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PPstinker 

Someone who is mean to people and does stupid things.
my friend is a PPstinker because he threw up on my dog.
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postdoc-osphere

A term to describe the realm of short term university appointments inhabited by postdocs.
"Did he get that professor job."

"No way dude, now he's applying for another post-doc. I wonder if he'll be be spending his whole life in the

postdoc-osphere."
Somebody who has recently completed a PhD and has no idea what do with their life after discovering they are completely unemployable. Anyone with the title "Post Doc" is a bright intellectual person without direction who is killing time waiting for the right job opportunity.
She was a postdoc at the university for ten years before she discovered that she had to find a permanent job to pay for the kitty litter to keep her family together.
postdoc by the lazy ass destroyer November 13, 2005

postdict 

To report what already happened in the form of a prediction.
I postdict that Obama won the 2008 presidential election.
postdict by julesk January 4, 2012
A postdoc is a Ph.D. holder who has not been able to secure a stable academic position and therefore sticks around in different labs. A postdoc often lives off soft money in a series of 2-/3-year appointments, until he or she lands a tenure-track position, leaves academia for an industry job, finds a room in the parents' basement, or commit suicide in despair.
Jane: "You know, something's eating away that leftover muffins on the table. Must be mice or roaches hiding in this lab."

Tom: "No, that's our postdoc John."
postdoc by a postdoc February 17, 2008

Going Postdoctoral

Describes a situation when a person with a PhD goes on a killing rampage.

A variation of going postal, but used to describe a person with a doctoral degree.
" But of course lots of people--even Harvard grads!--suffer career setbacks, and few of them go postal (or should we say postdoctoral?). source: "Going Postdoctoral The bizarre case of Prof. Amy Bishop, Wall Street Journal Online, February 18, 2010.
Going Postdoctoral by Oceanscribe February 19, 2010