Все что, надо знать о науке в родной Гермащке
Пишет Миша Вербицкий Nature:
In Germany, where hiring slowdowns and freezes at universities are less common, the last few months have been a time for reflection and rethinking. Cecile Petit, a molecular biologist and the postdoctoral representative at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, has been reaching out during the months of lockdown to remind fellow postdocs that they have options beyond academia. “Maybe [the pandemic] will actually help them,” she says. If they decide now to head to industry, they won’t spend ten years doing postdocs only to find that there are no permanent academic positions in sight, she adds.
Petit, who is approaching the last year of her postdoctoral contract, says that she realized academia wasn’t for her before she even finished her PhD in 2018 at the University of Toledo in Ohio. She says that she was discouraged by the numbers: too many postdocs were vying for too few tenure-track positions, leaving many trapped for years in dead-end posts. The pandemic and the resulting economic downturn have only strengthened her convictions, and she doesn’t think she’s alone. “Postdocs and PhD students are realizing that they don’t stand a chance” in academia, she says, “even more so now.”
Причем все так и есть: немецких университетов надо избегать, как чумы
