{"id":1656,"date":"2008-07-11T00:44:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/11\/blog_pimpin\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T00:44:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T00:44:42","slug":"blog_pimpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/11\/blog_pimpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Pimpin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, if <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/henrygee\/2008\/07\/09\/not-the-ball-bearing-factories-at-schweinfurth-again\">Henry<\/a> can promote his new blog, so can I!<br \/>\nThis one is actually a collaborative effort, called <a href=\"http:\/\/alternative-scientist.blogspot.com\/\">The Alternative Scientist<\/a>. The focus is on &#8220;alternative careers&#8221; &#8211; slightly misnamed since most PhDs <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> end up in a traditional tenure track position these days. But you get the picture &#8211; the blog features posts from several authors on non-traditional career options for scientists.<br \/>\nSo far we have posts on non-tenure track academic positions; adjunct teaching; scientific administration; industry (biotech <em>and<\/em> big pharma, no less); advice on negotiating salaries; and my own posts on marketing and grant writing.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure there&#8217;d be a lot of interest in posts about journal editing and related careers, so if any of the Nature staff who haunt these blogs are interested in contributing, let me know! <strong>Alternatively<\/strong> (oh I&#8217;m so funny), you could leave comments on this post describing your route into the profession and any tips you might have for people who want to <del>steal your jobs<\/del> follow in your esteemed footsteps. I will cross link or copy and paste (with attribution) as appropriate.<br \/>\nTalking of feet&#8230; (you knew I wouldn&#8217;t let this lie, right?), the RCMP have now announced that the only <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/ennis\/2008\/06\/17\/they-found-a-left-foot\">left foot<\/a> found so far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2008\/07\/10\/bc-missing-feet-shoes-identified.html\">matches one of the four right feet<\/a> that have washed up in the region. Details of the associated shoes have also been released, including probable dates and locations of sale. And a foot has washed up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2008\/07\/08\/swedish-foot.html\">Sweden<\/a>&#8230; the plot thickens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, if Henry can promote his new blog, so can I! This one is actually a collaborative effort, called The Alternative Scientist. The focus is on &#8220;alternative careers&#8221; &#8211; slightly misnamed since most PhDs don&#8217;t end up in a traditional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/11\/blog_pimpin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}