Naturejobs Blog

We’re no longer publishing career stories from our global community of scientists on this platform.  Instead they’ll be posted in a shiny new home at nature.com/careers alongside the latest ...

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/08/01/announcement-some-of-the-naturejobs-blog-is-moving-house/

“We should not consider it a disaster that someone trained to a high level doesn’t remain in academia,” Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, president of the European Research Council, told a panel dis...

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/07/30/how-to-track-the-lost-generation-of-scientists/

Sometimes, a DNA sequencer is more than it seems. In this month’s Technology Feature, I talk to the researchers who have figured out ways to squeeze new life from an outdated DNA sequencer, the...

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/07/24/techblog-pacbios-are-hackable-too/

This is a sponsored post from Nature Research Editing Service, part of Springer Nature  … Read more

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/07/17/writing-an-academic-cv-in-english-7-tips/

Joining the ranks of more than 60 institutions and graduate programmes across the United States, the biological sciences division of the University of Chicago in Illinois has cut a standard test ...

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/07/13/university-drops-test-scores-from-graduate-admissions-criteria/

I submitted my PhD thesis on the evolution of jumping genes in December 2016, four days before Christmas. It wasn’t perfect — in many ways, it wasn’t even good. By the end of my graduate st...

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/07/09/done-is-better-than-perfect-overcoming-phd-perfectionism/

“Exciting new line of attack for aggressive breast cancer”  … Read more

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/07/06/why-scientists-should-communicate-hope-whilst-avoiding-hype/

Julie Gould discusses problem solving, research integrity, and the importance of feedback in PhD programmes at the 2018 ORPHEUS conference, held in Iceland in May.  Read more

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/07/04/how-to-run-a-creative-and-diverse-phd-programme/

In many undergrad STEM courses, high-stakes exams — such as mid-terms and finals — determine as much as 60-70% of the student’s overall grade. However, this emphasis on tests may be inadver...

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/07/02/lowering-the-stakes-on-exams-could-help-close-the-gender-gap-in-stem-classes/

I’ve already written about how PhDs can prepare for and decide whether or not they should pursue a postdoc. Here, I will discuss what more universities and funding agencies should be doing as s...

https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/06/27/how-could-universities-and-funders-improve-the-situation-for-postdoctoral-scientists/