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Something new from VersatilePhD.
We've launched The PhD Founder Brief — weekly global intelligence for doctoral entrepreneurs building ventures from their research.
Free. Here's what it is and why we built it 🧵

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Library & Information Science PhD who doesn’t want a faculty job? Reddit, Capital Group, the Smithsonian & NYPL are hiring for exactly your skills.

Read this week’s PhD Pivot: https://t.co/oUy4QmGMgc

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The lab bench was just the warm-up.

This week’s PhD Pivot: roles for pharmacology & biomedical PhDs, from medical science liaison to drug safety to NCI. 51.9% of new biomedical PhDs now go to industry, up from 27.5% in 2004.

Go here: https://t.co/gp3KhjS4Sq

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Engineering PhDs: Applied Materials, Boston Dynamics, and Anduril aren't lowering the bar for a doctorate, they're hiring for one.
Apply links in this week's PhD Pivot: https://t.co/jP7Lvxh0yo
#PhD #AcademicJobs #Engineering

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A literature PhD is worth $245–280/hour right now.

That's what one AI company pays humanities PhDs to evaluate how AI systems reason and write.

This week's PhD Pivot: where English & Humanities PhDs are landing outside academia. 👇
https://t.co/OCHZbNwYs5

#PhDCareers

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Anthropology PhDs: Google, Netflix, and U.S. Special Operations Command aren't lowering the bar for a doctorate, they're hiring for one.

Open roles for impact, in this week's PhD Pivot: [link]

Read it here: https://t.co/Mykxye5AnC

#PhD #AcademicJobs #Anthropology

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Linguistics PhDs: Apple, Spotify, and Duolingo aren't lowering the bar for a doctorate, they're hiring aggressively.

Major open roles in this week's PhD Pivo: https://t.co/QMVPcTT2eI

#PhD #AcademicJobs #Linguistics

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Neuroscience PhDs: Flagship Pioneering, Ōura, and Anthropic aren't lowering the bar for a PhD, they're hiring one.

Plentiful open roles, apply now in this week's PhD Pivot 👉 https://t.co/iOcfGJgl7J

#PhD #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience

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Education PhDs: Duolingo, ETS, and the US Dept of Education aren't lowering the bar for a doctorate, they're requiring it.

Open roles, apply links in this week's PhD Pivot: https://t.co/P6STKiwWgG
#PhD #AcademicJobs #EdTech

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Environmental science PhDs have broad application. Our #PhDPivot this week provides a brief representative positions at Amazon, Google, Verisk, USAA, EDF & more, where a PhD is the job requirement.

Visit https://t.co/P6STKiwor8

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Name a non-academic job that requires a political science PhD.

Here are ten.

Think tanks. Tech policy. Intelligence. International development. The credential travels further than most programs let on.

Visit us at 👉 https://t.co/P6STKiwor8

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"Name one non-academic job that requires a sociology PhD."

Here are eight.

This week's PhD Pivot at Career Lab: https://t.co/P6STKiwWgG

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Read here: https://t.co/k5d72ucwg8

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Neither the VC's counsel nor the TTO's counsel will flag the conflicts between your university license and your investor term sheet. Not because they don't care. Because nobody asks them to look.

This week's PhD Founder Brief. Link below.

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The pharma hiring recovery is real. It's just not happening at the bench.

This week's PhD Pivot covers the regulatory, medical affairs, and health economics roles.

AbbVie. AstraZeneca. Biogen. Pfizer. Sana Biotechnology.

→ https://t.co/ZPVzYjdg3R

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Read the full post here: https://t.co/IvzSEXYwW2

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After 12 issues of the PhD Founder Brief, we've created the Evidence-Based Venture Framework — and PROVE sequence.

P — Positioning
R — Resources
O — Operation Proof
V — Value Protection
E — Entity Structure

More here and link in the comments.
https://t.co/Wl5TT839FU

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Read here: https://t.co/8YLdJjumZb

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Most PhD founders treat regulatory work as something separate from building a company.
It isn't. It's a funding strategy. This week's PhD Founder Brief covers why, with two live advisory cases in medtech and deep tech energy.
Link below.

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Does cybersecurity feel like a world that was built for someone else? It wasn't.

This week's PhD Pivot maps the research, governance, and threat intelligence roles and who's actively hiring for it right now.

https://t.co/ZPVzYjdg3R

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Psychology PhD. Two paths right now:

Join the company building the platform
Build the platform

This week's PhD Pivot covers both.

→ https://t.co/ZPVzYjdg3R