments... maybe he was who knows ;)  Now he claims he's about to replace antibiotics therapy with a more efficient strategy based on developing DNA aptamers that would be able to easily recognize

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Still amazes me that there are people out there not taking evolution for granted and sooo many of them here in US. I also find it sad that Richard Dawkins has to continue with this hopeless crusade and not much seems to change. He's very dedicated though and made it a point of his life I guess. I admire the devotion but would never do it myself. Why bother? I guess I always have been more on the

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I have just decided that maybe I can throw something in here from time to time again. I will write more about my hiatus with this blog later. For now it's gonna be more in the form of publishing interesting scientific news with a little comment of mine. For start breaking news from UW!! Dr. Splitter kicked out of the lab cause his postdoc and grad had been working on Brucella without permission.

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Most of my posts are depressive, dripping with bitter sarcasm and irony but they don't have to be, right? It's a beautiful, sunny day Today, I'm full of energy, life is great and therefore I decided to write a positive, edifying note! Otherwise it gets boring and I run out of the stories (how many bad things can happen to you after all?)Ok, then - let me tell you about my thanksgiving trip to "

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At least to me it is when somebody else publish your work or something really similar a month ahead of you and you're screwed. Your 3 years of work can go straight to the bin (or to the journal with the impact factor of 1.5, which makes it more or less equal). Once in my career I managed to avoid that, which was a pure luck. We were way behind the most established group in the field and we knew

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An update on my animal model poll. Fish is leading the race but frog is not far behind. As the third comes mouse, still with chances of catching up and far at the end - fly is crawling. Looks like drospohila is giving up... You still have 283 days to vote so no hurry, take your time and cast a well thought-over vote ;) Of course, I'd like to thank everybody that has already voted from the depths

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oh man I'm tired with this life...I come to the lab, in situs not exactly the way they supposed to be (for the third time), will have to re-do them again - next three days of work, bleeeeFunny I have dozens of in situ pics of those genes but I don't have a complete set and each time you take pictures they differ slightly from the previous ones so it has to be done at one time, otherwise you've

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I'm in the process of assembling my amazon book list and I started to place them on the website especially dedicated for this purpose. I decided that my first category will concern evolution and religion issues. I believe it is one of the most important (if not the most) subject in the world of science and whole world in general, as religion has a tremendous power and the influence on human

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In this post I'll discuss some of the concerns PhD students, post-doc and other foreign scientist may have when coming to states with a J1 visa status (and most post-docs are).I should probably start with a humiliating trip to the american embassy, which everyone of us, J1 guys, needs to take in the first place. In my country there is always a huge crowd billowing under the mighty gates of

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In the latest Nature issue i've spotted extremely interesting article where we can appreciate the statistics on the number of post-docs and tenure track positions over last 16 years. Believe me it doesn't look good! Pay attention especially to the very last paragraph - I have exactly the same opinion! However, I haven't done much about it yet ;) But i'll, one day... i promiseYou can download pdf

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Hello again. I see my blog is getting popular. That is really edifying. I love you ;)This only means that there are hundreds of people like me out there and we all think the same way. So let's laugh about it together. Today we'll laugh about the post-doc and PhD students salaries in Europe. I'll come to Asia and Australia later and probably I'll skip the South America (not talking about Africa)

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I'm not even sure where to start here with this subject. Perhaps I should leave it blank as when I think of it I feel blood rushing to my head. Think a moment, post-doc in life science is a highly educated, very specialized individual and it is obvious that the more specialized you are, the more unique you are - and so you should get paid more for your services. This is what happens usually in

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As I consider myself generally a good person I decided to share with you our most essential lab protocols. These protocols are most suitable for a developmental biology lab, however some of them can be applied somewhere else too. Furthermore, they are dedicated to one organism in particular. If you download the protocols, you surely will be able to vote right in my poll :) (if you hadn't already.

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First, I'll show you the rebuttal letter written as a response to the arguments and accusations of the editor and the reviewers. I think letter is very solid and makes a good points. They've sent the letter and they waited. Paper went under the review again so they thought it is a good sign and perhaps third reviewer was asked...Here is the letter:Dear Dr. Bastard,I am writing to you following

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As I have already mentioned, publishing is THE most important thing in our stinky scientific world. I would like to show you now one real example how you can be screwed by reviewers and editors, despite the fact that you know that your work is legitimate and brings new findings to the public (well you'll have to trust me on that one for now - I'll show you the paper once it gets accepted

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Other thing is that when you start you don't know shit, you have no idea in fact what kind of lab, project, PI you're choosing. So it might be an accurate shot but not necessarily. I know so many people that have chosen labs that were supposedly great and they finished their PhD not publishing a single paper as a bundle of nerves.You only realize with time on your 3rd, 4th year (well eg. in

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Let me start this discussion as it is indeed an interesting topic. Let me tell you how my attitude and way of thinking evolved during 10 years of wet lab work.They say that beginnings are always hard and perhaps it is somewhat true but they were also great in my perspective. You enter completely new and exciting world. You are being lured by the stories of old professors how all this research is

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Hey there all miserable PhD students, post-docs, research associates, professor assistants, associates, and professors themselves if any would wander here around somehow.I am one of you so I know what this is about and how shitty this job can be. I have to admit here honestly that I'm getting more and more tired with all these 'science' we do and have to live with nowadays. So to rise up my mood

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