Does anyone have numbers on the percentage of US postdocs at universities that are on a J1 vs #H1B visa ?

Calling #PostDocs and #Professors across disciplines!

At the University of Freiburg, one of Germany’s oldest and most prestigious universities, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) offers fellowships for researchers from all countries and disciplines to pursue their projects within a vibrant academic community.

Our programme for the Academic Year 2026/27:

Early Career Fellowships
- PhD obtained within the last 8 years
- at least 6 months of international academic experience
- duration: 4–10 months

Senior Fellowships
- PhD and at least 8 years of postdoc experience
- at least 6 months of international academic experience
- duration: 3–8 months

Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowship for researchers based in Africa
- Affiliated with an African academic institution
- PhD and 8+ years of postdoc experience
- at least 6 months of international academic experience
- Fields: Humanities & Social Sciences
- Duration: 6 months

Please check the link for detailed eligibility criteria: https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/funding/frias-fellowship-programmes/

Deadline: 13 September 2025, 13:00 (CEST)

Closer science ties across the Atlantic: the Max Planck Society has just launched its new Transatlantic Program to boost collaboration with top U.S. institutions & open up more chances for researchers at every level - from #PhDs & #postdocs, to group leaders & directors! More here: https://www.mpg.de/25034916/max-planck-transatlantic-program

Der Countdown läuft: Noch bis zum 15. Juni können #Promovierende & #Postdocs ihr #Abstract für die CIDER-LERN Conference am 10.+.11.November 2025 in Bamberg einreichen.
https://www.leibniz-bildung.de/cider-lern-conference-2025-call-for-papers/

Veranstalter sind @LIfBi_Bamberg, @bib_bund, College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER) und LERN.

#joboffer: Postdoctoral Researcher as a Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d)
#Research on and Implementation of #DigitalTeaching Scenarios, full-time, E14 TV-L, initially fixed term for 4 years, starting as soon as possible. More information: https://www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karriere/stellenangebote/anzeige.html?kind=wissenschaftlich#ausschreibung1007-2025 #postdoc #postdocs #researchgroup #DigitalEducation

#environmental and #CircularEconomy

The Finnish Environment Institute is hiring no less than 7 new #postdocs, 3 years guaranteed funding, to a great, fully bilingual (Finnish-English) workplace!

A great opportunity for great #AcademicWork !

https://www.syke.fi/en/about-us/news/sykes-postdoctoral-programmes-recruitment-continues-7-open-positions

We are VERY excited to run the @snolabscience.bsky.social #UndergroundScience Institute #Lecture Program for its second year. Grad students and post-doctoral researchers are strongly encouraged to submit applications of interest.

Working on a SNOLAB project? Apply!

Planning to spend some time working on a SNOLAB project this summer? Apply!

Interested in potential #collaborations with SNOLAB projects? Apply!

https://indico.snolab.ca/e/susi2025

Neue #Workshops für #Postdocs im Sommersemester 2025:
Ab sofort können sich promovierte Wissenschaftler*innen der #UniFreiburg für das neue Sommersemesterprogramm „Learning & Development“ des Centre for Advanced Researcher Development (CARD) anmelden.

Es bietet praxisnahe Workshops und individuelle Beratung rund um Führung, #Karriereplanung, #Drittmittelanträge, #Wissenschaftskommunikation und vieles mehr.

Infos & Anmeldung:
https://ufr.link/card-workshops

#Postdocs and #PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on #science, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
Month of repeated threats to #US science funding, many early-career researchers are fearing for their careers. #Scientists especially vulnerable: graduate students, postdocs and scientists just starting their own labs are the researchers most likely to be living pay cheque to pay cheque, most reliant on federal grants for their income.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00550-0 #PhDLife #PhDChat

Apply now! Freiburg Postdoctoral Academy (FPA) offers 10 memberships in the newly launched Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research.
The Good Life – What Makes a Good Society
#Postdocs, 2–6 years after PhD
Oct 2025-Sep 2028
Apply by 15 April
https://uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-for-applications-yac-2025/
@unifreiburg

The Project on the Foundations of Private Law at Harvard Law School is seeking applicants for full-time, one- to two-year residential appointments, starting in the fall of 2025.

