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A PhD Is Not Enough!

A Guide to Survival in Science

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A PhD Is Not Enough!

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Everything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist.

Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find.

In A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!, physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a fulfilling long-term research career. He offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; preparing for an employment interview; and defining a research program. The guidance offered in A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! will help you make your oral presentations more effective, your journal articles more compelling, and your grant proposals more successful.

A classic guide for recent and soon-to-be graduates, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! remains required reading for anyone on the threshold of a career in science. This new edition includes two new chapters and is revised and updated throughout to reflect how the revolution in electronic communication has transformed the field. Education
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if you're a PhD student, postdoc or already a tenured professor, you can learn a lot from this book. Being a good scientist is not just about doing good science, and this book helps you get there.

Must read it you're in science

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This book is well written, clearly a subject known well by the author. A voice I never got sick of hearing and information that never stops causing me to think. I will probably listen to it a few times, but this next time I will take notes more intensely. Loved the book.

Excellent listen

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Informative and insightful, any budding scientist stands to benefit from reading this book. Thanks from a physics PhD candidate 2024.

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Very helpful! Nice reading. I am glad to be able to learn from others experiences.

Very helpful!

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As a professor myself (with research, extension and teaching in my appointment), I can say that this book provides a good summary of key points that play a big role in the career of any person involved with science. Although my experience as a faculty as being very enjoyable, I understand that everybody's journey is different and some research areas are more competitive than others. Overall, it is a good book, I would just suggest to any student-reader to try to find some joy in their research carrer other than glory, fame. or money. It is a marathon, not a spring, and there are many enjoyable things related to being a faculty (time and creativity freedom, a lo of travel in many cases, and also contributing to the professional development of new scientists (your future students)).

Great summary of key strategies to become more noticeable as a scientist.

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