How do national policies shape early academic careers?

✍🏼 Jörg Müller & Rachel Palmén, senior researchers at #GenTIC, analysed 31 European countries and found that combining early childhood education and care policies with reducing precarious working conditions for women leads to gender-equitable early careers.

📄 Read their results in this open-access article at 'Science and Public Policy':

#QualitativeComparativeAnalysis #ScientificCareers #GenderEquality

https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaf035

Pathways to gender equality in academia. National factors shaping women’s early career progression across Europe

Abstract. Throughout Europe, women remain underrepresented at the top of the scientific career ladder. While existing research on vertical segregation in s

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💫 We’re delighted to welcome Franziska Glassmeier and her Lise Meitner Research Group (@maxplanckgesellschaft) at our institute! The team is doing cutting-edge research on the interactions between #clouds 🌥️ and our #climate using satellite data 🛰️ & methods from the theory of complex systems.

✨ We are really excited for the new perspectives and ideas that they will bring to our institute.

Find out more: 🔗 https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/detail-view-news-homepage/franziska-glassmeier-heads-new-lise-meitner-research-group-at-the-mpi-m
#MPIM #ScientificCareers

📣 Call for #PhD: Augmenting #clinicalTrials control groups via #SyntheticPatient data

@berkeley and I may have a 3-year PhD fellowship (~1300 €/month, after taxes) at #UniTO (https://phd-csqb.campusnet.unito.it/do/home.pl). Deadline: June 15th.

Get in touch with us ASAP to apply!

#PhDjobs #ScientificCareers #hiring #academia

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Dottorato di ricerca interdisciplinare; forma ricercatori in grado di integrare approcci sperimentali e computazionali nelle scienze biologiche e mediche. Interdisciplinary PhD programme: training of researchers to integrate experimental and computat...

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🎓🥂💐Congratulations to our PhD candidate Moritz Epke! Today, Moritz defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Kilometer-scale Ocean Turbulence and Waves in the North and South Atlantic". What a great success! We're also thrilled that Moritz will continue his journey with us as a Postdoctoral researcher! 👏🔬✨ #PhDHat #PhD #PhDdefense #ScientificCareers #Milestones #UHH

Today we had our Institute #Klausur (i.e. retreat), and were discussing nice topics regarding #ScientificCareers

To relax, we took a short hike with prominent #Dolomites sceneries: #Latemar massif and #KarerSee (#carezza).

Enjoyable working day, productive and still relaxing! 😎

#EuracResearch #AlpSoil_Lab #SouthTyrol #NaturalScience

One thing I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how #careers get affected by #parenthood (especially for #women ). There’s been a lot written about this in the context of #science and #ScientificCareers but I’m keen to hear more. For example: often people (especially #mothers ) take a break after they’ve had a baby (and they should!). But what are the conditions for this break? Many #PhD programmes (mine included) don’t seem to have policies on #MaternityLeave , let alone #MaternityPay ->