Lab Meeting Moved Again. Paper Still Waiting.
Lab meeting rescheduled a third time. Paper ready since April. PI traveling. Reviewers waiting on us. We wait on permission. Postdoc is a waiting room with p...
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Conference Poster Session and the PI Who Didn't Come
I presented the poster. My PI was at a networking dinner. I stood alone with my results and free wine. Postdoc life is shipping visibility while your boss co...
Conference Coffee and the Performance of Belonging
I spent three days in Boston pretending to network. Everyone swapped cards and said we should collaborate, as though collaboration were a greeting rather tha...
My PI Said "Let's Touch Base Next Quarter"
The paper has been ready for six weeks. My principal investigator keeps saying we will submit after the next set of experiments — experiments nobody asked fo...
A While Is Not a Unit of Time
A postdoc's ruined experiment, a late-night Slack, and a missed Diwali reveal the real cost of an academic science career.