What are the the most prestigious postdocs? Which are best to set you up for a TT position? A few candidates off the top of my head: Belfer Center, Yale OCV, Stanford CDRL, EUI Max Weber Fellowship. I'm sure there are others. I'm wondering if there's a conventional postdoc ranking comparable to department ranking?
Best Postdocs?
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Posted 10 months ago #
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OP, the "most prestigious postdoc" is whichever one you currently hold. It's so obvious that you are fishing for indirect self-promotion by trying to create the perception that your postdoc signals a lot of prestige.
Go ahead and try to pump up your CV, you sly dog.
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lol busted!
this is such a lame thread topic.
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The best post-doc is the one that pays the most money in a good place to live. Any post-doc that requires you to teach, regardless of what it pays or what city it is in, is out of the running.
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Dartmouth.
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Robert Wood Johnson
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^ hehe...you said "wood johnson." funny!
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"Best Post-doc" is really an oxymoron. Best to get the fluck out of the post-doc cycle as quick as you can.
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^But so long as you're stuck in a post-doc, you might as well come onto PSJR and try to self-promote in whatever way you can, right?
(Including, apparently, starting a really dumb thread on trying to convince everyone that *your* postdoc is the most "pretigious" one)
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^^Some of us aren't stuck in the post-doc cycle, some of us took post-docs along with our TT jobs.
But the more interesting question is what's the worst post-doc? Harriman at Columbia pays less than 40k a year, doesn't give you benefits, and won't even guarantee you an office.
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Institute for Advanced Studies Princeton
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Yikes, OP here, I'm actually applying for postdocs and trying to figure out if some are better regarded than others. I think you all have been traumatized by too much trolling on this website.
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CASBS stanford good too
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try IAS princeton
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OP, you still look like an idiot for asking the question. It doesn't matter. You should apply to all of them because you probably won't get any offers. So the question is moot until you get multiple offers.
Posted 10 months ago # -
jezz 'anaon', what a resentful piece of trash you seem like lol
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It's not an oxymoron (response to a poster way up there). I know people who have serious location preferences, so they would rather take a good post-doc (e.g. no teaching, etc.) than a tenure-track position in certain locations. Not saying if that's a 'good' or 'bad' strategy but it is a valid preference.
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Juan March Institute postdocs are great for IPE, well-paid and you get to live in Madrid..
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In the UK the Nuffield postdocs are a big deal though the location is pretty crappy.
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^Yeah, but they pay fairly crappy, considering the cost of living in Oxford. I mean, I guess if you wanted to live in the free, dorm-like accommodations it would be ok, but no thanks. Juan March has better scholars, anyway.
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Postdoc means time to publish without worrying about teaching or tenure clock ticking. Why would you want to bust out of that ASAP...?
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^As someone who has participated in over ten tenure votes in two departments, I have to warn you the idea that you can truly "pause" the tenure clock with a postdoc is a myth. Technically, a postdoc allows you to postpone facing the real world or delay the tenure clock. But the reality is that senior faculty adjust their expectations for people who delay the tenure clock for two or three years (and yes, there are people who do this through a combination of delaying the filing of the dissertation and/or taking postdocs).
Put it this way: If you take 9 years to publish what is barely acceptable for someone on a 6-year tenure clock, you are probably not going to get tenure, even though faculty are technically "supposed" to apply the same standards as for someone who did not delay the tenure clock.
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^Who delays their tenure clock up to three years? I've never heard of someone doing that (but am genuinely curious)
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^Many times an ABD who is hired for a TT job delays filing for the dissertation one year, sometimes two years. It's pretty easy.
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Best, and most prestigious, post-doc in the world for any discipline: Society of Fellows, Harvard. 60-70k a year. Dining with the fellows is all you need to do a couple of times a week.
Posted 10 months ago # -
which as the best IR/Security departments; MIT, Columbia, Chicago, others?
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