We have reached 500 LinkedIn members! Thank you for your support, we are the only national postdoc network in The Netherlands and we are proud to represent postdocs.   The past year we have been in contact with many organizations: Dutch Science Organization (NWO), Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW), the association of universities … read more >

Upcoming Tuesday November 22nd, PostdocNL will be joining the Postdoc Meeting at the Vrije Universiteit. We will be represented in the panel discussion. After the panel discussion, lead by Rector Magnificus Vinod Subramaniam, there will be interesting workshops for Postdocs of the VU. Attendance to the meeting is free. PostdocNL encourages postdocs from the VU … read more >

Tomorrow, on Friday November 11th, PostdocNL is speaking at the FEDERA day ‘Health(y) science: Increasing value, reducing waste’. PostdocNL will emphasize the value of postdocs for the knowledge economy in The Netherlands and advocate for investing in postdocs and their career development because this will be a direct invesment in the Dutch knowledge economy.   … read more >

Do you have any bad experience with – (temporary) contracts – integrity issues – being treated unequal – a workload that is too high?   Have you felt mistreated as a scientist?   VAWO, the workers union for scientists, calls upon us to report our stories at their ‘meldpunt misstanden’: www.vawo.nl/meldpunt-misstanden Reporting can be done … read more >

A very interesting read!   https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/may/24/why-women-leave-academia     Join the LinkedIn groupSign up to Mailinglist