From the AAAS comes a webinar that you can watch on demand – you need to register but that is a minor inconvenience o the path to a possible new career, eh?
Nontraditional Careers: Opportunities Away From the Bench
Now available on demand
April 28, 2009, 12 noon Eastern; 9 a.m. Pacific; 4 p.m. GMT
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Increasingly, Ph.D.-level scientists are [...]
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watch at your leisure
Posted in alternative careers, career tools on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
bring science to the masses
Posted in alternative careers, events, misc cool stuff, teacher, volunteer opportunities on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toronto is hosting Science Rendezvous this Sat May 9th. It is a festival of science!!
This is one wonderful way to get kids and older people too, interested in science and to see that scientists are not just lab slaves.
Volunteering at such an event can also help scientists or budding scientists see if an outreach [...]
april scientiae – challenges!
Posted in alternative careers, passions, personal story, women on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Overcoming challenges. Being challenged to overcome. This is the topic for April’s edition of Scientiae, and I received an overwhelming response of your varied tales of challenge and triumph. Further proof that all of us are capable of facing our problems head-on and growing into wiser, more competent people.
The carnival is based out of Candid [...]
wandering to a career
Posted in alternative careers, passions, personal story on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a new blog (All my faults are stress related) on Science Blogs from a structural geologist – in her “about me” description she tells of the winding path she took to get to this career:
I became a structural geologist by accident. I meant to study chemistry, but chemists spent too much time inside. [...]
to stay or go…
Posted in alternative careers, decisions, women on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The South African Mail and Guardian Online just published another article on the “leaky pipeline”:
Leaving the lab
JESSICA SHEPHERD – Jan 29 2009
They note that women are still leaving the lab at a rate higher than men:
A study for the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry has found that although 72% of the women surveyed intended [...]
glow in the dark jobs?
Posted in alternative careers, industry on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just kidding! I worked around the nuclear industry and I don’t glow (much)!
Here is a job that might lead to interesting careers:
Sellafield defies gloom by offering 60 jobs for graduates
Last updated 10:58, Tuesday, 16 December 2008
SELLAFIELD bosses are defying the gloom dogging the job market – by launching a recruitment campaign.
The firm responsible for running [...]
contemplating toilets instead of on them…
Posted in alternative careers, industry on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is one job in my “might have beens” – I actually took a tour of an American Standard plant while taking a engineering ceramics course in grad school (back in the dark ages!) – it sure looked interesting! Very cool MASSIVE kilns!
…the modern loo deserves respect; for sophistication, it may not match, say, CERN’s [...]
even twisty roads lead somewhere
Posted in personal story, writer on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Altrenative Scientist has another good personal post. The author began with a dream of becoming an academic but twists and bumps in the road landed her in a writing career. But that doesn’t mean she is far from science – as she puts it:
I am now a scientific writer and editor for a [...]
pr job anyone?
Posted in alternative careers, misc cool stuff on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a hilarious ad for a chromatograph:
A new trend? here are a few more oddities:
PCR Song
epMotion
Perhaps more chemical/equipment companies need some chemists to write songs and ads for them!!
food that tastes good!
Posted in food science on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Years ago, I hated the processed foods that were available – even frozen pizza – because they never tasted like I would cook them myself. Then along came technology and a more savvy consumer!
I remember President’s Choice products (are these available in the US too?) as the first ones that I really liked. Now [...]
