@tetracycloide: Not sure if you really read my comment or thought through yours.

@antonchigurh: But not because he couldn't have digested it if he'd wanted to.

@♠ Final ♠: So, like most fungi, he grew on you ?

@ZanipoloLebron: More specifically what's needed is a postdoc union.

@BioLady: Same goes for you, Youngling, scroll down and read the thread under DRaGZ's comment, there's hope. PhD time is good time.

One silver bullet for this problem would be a federal law requiring a certain ratio of tenure track positions to postdocs and graduate students for universities to remain eligible for federal research funding. No messing with state laws or the inner rules of private universities. You'd just give them the choice: you…

@Feak: Naw, scroll down first and read the thread under DRaGZ's comment

@Feak: Naw, scroll down first and read the thread under DRaGZ's comment

@DRaGZ: It is correct that publications are the hard currency that determines success in academia. But you don't have to have them at the beginning of your PhD program. You'll need them to graduate and then for every step of the ladder after that. But not in the beginning. Poster is fine in the beginning.

@DRaGZ: Don't worry too much, though. The article (or at least the half that I've read so far) is very correct, unfortunately. But the problem starts after the PhD, for the most part, and for those who have their hearts set on staying in academia. While that is a shame/outrage (and bad for the US) it should not keep…

Man who catch fly with tweezer - accomplish anything

@モツ: Ah, pretty.

@33rd°: In black and white it looks even more like a steampunk space dreadnought.

@モツ: So do tell, what is it we are looking at instead ?

@Seamus McClernan: Holy Theory of Critical Opalescence! - they used the Einstein Tower on one of their covers?!

@dgkz0idberg: Not sure that that was necessarily meant in a racist way - it does sound exactly like "Kakao", hot chocolade in German. So maybe that person was really just making fun of an uncommon name?

@CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): They're certain to grow on you

@8x10: "That's what she said" ?

@Roklimber: I always assumed that that's how sushi got started in the first place

I would love to have a ship like the Calypso