#Law #Scholarship #Academia #Harvard #PostDocs

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/02/post-doc-at-harvard-laws-project-on-the-foundations-of-private-law-.html

More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00142-y @nature.com

Postdoc position available in Arjun Bharioke's lab, at the Medical University of South Carolina:
https://www.bhariokelab.com/contact-and-opportunities
#neuroscience #PhDJobs #postdocs

Try to look surprised: temporary resident postdocs, who make up the majority of US #STEM #postdocs, have lower salaries, fewer benefits, less mentoring, and are less involved in collaboration, grants, and #teaching. #AcademicChatter
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733324001264

I just read through my latest #introduction and it’s so outdated

Hello friends

My name is Bibi and I am a final-year #PhD student in #astronomy and #astrophysics at Lund University in Sweden.

I observe #exoplanets with big #telescopes to study their atmospheric composition

I recently spent a year in #Chile at #ESO, and now I am writing up my #thesis, and I am applying for #postdocs

I am the first in my family to go to uni, so you’ll definitely hear me talk about that #scicomm

Competition in academia does not only allocate resources. It also socializes those who participate in it. For the postdoc stage, which is crucial for academic socialization, we have studied how multiple competitions pile up, compete, or contradict each other, and how postdocs cope with these multiple sources of socialization.

#IchbinHanna #Postdocs #Academia

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01322-x

This week is #PostdocAppreciationWeek - and I've written a blog for Cancer Research UK celebrating the role of #postdocs in supporting #ResearchIntegrity

https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2024/09/17/research-with-integrity-time-to-recognise-postdocs/

I've tried to find some meaningful resources for postdocs and their supervisors to support #CPD, and argue that improving #postdoctoral training has benefits which spillover into the lab environment, improving research quality and #ResearchCulture more widely

#PAW2024 #NPAW2024 #Love{Postdocs

#NIH has a request for information out on a set of policies for #postdoc researchers that include limiting NIH support to 5 years.

https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=6660cc1aa1264f88920cf122

Im almost 2 years into a project where I have almost finished rearchitecting the de facto standard for my field from the ground up, in doing so making heavy contribution to surrounding projects rather than wandering off on my own - which would have certainly yielded a paper in a high impact journal sooner, but been worse for open source and the tooling landscape. If I have to be out in 5 years then that would be how I had to work if I wanted to still be in academic research.

That project is about shifting the backbone of the tooling ecosystem for research from start to finish, not just for my field and this format, but very generalizably. Im in a lab and collaborating with ppl who make a big chunk of the open source hardware in our field, and we're also rebuilding the acquisition software system to plug directly into extensible vernacular schemas that can be massively interoperable. Rearchitecting data standards is also an ethical project, to enable a new kind of p2p system that stands a plausible chance of being an alternative to the inevitable future of the NIH giving 1/3 of its budget to Amazon and google for cloud hosting. That work is continuous with what we're doing over here on neuromatchstodon, bc my work is putting these data formats directly into linked data standards - in a way that actually works - so we can build distributed systems of communication to be able to share work and assign credit across the lifespan of an experiment, a protocol-based alternative to the journal system.

None of that work fits into a system of support where in 5 years I need to have enough prestige pubs to land a faculty position. That work really can only be done by postdocs and staff scientists. So that kind of integrative work addressing foundational problems in research would simply become impossible, rather than heavily disincentivized. hit up the rfi

#Academia #Research #ResearchFunding #Postdocs @academicchatter

Leider muss die Veranstaltung aufgrund einer Erkrankung der Referentin entfallen
Drei Jahre #ichbinhanna & #ichbinreyhan. Wie steht es um die Arbeitsbedingungen in der Wissenschaft? Das @FRIAS_UFreiburg lädt #PostDocs und #Promovierende @unifreiburg
zum Werkstattgespräch mit @amreibahr und @tanjabhuiyan6.
Anmeldung bis 30.4. - mehr Infos:
https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/veranstaltungen/frias-wekstattgespraech-bahr

The number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents working as #postdocs in the U.S. fell sharply in 2022. The new data underscore concerns that an increasing number of early career scientists are flocking to industry.

My latest for @sciencemagazine

https://www.science.org/content/article/fewer-u-s-scientists-are-pursuing-postdoc-positions-new-data-show