u/OpinionsRdumb

So far I have only seen two options that seem incredibly sketch. I am shocked this is not on the market given the rise in microplastics (I am a molecular biologist and the research that is coming out on microplastics is horrifying. Including a recent a study on dental wear plastics). Both the fancy guards from the dentist and the OTC ones are plastic based and the type of plastic they use (acrylic (hard) or ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA)) are known to leech off microplastics that are toxic and potentially carcinogenic (obv the research is very new on this so take with a grain of salt).

Does anyone have ANY recommendations out there? I am straight up considering starting a business to get this product out. I believe in several years the entire market is going to switch to a plastic free option.

But for now I am worried about my own bruxism and clenching.

Something that I feel gets lost in my CV is that while I do have a good amount of phd and postdoc fellowships, I feel like they got lost with all my other awards as well as being mixed in with smaller fellowships that were small in funding amounts.

Is there a way to highlight the large fellowships without breaking any "norms"?

For one, I don't even know if you can list the amounts for postdoc fellowships? I see varying answers online. (I am in Biology broadly speaking).

If not, is there a way to highlight these fellowships (some are not well known but have very large funding amounts) so that PIs looking at my CV will understand it clearly without having to look things up.

Any info on formatting CVs or resources people use would be greatly appreciated!!

Oh and apply for as many soft money sources of funding in case I do not land a TT position this year?

Oh and also apply for any international TT position I can find because that will also likely be my best shot as well.

And this is all while I am pushing early-mid 30s making a salary all my friends had when they graduated college 10 years ago....

I guess its a good thing I like research... >.>

But I think at some point we need to have a conversation about how many PhDs we are generating in this country... they really do not explain this stuff to you properly when you start a PhD