Paul GuinnessyCanadian researchers are thrilled by “the largest investment in graduate students and postdocs in over 21 years”, says Kaitlin Kharas, a PhD student and executive director of the group #SupportOurScience. We're talking 30% or higher here. #Academia #AcademicChatter https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01124-2?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=49a8813c3d-briefing-dy-20240418&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-49a8813c3d-50179668
Ben Cardoen@jsdodge This is great news, to be honest I'd given up hope that the budget would be altered. Credit goes to the amazing work by the #SupportOurScience organizers to inform and lobby so this is passed
Steve DodgeThere’s finally some good news for Canadian science in the 2024 budget announcement. Thanks to the #SupportOurScience organizers for keeping up the pressure!
Support Our Science is Thrilled to See a Significant Investment in Graduate Student Scholarships and Postdoctoral Fellowships in Budget 2024
April 16, 2024 OTTAWA, ON - Support Our Science, an organization dedicated to advocating for increased funding for Canada’s 300,000 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, welcomes significant new investments for these essential researchers in Budget 2024. Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars drive much of Canada’s research, discovery, and innovation. Investing in these researchers means investing in creating solutions to the largest challenges facing our society including disease p
#Canadians in #science: please join the #SupportOurScience campaign to ensure that Budget 2024 increases federal support for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars!
@erinnacland @academicchatter @academicsunite
Press release from #SupportOurScience on the lack of new investment to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the 2023 Fall Economic Statement
Press release from #SupportOurScience on the lack of new investment to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the 2023 Fall Economic Statement
This is infuriating. I just attended a big announcement of the new Canada Excellence Research Chairs, which will shower a few dozen PIs with nearly C$250M over the next eight years. Meanwhile, the base funding to support the junior scholars at the foundation of this pyramid has been flat for over twenty years.
#SupportOurScience #Canada #science
From: @erinnacland
https://fediscience.org/@erinnacland/111454786303382791
Erinn Acland, PhD (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image The "top" postdocs in Canadian are awarded 40,000 CAD/year by the government. It costs 45% of that salary to rent a 1-bedroom in Toronto. The government announced yesterday that it's not increasing our funding. "For over two decades, these critical contributors to research and innovation have received no funding increase from the federal government and now face significant financial challenges." - #SupportOurScience https://www.supportourscience.ca/post/support-our-science-disappointment-with-the-lack-of-funding-for-graduate-students-and-postdoctoral @[email protected] @[email protected] #Canada #Science
This is an excellent piece on the precarious state of Canadian science, including interviews with two leaders of #SupportOurScience. The Trudeau government can talk all they want about their “historic level of support for science and research,” but the foundation is rotting. The base funding to support students and postdocs has been stagnant for over 20 years.
Marcia MacDonald20 yrs ago I was a new PhD student with an $18K/y scholarship, which increased to $30K/y when I managed to get a CGS-D scholarship from CIHR (+ $2K top-up from my supervisor’s research grant). Despite 52% inflation, many grad students are now making less than I did, and most post-docs are paid far less than the $70K/y I made with an NSERC-IRDF at Tekmira ($ABUS) in 2009.
Grad students and post-docs are the future of science and need a living wage!! #SupportOurScience
Stephen HeardCanadians: Please sign the latest Canadian House of Commons petition calling for increased federal funding for graduate students and postdocs through scholarships, fellowships & grants. Sign here & please boost: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4457 #SupportOurScience
HishamZerriffi#SupportOurScience UBC arriving at the plaza in front of the Koerner library which houses the Adminstration offices.
Better funding for grad students and post-docs should be a priority for Canadian science funding.
This means more in direct fellowships and more for grants for faculty to be able to support our students properly.
