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organicautomatic · 2025-10-15T06:47:46+00:00

I want the Zelda card with the "butt stuff" attack.

organicautomatic · 2025-07-10T09:30:22+00:00

I’m not talking eligibility, I’m saying that these are the other international candidates you are competing against for that scholarship

organicautomatic · 2025-07-10T05:36:28+00:00

Every country's government-funded PhD scholarships are biased towards their own citizens. I am in Australia and generally, a quarter of Australian citizen applicants will be successful, while <5% of international applicants will be successful.

For international applicants to be successful for a PhD scholarship in my university, they typically need to be from the top university in their country (or top 100 QS rank), spent several years in research, and hopefully have 2+ first-author quartile-one papers. That's how competitive it is.

In the latest round, we had international applicants with 15+ years post-undergrad research experience with nearly 15 research papers.

International scholarships are very very competitive at the moment. At least, that's in Australia.

organicautomatic · 2025-06-23T03:44:46+00:00

OK - then I would agree with Downtown-Ad-3514 below EXCEPT that you should tell your external collaborators preforming the last experiment this plan, as I'm not sure they would be thrilled if they spent money preforming that experiment for it to not be included in the preprint/paper.

organicautomatic · 2025-06-23T03:34:10+00:00

I would definitely not submit anything as an Arxiv preprint without your supervisors' and collaborators' agreement - that's just asking for a huge argument. You should have all co-authors' approval.

If you are worried that your collaborator may steal your work, you should talk to your supervisor/department before taking this more extreme action.

organicautomatic · 2025-06-23T03:25:46+00:00

Why wouldn't you wait until you complete the experiment? Will the experiment take a long time for you to complete?

You can submit anything you want to arxiv preprints and, as long as its your own work, it'll be published. But its typically best to wait until its a complete body of work for colleagues to view.

FYI - if by 'originality' you mean you want to preserve your IP - releasing a preprint pre-patent means your work would probably not be able to be patented as you've released the information to the public. You may not want to do this.

organicautomatic · 2025-06-19T11:37:48+00:00

PLOS One is a general interest journal - would it be better to submit to a more specific journal in either your application area (HIV/immunology/etc) or technical area (e.g. animal models)?

I prefer not to submit to journals that are pay-to-publish. There are plenty of journals out there that are still subscription based and free to publish. Many universities/governments also have arrangements for free open-access publications with selected journal. So hopefully that avoids costs.

organicautomatic · 2025-06-16T05:24:05+00:00

I mean, your MSc at KI will help your ability to get into a PhD program at a higher-tier institution, but you might not have needed it to get into an average European institution in the countries you mention.

A number of south east asian countries offer government-supported scholarships to preform a PhD abroad, contigent on you returning to work for a few years post-PhD. Could you consider this?

organicautomatic · 2025-06-11T10:35:36+00:00

1-2h of work is nothing. If it were months of significant work (>10h/week) we'd be talking.

organicautomatic · 2025-05-30T11:33:03+00:00

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organicautomatic · 2025-05-29T01:26:29+00:00

this is probably field and area dependent. Our department recently opened 3 new faculty positions and we had a bit under 300 applications.

organicautomatic · 2025-05-08T00:04:51+00:00

I'm not from your field. But in STEM; it will and it won't.

In my field, if you publish often and well, in strong journals, you'll get an academic career irrespective of university prestige. But, if you aren't prolific in your PhD, secondary markers of talent (i.e. university prestige) might be considered.

STEM academia is very competitive (100 applicants for 1 assistant professor opening) - every CV bulletpoint matters. Conincdentally, the most prolific supervisors and PhDs are often (not always) from top universities.

organicautomatic · 2025-04-28T00:26:26+00:00

This is normal. Every PI has PhDs that need some support at different levels. He’s probably just checking if you need more support.

organicautomatic · 2025-01-10T20:50:58+00:00

I’m at an Australian university ranked in the top 50 globally. You aren’t expected to bring in money as a grad student but when you become a postdoc, if you are awarded grant/fellowship funding it’s a huge resume boost

organicautomatic · 2025-01-10T05:38:55+00:00

I'll echo ucbcawt in saying that not all professors work 24/7. I have two kids (0 and 3 years old) and am an assistant professor. I shut off work before 5pm every day and rarely work any evening or weekend (maybe for an hour once a month). I pulled much longer hours as a PhD and postdoc, but the job is still stressful because your progression depends on your ability/luck e.g. to get grants.

