"I can't be bought by anyone": Malcolm Turnbull continues attack on Bill Shorten.

FlaviusValerius · 2017-02-09T04:52:16+00:00

shorten? or turnbull?

FlaviusValerius · 2017-01-24T05:05:42+00:00

Ayyyyy gahhhhrrr

FlaviusValerius · 2017-01-17T00:59:10+00:00

and many people seem to gloss over the fact that julia gillard was the one who pushed australia into it.

FlaviusValerius · 2017-01-12T02:36:32+00:00

well obviously i'd recommend actually finding competent help, it's out there.

FlaviusValerius · 2017-01-12T00:28:58+00:00

look; when i went for unemployment benefits straight out of undergrad, the government made me go to job seeking sessions with a counsellor. These things were rigged to get people positions as garbage collectors, or at macdonalds etc. likewise it was pretty depressing.

I ended up cancelling my benefits because it was just counterproductive and not even that much money, and then i got a part time job in a pharmacy and then used my spare time to get a job as a research assistant.

There are great jobs out there for middle ground positions.

I know a few people in my area that have degrees and or masters degrees that work for a company that is contracted by the government to choose where funding goes, there are companies that like to have a good connection to basic science; loreal paris has to assign fellowships for women in science and they directly employ scientists, pernod ricard allocates funding to beverage science, they need science educated people to help with that. There are lots of middle ground jobs that will utilise a scientific education in the field of biology, you just have to try and find them and that's the tricky part.

However keep in mind, a) I know a guy who is essentially on a permanent contract who is on the autistic spectrum and works as a scientist and b) i'm pretty sure that there are a LOT of high up scientists who are on the autistic spectrum but haven't been diagonsed. good luck, you'll gind something wonderful

FlaviusValerius · 2017-01-07T08:12:37+00:00

I think as long as you have evidence of a scientific degree, you'd probably benefit more from an MBA or an MD. If you're going for the MBA route, remember it's not about actually having an MBA, it's about what brand you're going to put on yourself and what alumnus network you will be able to exploit ie, an MBA is only worth the wanky university name attached to it.

I reckon of the higher ups in biotech and synthetic biology companies that i've met, about half have PhDs

FlaviusValerius · 2017-01-07T06:41:54+00:00

then why commit to a PhD?

FlaviusValerius · 2017-01-03T04:40:39+00:00

in my experience Australian and European researchers who move to the USA find the standard of life, the medical care, etc etc etc very poor. I reckon you should consider Europe very seriously, and also I think if you're planning on working in medical research you should also very seriously consider studying medicine, not a PhD, or if someone will pay for it an MD/PhD.

The reason; when I worked at a top university in the UK, we had a principle investigator who had done two postdocs, a PhD, a masters degree and had many publications, who was getting the same as a medical student who was working towards her PhD. The medical student had nothing but a medical degree and two years of clinical experience. But because 'medical doctors are accustomed to a certain lifestyle' (verbatim what was sent as a part of a reply to a letter asking for an explanation about what looks like a disparity), the student was indeed paid the same as a research scientist with considerably more responsibility.

There are similar stories in other countries and at other institutions i've heard about (I spoke to the head of one of the major medical research institutes here once I returned home and discussed with him the potential for working at his lab, he confirmed it was similar though less pronounced in this country).

A good friend of mine did his PhD, and rather than do a postdoc has opted for medschool so he can be a significantly better paid medical researcher.

So having said all this, i'd consider it very seriously. And also take US med degrees with a grain of salt. There is such a glut of medical doctors, that the ones with degrees that aren't from ivy league universities are likely to end up as small town GPs which is fine if that's what you want.

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-28T09:57:44+00:00

honestly Id consider getting a medical degree from continental europe... it will open WAY more doors for you than just another PhD graduate.

edit: and would cost considerably less than the same in USA, would be a mark of competence and difference on your CV, and would be a wonderful life experience, and would take about the same time as a US PhD does.

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-28T09:13:13+00:00

as someone who has done it with success multiple times before; it's exactly the same. in fact monster will let you change your location.

this information is SO easy to come by.

