A group of 17 brave postdocs took the challenge to hike all the way to the end of the world… or actually just the end of San Francisco: Land’s end! We were blessed with a perfect sunny weather, burning our skin red (if we hadn’t used sunscreen). The best views …
A group of twelve brave Lab Postdocs went for the interesting sport of cleaning the ice for incoming stones: curling! This Olympic sport is the fastest growing sport in the world and the virus has now infected us postdocs as well! After a safety instruction and an explanation of the …
We are organizing the thanksgiving edition of the monthly meet & greet on Thursday, November 16th, 2017 at 4pm in the LBNL cafeteria (building 54.) Please join us to enjoy light refreshment and thanksgiving food. Open to all, no registration required.
The Bay Area is full of wonderful places to go hiking, and every months Berkeley Lab postdocs get together for a hike, to get to know their fellow and share their science, but also get inspired by the breathtaking views! All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. – Friedrich …
For the National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we are organizing the Game of divisions, where each division is represented by a postdoc, who will represent his house for the control of the Iron Stool. The talks will be 3min long, and the jury will be led by lab director Mike Witherell, …
The main auditorium of Berkeley Lab was almost full to hear about Quantum Computing from Shane Caldwell, Quantum Engineer at Rigetti, a Berkeley-based Quantum Computing start-up. The company has attracted a lot of interest recently (The Quantum Computer Factory That’s Taking on Google and IBM – Wired) with its quantum …
With high rents in the bay area, sure postdocs can buy no house, but at least they can get avocado and have a good time! Postdocs at Berkeley Lab always love to talk about how they handle the infinitely large and the infinitely small, and fear no pun.
Postdocs at Berkeley Lab were thrilled to learn about how to best prepare for interviews, and get to know all the tricks they can use to attract the attention of companies by staffing agency. The talk, part of BLPA Career Seminars series, was given by Nina Mazurova, a talent partner …
Usually, for Series X, we like to talk about things past and we invite renowned scientists to talk about their journey in science. But this time, we had a different kind of scientist — a journalist — and it was our delight to welcome Alexis Madrigal, with the photos of the …
On April 3rd, 2017, we had Catharine Adams (@scienceismetal) from UC Berkeley presenting “How to use social media to advance your research career”, where she enjoined young researcher to engage a larger audience and share their research with non-scientist. The corresponding material is available here, and you can watch a …
