The Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative (NPII) is a global programme designed to help Nobel Laureates share their inspirational stories and insights. By taking Nobel Laureates on visits to universities and research centres around the world, and by capturing their thoughts on video, the Initiative seeks to bring the Laureates into closer contact with the worldwide scientific community, and especially with an audience of young scientists.
The Initiative is organised by Nobel Media, the company managing media rights for the Nobel Prize. Since 2010, Nobel Media has run events in partnership with AstraZeneca in China, India, South Korea, Europe, Russia, Brazil and the United States.
Each Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative event lasts two to three days, during which a Nobel Laureate participates in a series of lectures, Q&A sessions and discussion panels, with particular emphasis on promoting informal interactions with younger scientists.
I totally agree. The problem is that, in practice, if you do not publish in high-impact factor journals, you will have serious problems to find or keep your position at a good institute. The hiring and promoting politics in the academic world are very problematic
I guess he is BSing about 0.1 % of all postdoc positions, because in most of the cases the important, usually highly narcisistic and often psychopatic professors already have description of the work that the postdoc is expected to do in order to boost professors carreer, so why on Earth would the postdoc write 'I would do this or that'? if the professor (or some of his slaves) already wrote what the future postdoctoral slave is expected to do? And in that description usually a list of tasks that could be done in 5 years is sqeezed in 1.5 years. So, this old man who got nobel prise because every year some narcisistic or psychopatic maniac has to get it, should shut up. And one more thing I want to add: even worse is that it often happens that the day you show up on your work place you realize that you are not even going to do the job that you applied for. So, please give me a break.
Most scientists aren't capable of doing one thing really well. So I think his standards is way too high. But maybe that's why most scientists aren't great scientists.
Our conditions are definitely not equal. In completely unequal conditions, talking about research and science is a pure lie that is fed to young researchers. A young student who has to pay 3500 dollars to print an article in a journal, the entire burden of research is on his/her shoulders, his/her honor is for his professor, he/she has to pay all the fees and tuition, science is evil for him/her.
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this is very true but yet but few in power seems to accept that it’s not Nature or Cell papers that make scientists. It is the lifetime achievement of that investment into the talent. Give bright minds the freedom and they will deliver breakthrough.
"conceive of ultimate reality as some sort of divine emptiness. However, any conception of transcendence that projects or analogizes from our limited sensory and cognitive experience within the material world is, by its very nature, limited and speculative and thus unreliable. No accumulated quantity of sense data within this world can bring us to knowledge of what lies beyond it. Residents of the material world cannot get even a clue of transcendence, argues our Brahma-samhita commentator, “by moving heaven and earth through their organic senses” (p. xix)."
The analogy goes like this. Imagine that you are a student about to take your A-level mathematics official examination in next 2 weeks. You saw a new mathematics textbook from a different publisher in a bookshop. You bought the book and returned home. One day around 5.30 pm, you attempt to do 5 questions from the textbook, you selected 5 random questions from these 5 chapters: Matrices, Complex numbers, Vectors, Differentiation and Integration. You spend about 25 minutes doing the five mathematics questions, scribbling down your working on 5 different sheet of papers. The time is about 6 pm, you stopped and went out to play basketball with your friends. You returned home around 7.30 pm. You took a bath and had a dinner with your family. You returned back to your study table and checked your scribbled down 5 answers against the book's answers section. To your horror, you found out that you have got it all wrongs. But you said "Hey, I have published 5 papers, right? See, I am holding 5 sheet of papers". Another student somewhere out there, did the same feat, but he attempted 2 questions from 2 chapters: Differential Equations and Numerical Methods and he got it all rights, a 2 out of 2 and you got 0 out of 5. But you said, "Hey I published more papers than him, 5, he only got 2. I deserved to be an assistant professor, right? If I keep on publishing more, I get to be promoted to be a full tenured university professor, keep on doing this, then onward to become a university president or chancellor or maybe a future director of a research institute, right?" You found out that your friend Thomas, did the same feat, he also got it all wrongs, 0 out of 5 from the same 5 chapters. But this is okay, since you are going to put a reference at the end of your 5 papers, citing Thomas's work and Thomas returned the favor and did the same, citing your work. Now you have them all: published papers, citations, H-index, impact factors, research grants, etc...
Do not artificially inflate your ego by calling yourself a Professor if you have not won a Nobel prize, your numerous published papers are meaningless with zero impact on humanity. Just call yourself an Associate Professor or an Emeritus Associate Professor if you are over certain ages.
Basically it looks to me that this guy wants you to work for him for free for a month before he hires you. He wants no one to learn nothing during their postdoc. Outlining the research path should be done during the initial period of your postdoc. Also no guarantee that he might just not answer and steal your intellectual work proposed in your application.
you take a month off and read their work? WTF? Who has the time and/or money to be able to afford that? You quit your job, spend two months for two applications. If you then don't get the job, because simply, it could happen that they don't need a postdoc in their lab in that moment, you have wasted two months of your life with no income and still have no job. Academica s*cks.
Many big scientists have got no Nobel prize but they really did wonderful experiments. Prize should not be the motive , neither the prize winner should be inspiration. What actually matters is idea. And the idea cannot be put on social media for free.
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True!! It took me some time to realize this while applying for my postdoc, and trust me, doing research about their team and integrating your ideas with their vision will give you much more satisfaction instead of sending blueprint emails. Even after this you might not get a response but the chances of getting one get higher. BEWARE -- NEVER EVER disclose every part of your plan; it has to be very generic to give the impression that you have thought about it. You never know it might be stolen! Moreover, I also accept the fact that at the end of Ph.D. it becomes super difficult to invest time in multiple applications in such a short time frame; the ratio of getting a response to the total no. of applications/emails ~ 1:20 or even worse. But all I can say is never lose hope. You have come this far, and you will definitely go further. You will very soon find the right person at the right time; till then keep applying with full intent.. All the best!
