{"id":609,"date":"2011-04-23T14:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T19:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2011-04-23T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:10:15","slug":"2011-04-23-new-articles-we-read-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/2011-04-23-new-articles-we-read-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"2011-04-23 new articles we read this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/index.html\">Nature<\/a> Magazine has published a series of papers that discuss &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/specials\/phdfuture\/index.html\">The Future of The PhD<\/a>&#8220;. Another discussion of the  challenges that PhD students encounter and a debate on whether a  doctoral degree should be a training for job or a training for  scientific thinking. The  discussions from the readers under each article on the website are also  interesting.<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Fix the PhD. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):259-260. PubMed PMID: 21512527.<\/li>\n<li>Cyranoski D, Gilbert N, Ledford H, Nayar A, Yahia M. Education: The PhD factory. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):276-279. PubMed PMID: 21512548.<\/li>\n<li>McCook A. Education: Rethinking PhDs. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):280-282.PubMed PMID: 21512549.<\/li>\n<li>Gosling R, Tickle C, Running SW, Tandong Y, Dinnyes A, Osowole AA, Cule E. Seven ages of the PhD. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):283-286. PubMed PMID: 21512550.<\/li>\n<li>Taylor M. Reform the PhD system or close it down. Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):261. PubMed PMID: 21512530.<\/li>\n<li>Fiske P. What is a PhD really worth?. Nature 2011 Apr 22;472(7343):381<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Nature Magazine has published a series of papers that discuss &#8220;The Future of The PhD&#8220;. Another discussion of the challenges that PhD students encounter and a debate on whether a doctoral degree should be a training for job or a training for scientific thinking. The discussions from the readers under each article on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}