Only if you have realistic expectations of what it may lead to. For the average postdoc there is only a small likelihood that it will lead to a permanent academic position. It is worth looking at the talk Challenges being faced by postdoctoral scholars in Canada. (Is it an "academic parking lot"?). Although focussed on Canada most of the issues are relevant world wide.
Ultimately, this is a very personal decision dependent on your own values and goals. But it should be a well informed decision.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Superconductivity: a poster child for emergence
Superconductivity beautifully illustrates the characteristics of emergent properties. Novelty. Distinct properties of the superconducting s...

-
Is it something to do with breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation? In molecular spectroscopy you occasionally hear this term thro...
-
I welcome discussion on this point. I don't think it is as sensitive or as important a topic as the author order on papers. With rega...
-
If you look on the arXiv and in Nature journals there is a continuing stream of people claiming to observe superconductivity in some new mat...
No comments:
Post a Comment