Comments on: Up! http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2007/10/25/up/ life, life in science, miscellaneous thoughts Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:50:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: plk http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2007/10/25/up/#comment-456 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:20:00 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2007/10/25/up/#comment-456 Did you know that the director of this series also made a Bond movie?! Did you know that the director of this series also made a Bond movie?!

]]> by: drshellie http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2007/10/25/up/#comment-440 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:02:07 +0100 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2007/10/25/up/#comment-440 Good points. Regarding the difficulty of getting faculty positions, Nick mentions that he was working at a British scientific agency when the people at Madison "asked him to come" there. I don't know, but I suspect that maybe faculty jobs were much easier to get at that time. Maybe each professor had fewer PhD students, or maybe the number of faculty jobs was expanding. At any rate, I don't think that faculty searches were the nationally/internationally competitive process with 200+ applicants that they are now. Does anyone have perspective on how things have changed in the last few decades? Good points. Regarding the difficulty of getting faculty positions, Nick mentions that he was working at a British scientific agency when the people at Madison “asked him to come” there. I don’t know, but I suspect that maybe faculty jobs were much easier to get at that time. Maybe each professor had fewer PhD students, or maybe the number of faculty jobs was expanding. At any rate, I don’t think that faculty searches were the nationally/internationally competitive process with 200+ applicants that they are now. Does anyone have perspective on how things have changed in the last few decades?

]]> by: MsPhD http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2007/10/25/up/#comment-436 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:11:41 +0100 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2007/10/25/up/#comment-436 I saw these a while back. Mostly I was bitter that this guy was already a professor at age 28, and that there was no mention that it's not easy to get those positions. Oh yeah and that most of the women in these movies had little or no career to speak of, while the men all had wives at home taking care of their kids. Not the kind of cinema I need more of right now. I saw these a while back. Mostly I was bitter that this guy was already a professor at age 28, and that there was no mention that it’s not easy to get those positions. Oh yeah and that most of the women in these movies had little or no career to speak of, while the men all had wives at home taking care of their kids.

Not the kind of cinema I need more of right now.

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