In fact if you're working in the biology domain I'd be quite surprised if you expect to get success and you're only applying in the one town that you live, well, good luck with that but it's very much likely you'll find it incredibly hard and ultimately your choice will be significantly stymied by your requirement to stay in kingston upon thames or nelly upon sea or winslowbottomlyforthingtons or which ever town you expect to find your dream job as a professor in fluid mechanics of protein folding in negative phase lipids.

furthermore, if you find a secondary job, like whatever it is you have done in the meantime outside your main research job, bar work, coffee making, sweeping rooms, tutoring, whatever, you can always find enough money to make do in another european country to tide yourself over until you CAN find a job, which is what I did when i first moved overseas.

THEN, there are tons of website for people such as /u/batterynotincluded such as euraxis and many many european fellowships that would cater for people looking for mobility outside their home countries.

the world is your oyster, try and profit from it man!

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-20T03:43:40+00:00

god damn man, leave the UK, anywhere else you'll get more money.

man if you move to australia and work in the public health sector you'll be swimming in the moolah

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-20T03:42:34+00:00

what's your objective for getting a PhD out of curiosity?

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-20T02:55:49+00:00

I applied for a stack of fellowships and didn't get any of them, I had four papers, two first author, and two in press, and nothing! although most of the jobs I applied for I had pretty good success (and ended getting one that pays significantly more than the average postdoc anyway)

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-20T00:29:35+00:00

two publications was enough to get an EMBO fellowship!? that seems quite low. Do you think it was lucky? I realise without a context two might be a lot or very few, i suppose i'm asking from a molecular biology perspective two (plus four) sounds like few.

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-20T00:27:45+00:00

god the HSFP made me so angry. As a non-european looking to establish long standing bilateral research connections between my country and the country where I studied for two years of my PhD based on meaningful and productive collaborations I had while I was over there and over here, I am not allowed to apply to postdoc in that country because I've spent two years there. Absolutely ridiculous rules for someone who can actually generate meaningful collaboration. Not important - I now have a stellar postdoc which is already very productive and I'll probably be very competitive for any number of second postdoc funds.

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-20T00:15:13+00:00

consider working in a lab that doesn't work on mice

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-15T00:30:21+00:00

our state doesn't condone marrying bottles of wine, they call it unnatural.

anyway search for verre des poetes by domaine montrieux, by emile hederia c'est genial

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-14T02:22:05+00:00

whites whites whites!

I LUUURVE the reds from the loire, coteaux vendomois, pineau d'aunis is a wine I would literally marry but it's illegal in my state

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-06T06:34:38+00:00

I'm not sure exactly what is in my own flatus, but i'm quite sure it's full of toxic sulfurous compounds that are likely terrible for the environment and my bedspread.

interesting info.

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-06T04:08:32+00:00

you can't seriously believe each molecule of carbon we release is recycled back into the carbon cycle, methane alone must account for a reasonably high amount of gas out of the human population.

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-06T02:12:06+00:00

I don't understand how what you've said

CO2 in breath comes out of the carbon cycle of the biosphere, not out of the ground,

relates to your conclusion

so it contributes nothing to greenhouse gas buildup.

It would depend on net totals wouldn't it? Are you saying the net result of agriculture and human activity is a net total towards carbon fixation? or carbon release into the atmosphere?

the thing with a lot of this, is the devil is in the tiny percentages, and there are a lot of humans, and I'm not neccessarily sure the carbon would go back into the carbon cycle.

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-05T22:52:40+00:00

work in a zoo, or for a big multinational drinks company like pernod ricard, bridging science and visits to glamorous wineries around the world.

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-05T22:50:05+00:00

what is the average greenhouse emission from human physical activity? how much does human breath contributes to greenhouse gas buildup?

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-01T06:18:53+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ

FlaviusValerius · 2016-12-01T05:21:41+00:00

intercity train speed isn't necessarily an issue. the trains we have could do a trip say, newcastle to sydney in an hour, the steam train that did the same trip in 1960's (the 3801) did it in two hours flat. The current trip is either 3h15 or 3h45.

it's the fact that there are a) no expresses and b) ridiculously slow speeds over mount white since there was a train accident there and c) very very slow speeds over certain crossings and through residential areas that were built after the train line then complained about the noise

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