Another point of confusion worth pointing out:
* Many US medical-school-affiliated faculty positions are “12 months” but you may be expected (and heavily pressured) to recover well over 50% of your salary from your grants. The fine print varies widely as to what you will be paid if you fail to recover enough salary from grants. Fortunately for me, my institution pays the full salary anyway but that is not true everywhere – some institutions are totally “soft money” (100% of that salary they offered you has to come from your own research grants). * Many US “arts and sciences” schools (that is, not affiliated with a medical school) offer 9 months salary, BUT they will probably never ask you to recover more than that that 3 months’ worth of “additional” summer salary from your grants, which means you can do more science with your grant money. * Be sure to ask about the fine print as soon as they offer you the job! It isn’t obvious – for example, here Biochemistry is affiliated with the med school and is on a 12-month plan, but Chemistry is not affiliated with the med school and is on a 9-month plan. Some universities have two biochemistry departments, one on each plan. Don’t assume logic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phoebe A. Rice Dept. of Biochem & Mol. Biol. and Committee on Microbiology https://voices.uchicago.edu/phoebericelab/ From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of Hekstra, Doeke Romke <doeke_heks...@harvard.edu> Date: Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 2:45 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Assistant Professor in Structural Biology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hi everyone, When I was looking for faculty positions, I completely misunderstood this language too. I didn’t apply to some places because of this odd “9-month” language, only to realize I was getting a 9-month salary after all! Mark is, of course, right that this practice is nearly universal, but it would help to reconsider our collective terminology or better explain this in job postings. Best, Doeke ===== Doeke Hekstra Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology, and of Applied Physics (SEAS), Director of Undergraduate Studies, Chemical and Physical Biology Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University 52 Oxford Street, NW311 Cambridge, MA 02138 Office: 617-496-4740 Admin: 617-495-5651 (Lin Song) From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> On Behalf Of Mark Wilson Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2023 12:05 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Assistant Professor in Structural Biology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hi Gerlind, To clarify, the position is tenure-leading, where tenure dossiers are typically submitted in the 5th year of employment. If tenure is granted, then the position is a continuous appointment. The 9-month language in the ad refers to the academic year-typically faculty can either choose to take their salary over either 9 or 12 months. Faculty can also raise additional funds for salary over the summer via grants. This is common (nearly universal) in the US system. Importantly, this is _not_ simply a 9-month contract position, which would not make sense for an Assistant Professor. Best regards, Mark Mark A. Wilson (he/him) Professor Department of Biochemistry/Redox Biology Center University of Nebraska N118 Beadle Center 1901 Vine St. Lincoln, NE 68588 From: Gerlind Sulzenbacher <gerlind.sulzenbac...@univ-amu.fr<mailto:gerlind.sulzenbac...@univ-amu.fr>> Date: Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 10:15 AM To: Mark Wilson <mwilso...@unl.edu<mailto:mwilso...@unl.edu>>, CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Assistant Professor in Structural Biology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Non-NU Email ________________________________ Dear Mark, thank you for posting this job offer, probably very interesting for people currently unemployed. Personally, I feel that working conditions and job offers in the scientific field have deteriorated considerably in recent years. I've always been shocked by one-year job offers involving international movements. Now we seem to be down at job offers for 9 months. >From a human point of view, I find this extremely worrying. Sorry to pollute the mailing list with my personal opinions. All the best. Gerlind On 15/10/2023 16:46, Mark Wilson wrote: Dear Colleagues, The Department of Biochemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) invites applications for a tenure-track nine-month (academic year) faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to time-resolved approaches to understanding macromolecular function, multiscale imaging, and integrated computational and experimental approaches to structural biology. Researchers at UNL have collaborations with national user facilities pioneering time-resolved X-ray diffraction techniques and have established a state-of-the-art cryo-EM facility housing a Thermo Scientific Glacios 200 keV Cryo TEM equipped with a Falcon 4i direct electron detector camera, a Selectris zero-loss energy filter, and capability for micro-electron diffraction of crystalline samples. The new cryo-EM facility is part of a strategic growth plan at UNL and complements existing strengths in X-ray crystallography, biophysics, and computation at UNL. Review of applications will begin November 15, 2023 and continue until the position is filled or the search is closed. To view details of the position and the application, go to https://employment.unl.edu<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__employment.unl.edu&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=DPfbtiuJFZDsaMqRC3wABRuP0iJZMKOIsdAAHocfxcg&m=omM5VTT0xab95gHFwdTnG0oopYQQA3i5MYWDnckr31gJfH7cHXeCzlCZ9tBuuRFZ&s=tpk-9Hz4PSzvwzMCQfr_0LcKt2tCW4MpV0nFYXrOhv0&e=>, requisition F_230175 or visit https://employment.unl.edu/postings/88408<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__employment.unl.edu_postings_88408&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=DPfbtiuJFZDsaMqRC3wABRuP0iJZMKOIsdAAHocfxcg&m=omM5VTT0xab95gHFwdTnG0oopYQQA3i5MYWDnckr31gJfH7cHXeCzlCZ9tBuuRFZ&s=7AYvPGLAEIJlyyuGR840p7CBNFhgQRBjdi3qTjfP-Xc&e=>. Click “Apply for this Job” and complete the information form. As an EO/AA employer, the University of Nebraska considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and/or political affiliation. See https://www.unl.edu/equity/notice-nondiscrimination<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.unl.edu_equity_notice-2Dnondiscrimination&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=DPfbtiuJFZDsaMqRC3wABRuP0iJZMKOIsdAAHocfxcg&m=omM5VTT0xab95gHFwdTnG0oopYQQA3i5MYWDnckr31gJfH7cHXeCzlCZ9tBuuRFZ&s=SVg11D3pcFoZezpytGmCjdFBc86bPIf__hDFAcXBz48&e=>. Best regards, Mark Mark A. 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