One of the ambitions of the National Platform Open Science is to support researchers in the open science transition. We hereby kindly ask you to help us with that!   The National Platform is setting up a registry of speakers on its website www.openscience.nl to spread knowledge and experiences in the field of open science. Read More …

The Vox magazine wrote an article on the new Vidi policy and its consequences for employment: https://www.voxweb.nl/international/still-many-questions-about-new-vidi-policy. According to Sebo Uithol, postdoc at the Donders Centre for Cognition, “There’s now a risk that institutes won’t allow their internal researchers to submit an application,” a concern shared by many others. What are your thoughts and experiences? Read More …

Mark your calendar on Thursday 24 May to visit the 14th edition of BCF Career Event! This is the largest career fair in Europe for Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food & Pharma.   A visit to BCF Career Event offers you: – Over 80 exhibitors and employers on the exhibition floor – Inspiring programme & presentations Read More …

Our chair Christina Helbig and Léon Ouwerkerk from CWI, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, discuss the challenges of career development for PhD students and postdocs (video in Dutch). What are the most important challenges, how to deal with those, and what inspired them during the SoFoKles conference on Read More …

Do you wish to further your career and increase your knowledge on the development of novel medical interventions? Paul Janssen Futurelab Leiden is offering two members of PostdocsNL free ‘seats’ to their Clinical Development course. The online course starts April 9 and scholarships are available. For more info visit their website www.PaulJanssenFuturelab.eu   Join the Read More …

The first meeting for the local network in Utrecht will be this month!   You can register for free at: http://bit.ly/PNUstart   Postdoc Network Utrecht aims to connect all life science postdocs (and also assistant-professors and other interested scientific personnel) to unite them, help with career development and act as a liaison to UU and Read More …

Parliamentary questions have been asked about the postdoc situation, let the Minister of Education, Culture, and Science @ivanengelshoven know that you want those questions answered.   Share or like our status update: https://twitter.com/PostdocNL/status/963030214468136960, that will really help, or tweet yourself to the Minister @ivanengelshoven. Let’s speed up the change.   Join the LinkedIn groupSign up Read More …

The research by the CWTS Institute at Leiden University that we mentioned below (The career of postdocs is largely dependent on coincidence) is taking effect. The rector of Leiden University has indicated that he will take action as a result of this research and Frank Futselaar of the SP wants the Minister to take action Read More …

What does it mean to be a postdoc? Have you ever wondered if you’re the only one feeling overwhelmed by your workload and lack of career perspective? Or do you feel making the next career step is really easy for you?   Researchers Teelkens and Van der Weijden conducted a large-scale study among postdocs, using Read More …

Part of the PostdocNL board met up for another inspiring working day. Here we brainstorm and get things done for postdoc career development.   Eelco is setting up a postdoc network in Leiden, Nicoline is establishing one in Utrecht. This week we will be contacting all the HR departments at research institutes and organizations, to Read More …