Exhausted. But #phdone! Thank you to Dr Shafa Waters and Serdar Kuyucak for their supervision and Poker Chen and Jeff Setiadi for their tutelage.

GEO’s Bargaining Committee is extremely pleased to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement on our next contract! Details here: geouaw.org/bargaining-ten… #UMassWorksBecauseWeDo #UMassAmherst #GoUMass

A lot of chatter these past few weeks on here regarding postdocs and what they are/aren't expecting from academic training these days. Our president @fatu_sn joining Beronda L. Montgomery--@BerondaM at BSky and Maria Lund Dahlberg challenging academic leadership to institutionalize intentional mentorship practices.

Join ASBMB public affairs for #NPAW22 on Sept. 21 for “Postdoc town hall: Policy changes for improving work–life balance.” Your experiences will help ASBMB & nationalpostdoc advocate for improvements to postdoctoral training policies. Register (free): asbmb.org/meetings-event….

Have you struggled to find work-life balance during your postdoc? Join us for our town hall next week to learn and discuss how to improve policies in your labs, institutions and even nationwide!! 👇👇👇

Happening this week!

Postdocs, you deserve livable wages, intentional career development, and healthy, inclusive training environments. You shouldn't have to demand this from a dept that should already be providing these things. Where you do need to, there is power in collective, coordinated action

We are incredibly excited to announce that Alejandra Villegas has joined our board of directors! Ale Villegas Lopez is a strong advocate for ECR unions and wants to unclog and reimagine the postdoc -> PI funnel, so she fits right in! Welcome aboard!

We would love to formally welcome Amrita Iyer to our board of directors! Amrita is a science writer at Tempus Labs Inc and is passionate about improving the (scientific) lives of international ECRs. We are super excited to have you join us, Amrita!

We are thrilled to announce our latest addition to the board of directors: Shawn Hallett! Shawn is a PhD and Doctor of Dental Surgery student at the University of Michigan and wants to improve how ECRs are mentored. Welcome to the team, Shawn Hallett!

Unfortunately harassment is still far a too common occurrence for ECRs. Here are a few good tips in case you find yourself in a toxic situation:

To finish of our week of welcomes to our fantastic incoming board members, we want to welcome Sejal Davla to the FoR family! Sejal wants to leverage her data analysis skils to break down systemic barriers FoR the next generation(s) of scientists. Welcome aboard, Sejal!

Would any Hanna Gray fellows want to share their application materials with me? 🌝

In honor of #MayDay, we invited union organizer @danny_doucette to share his perspective from the frontlines on how unions protect graduate students. Read the first hand account here and stay tuned for more to come from the FoR Labor Task Force. shorturl.at/GIPT0

For #MayDay, our fantastic #labor task force joined forces with Danny Doucette to bust through some of the myths that exist about unionizing in #academia.

"More than the financial burden, what administrations seem to fear most from unionization campaigns is a loss of control over grad students as affordable academic labor." Future of Research's latest blog post is quite the read! Academic Chatter™ #phdlife #phdvoice eLife Community