one kind of answer is that : field mismatch especially to cross field TT AP position: for example: there is no one can do both Statistics/Bayesian PhD and wet Molecular Biology PhD training in her/his single studying life. then below TT AP position, > Tenure-track faculty position in computational biology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine United States-MD-Baltimore > Ph.D. in Computer Science, Biostatistics, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Genomics, or related fields. their search committee can judge dear as a horse if they want.. http://www.iscb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i or below position > Assistant Professor, Statistics, Tenure-Track UC Santa Barbara Open Sep 17, 2013 through Mar 31, 2014 Next review date: November 30th, 2013 The Department of Statistics and Applied Probability invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in Statistics, starting July 1, 2014. Qualifications: research and teaching excellence and PhD in Statistics, biostatistics and related fields. Preference will be given for research on methodology and applications relating to biometrics or environmental science. n.b. their search committee can also select from either theoretical statistics physics PhD or NGS Bioinformatics PhD from, http://bayesian.org/forums/jobs/6199