The babies had it right the first time.
All tagged postdocpartum
#13: Leftover
Wait, where did everyone go?
#12: Post-postdoc
The postdoc has come and nearly gone: what now? Onward, into the post-postdoc era …
PostdocPartum #11: Curriculum Mortis
If you want to see success, prepare to fail. Also, Latin is hard.
PostdocPartum #10: Luck
The frequently missing message in application rejections and why experienced researchers regard the rate of acceptance as a random probability instead of a merit-based probability.
PostdocPartum #9: Master apprentice
A student learns what the teacher knows; a teacher learns what he doesn't.
PostdocPartum #8: Moving on north
After three moves in my first six months in Norway, my nomadic postdoc living situation has been settling for the past six months.
PostdocPartum #7: Today is the first day of the rest of my life
The entire journey of my life has thus far been delayed gratification. Now what?
PostdocPartum #6: 24th Geilo Physics School (2017)
The coalescence of scientific, social, and physical activities is the central tenet behind the Geilo Physics School.
PostdocPartum #5: Prize-Winning
The Norwegian Centre for Neutron Research kicks off with a contest.
PostdocPartum #4: 2017
Three weeks down, forty-nine to go.
PostdocPartum #3: Disaster never rests
"Permitteringer" was a Norwegian word I did not expect to learn so quickly.
PostdocPartum #2: Viral voices
One of the best discoveries on the internet is finding something that speaks to you and for you, when you can't find the words or pictures yourself.
PostdocPartum #1: One month
It's been about one month in Norway (and there are 29 more to go).
PostdocPartum #0.5: Apprehensive optimism
This feeling of déjà vu reminds me of how I felt the summer before starting the PhD program. Now that same feeling of ambitious, daydream-esque optimism is creeping in again with the postdoc.
PostdocPartum #0: Prologue
By March of 2016, everyone I know who graduated with me in December had found a full-time job.