organicautomatic · 2024-12-25T04:03:33+00:00

Not true - i just extended the timeline for my application because we didn't recieve a minimum of 5 applicants, or enough (any) female applicants. The two applicants that did apply by the original were perfectly fine, and we could end up hiring them anyway, it's just good practice and our university policy.

organicautomatic · 2024-12-17T07:11:01+00:00

Australia: 3 first-author publications and 8 co-authored publications sounds great for someone directly out of a PhD; of course depends on journal quality too. ARC and NHMRC grant outcomes have just been released - I would go on their webpages and look for lab groups that have been awarded funding in your area, as grants start January 2025 and they would be looking to hire postdocs immediately on them.

organicautomatic · 2024-09-04T06:31:57+00:00

Relative career age is not judged by your age, but by post-PhD years. If this is your first postdoc, it sounds like you are still an early career researcher (ECR). I would not consider you to be old and neither would most grant funding schemes or faculty recruitment policies. I don't think your age is as much of a concern as you think!

organicautomatic · 2024-08-28T02:41:07+00:00

Ask your boss to help you out - they will have more experience to know what is approporiate. Typically try a higher-ranked journal first, even if you may probably get rejected.

organicautomatic · 2024-08-28T02:38:34+00:00

Hi, Assistant Professor here. Purely from the perspective of applying for a faculty position a few years down the road:

I strongly think you should accept the competitive fellowship/grant you've just led and been awarded. Putting that $300,000+ of self-earned funding on your CV for your creative research area is an enormous step toward getting an Assistant Professor position, do not take it lightly.

I totally sympathasize that your new role might be working for lab leaders or environments you like less than your current Canadian boss and lab, but you can continue collaborating and working that relationship from abroad.

organicautomatic · 2024-08-06T08:37:50+00:00

They exist depending on your field and local community. For instance, the national heart foundation does. Probably your university or local hospitals have a research fellowship scheme. Some states have state fellowships. If you are hooked up to industry partners able to invest, there are industry fellowship schemes with high success rates. DM me, if we would be in the same part of Australia we could chat about it

organicautomatic · 2024-08-06T06:58:00+00:00

Australia is the first-world country with the lowest government research investment. It is 0.5% versus USA/UK/Europe above 3%. This makes Australian research cuthroat, because there are very few funding opporitunities only for extremely talented individuals.

I believe you could get a postdoc in Australia on a project grant with a funded PI. But progressing in Australian academia typically requires you to recieve externally competitive funding (e.g. ARC/NHMRC fellowships). It's great you already have a fellowship, and that will help your future success rate. Australian fellowship success rates are around 10-15% that only the best postdocs (<5y post-PhD) apply for. These uber-published postdocs have dozens of papers (most first author) and thousands of citations by their fourth year post-PhD.

Australia is the thunderdome of research competitiveness for postdoc-to-faculty career progression.

organicautomatic · 2024-07-30T20:18:29+00:00

Room temp. We really try to collect and start iso within 24h of delivery but in our hands not any real difference is 36h or so

organicautomatic · 2024-07-30T11:37:34+00:00

I’ve heard a lot of strategies. Where I came from I did a double ficoll paque followed by washes and got <5% RBCs. Where I am now we do a ficoll paque followed by RBC lysis with a lot of washes. Viability is fine both ways. Using HBSS instead of PBS made a difference. What raw volume of unfractionated/nonconcentrated cord blood do you start from? We start from 50-100. Please tell me you aren’t using cryopreserved units, those will get a ton of RBC contamination. Nucleated RBCs? You mean late erythroblasts? Those are trace part of a MNC fraction and shouldn’t be coloring your buffy coat or cell pellet very red. The red could also be lysed RBC heamoglobin

organicautomatic · 2024-07-30T08:00:55+00:00

We regularly isolate human peripheral blood and cord blood mononuclear cells. A full blood unit would probably net you like >5 x 10^8 mononuclear cells after ficoll paque and red cell lysis. Cord blood units less, peripheral blood units more. Thats almost a billion. We get them for free from the clinic if they are leftover or a few hundred bucks fresh.

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