Science Careers covered an interesting paper in Current Biology the describes an app that will calculate your odds of becoming a PI... and the somewhat sad observations that this app enabled them to make.
[This week] in Current Biology, three early-career scientists—two postdocs and a new principal investigator (PI)—published a paper that uses data scraped from PubMed to calculate the odds of becoming a PI. David van Dijk, the article's first author, and this correspondent built an app that allows you to input your data and calculate your own odds. (See our Q&A interview with the authors and related coverage at Science.)
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