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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
When Amodei was still a postdoc at Stanford, the two lived together in a group house that also included Dario’s sister, Daniela, spending late nights talking about physics.
—Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
Nara Parameswaran, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
My postdoc prospects after finishing a doctorate in physics at Harvard were in Europe.
—Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The mystery of how this parasite manages the asymmetric expression of its genetic manual has been a cold case in the back of my mind since my days as a postdoc.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
When Amodei was still a postdoc at Stanford, the two lived together in a group house that also included Dario’s sister, Daniela, spending late nights talking about physics.
—Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
Adjective
The long-term implications of these barriers could be grim, especially because more than half of the country’s postdoc scholars in science, technology, engineering and math, and around a third of the country’s graduate students, are visa holders.
—Nara Parameswaran, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
My postdoc prospects after finishing a doctorate in physics at Harvard were in Europe.
—Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Postdoc.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postdoc. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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