Postdoc-to-Postdoc Science Policy
On Friday, June 5th, BLPA hosted the Postdoc-to-Postdoc brown bag with Kathy Shield, a co-founder of the Science Policy Group at Berkeley. Here you can find the slides.
Cultural Lunch – British Columbia
During or Cultural Lunch on May 22nd, we travelled together with Karol Krizka, a postdoc in the Physics Division, to British Columbia, Canada. If you missed the talk, you can watch it here.
BLPA Solidarity with the Black Community
Dear Berkeley Lab Postdoc Community, We are heartbroken and outraged by the recent instances of violence against the Black community. As we mourn the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, we recognize that their killings are only the latest examples of the devastating inequalities and systemic racial …
Cultural Lunch – India
On Friday, May 8th, Pramod Bhuvankar, a postdoc in the Energy Geosciences Division, presented the Cultural Lunch “India: The land of paradoxes, and unity in diversity”. If you missed it, you can watch it here.
Cultural Lunch – Spain
Leticia Arnedo-Sanchez and Sergio Carrero Romero brought us for a journey (ofc, virtual) full of delicious food, beautiful nature, festivals, and art to Spain! Did you miss the talk? Watch it here.
Berkeley Science Fellows Program
Join the Berkeley Science Fellows Program: Part-time on-campus internships for Postdocs at UC Berkeley startups! The Berkeley Postdoc Entrepreneurship Program (BPEP) in partnership with the Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs Program and Skydeck is recruiting postdocs for the Berkeley Science Fellows Program. In this program, Postdocs are partnered with startups from the Skydeck over a 3-12 month period to help the startups solve …
Bake-Together
To uplift our everyday life during the Shelter-In-Place, our Social Committee organizes a series of bake-together online meetings. Led by a pastry wizard, Louise Frenck, we prepared a chocolate cake, lemon cake, and apple crumble so far. We meet weekly on Sundays at 3 PM.
Movie Nights
Our weekly movie nights make the movie watching during Shelter-in-Place a bit more social. Every week we vote for the movie we watch, and during the Netflix Party on Fridays with Berkeley Lab postdocs and friends, we comment real-time on the action on our screens. We have already watched: Outbreak …
Cultural Lunch – France
During our Cultural Lunch on Friday, April 10th we travelled to France to learn more about delicious French food from Louise Frenck from the Materials Sciences Division. You can watch Louise’s presentation here.
Cultural Lunch – Georgia
Thanks to Zara Bagdasarian, a postdoc in the Nuclear Science Division, on Friday, March 27th, we visited the country of Georgia! You can watch Zara’s presentation here and find her slides here.