Canadian researchers are thrilled by “the largest investment in graduate students and postdocs in over 21 years”, says Kaitlin Kharas, a PhD student and executive director of the group #SupportOurScience. We're talking 30% or higher here. #Academia #AcademicChatter https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01124-2?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=49a8813c3d-briefing-dy-20240418&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-49a8813c3d-50179668
#SupportOurScience
@jsdodge This is great news, to be honest I'd given up hope that the budget would be altered. Credit goes to the amazing work by the #SupportOurScience organizers to inform and lobby so this is passed
There’s finally some good news for Canadian science in the 2024 budget announcement. Thanks to the #SupportOurScience organizers for keeping up the pressure!
#Canadians in #science: please join the #SupportOurScience campaign to ensure that Budget 2024 increases federal support for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars!
@erinnacland @academicchatter @academicsunite
Press release from #SupportOurScience on the lack of new investment to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the 2023 Fall Economic Statement
This is infuriating. I just attended a big announcement of the new Canada Excellence Research Chairs, which will shower a few dozen PIs with nearly C$250M over the next eight years. Meanwhile, the base funding to support the junior scholars at the foundation of this pyramid has been flat for over twenty years.
#SupportOurScience #Canada #science
From: @erinnacland
https://fediscience.org/@erinnacland/111454786303382791
This is an excellent piece on the precarious state of Canadian science, including interviews with two leaders of #SupportOurScience. The Trudeau government can talk all they want about their “historic level of support for science and research,” but the foundation is rotting. The base funding to support students and postdocs has been stagnant for over 20 years.
20 yrs ago I was a new PhD student with an $18K/y scholarship, which increased to $30K/y when I managed to get a CGS-D scholarship from CIHR (+ $2K top-up from my supervisor’s research grant). Despite 52% inflation, many grad students are now making less than I did, and most post-docs are paid far less than the $70K/y I made with an NSERC-IRDF at Tekmira ($ABUS) in 2009.
Grad students and post-docs are the future of science and need a living wage!! #SupportOurScience
Canadians: Please sign the latest Canadian House of Commons petition calling for increased federal funding for graduate students and postdocs through scholarships, fellowships & grants. Sign here & please boost: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4457 #SupportOurScience
#SupportOurScience UBC arriving at the plaza in front of the Koerner library which houses the Adminstration offices.
Better funding for grad students and post-docs should be a priority for Canadian science funding.
This means more in direct fellowships and more for grants for faculty to be able to support our students properly.
Great to see this turnout at the #SupportOurScience walkout for living wages for grad students and post-docs across Canada. This one at the University of British Columbia.
I see a few other faculty members here. Better funding for grad students and post docs is important for us too.
SFU Physics is getting ready to Support Our Science!
#supportourscience
Walking out with #SupportOurScience to demand reasonable support to graduate students, who haven't seen an incentive in 🇨🇦 federal support in 20 years. Figured it was a good time to wear my #FutureOfResearch riffraff tee
I share a little piece concerning the nation-wide walk out for #SupportOurScience #SoutenirNotreScience today in Québec and all Canada.
"International Workers’ Day: Funding for science stagnates in Canada and Chile"
See you in the streets!
Cross posting from Twitter
New Globe and Mail article with interviews from Dr. Sivani Baskaran, Dr. Maydianne Andrade, Dr. Marc Johnson, and myself (pictured, looking very end-of-PhD exhausted).
Learn more at http://supportourscience.ca. Get involved, write your MP, and #SupportOurScience on May 1, follow @SupportOurSci (Twitter)
for updates!
NATIONWIDE WALKOUT: If you think 🇨🇦 grad students & post docs deserve more funding from @JustinTrudeau & @cafreeland through awards & grants then join #SupportOurScience & walkout on May 1 #mayday #budget2023
Watch for more details here & at supportourscience.ca on TUESDAY
#ISupportGradStudents #ISupportPostdocs–#Budget2023 means that Canada, for all its lofty rhetoric, does not support young scientists
#SupportOurScience
Thank you Senator Kutcher
who brought awareness of #SupportOurScience’s goals to the Senate Chamber this afternoon, and to Sarah Laframboise for representing us in the gallery!
#SupportOurScience update! Over 1790 letters sent to MPs so far! If you haven't contacted your representative yet, check out our easy-to-use tool and template at http://supportourscience.ca
Cross post from Twitter:
In the House of Commons
today, MP Richard Cannings
called this week's Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development
announcement 'the same old investment with a shiny new bow'.
ISED Minister François-Phillippe Champagne agreed 'we need to do MORE' for graduate and postdoctoral researchers.
But when will that translate into NEW $? #SupportOurScience
Video clip viewable here:
https://twitter.com/wishartae/status/1593652390544265217
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