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Counting up the ECRs
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This isn’t really a post about statistics so much as about my personal experience. I’m feeling down about the upcoming job market and decided to test my impression that ‘all the guys are getting jobs’. Here are the stats for the early career researchers coming out of my labs, which I feel the need to stress are run by VERY supportive, mostly female PIs.

Filter: from on of the 4 labs I've worked closely with, currently holds a pHD, and I overlapped with them for at least a year in grad school.

Faculty or accepted offer - 8F, 13M

Still postdoc-ing - 9F, 0M

Outside academia - 1F, 3M (There's a chance I'm underestimating this category depending on how people are listed on the alumni website.)

I don’t think this is anyone’s fault in particular and I don’t know what to do about it, but it sure reflects the statistics in the field, and it sure gets in my head.

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