Recent content by mam121

I'm also highly anti nepotism-based departments. They actually hid they were married until months after I got here (the husband never mentioned her existence during the negotiations). Google searches never revealed it either. At least this will be a good story someday!

Thanks to everyone for the replies. As to the initial expectations, I was told I'd be working directly with the guy who recruited me (the director of the group here). When I got here, though, he and his wife had decided I should keep working on what I'd done my dissertation on, but that I...

I am a postdoc in Spain, ending my first year of research. My bosses are currently trying to terminate my contract a year early, since (a) I haven't published anything (given 8 talks and attended 3 teleconferences, though), and (b) the PhD student whose dissertation they assigned me to direct...