Philip A. Schwartzkroin

A useful demonstration that there's much more to being a research scientist than doing research. Examines the issues which early-career research scientists need to be aware of, which may not be covered in their training - writing a paper, giving a talk, writing a grant proposal, awareness of the "politics" of being a scientist. A US publicationn. CO & KB, sheved at Green, V

An honest look at the life of a research scientist in academia that isn't made up of scientific research. A lot of politics are involved in science and anybody looking to get into that as a profession should be made aware of these issues before jumping in head first. After reading it I don't think I learned a whole lot more than I already knew as a PhD graduate student but it did fill in some gaps and did confirm some suspicions I've had about the inner workings of the track to professorship.