Research quality declines with scientists' age, study finds
Authors argue this means universities should spend less on senior academics and give promising younger scholars more of a chance
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Faking it
In the face of routine rejection, many scientists must learn to cope with the insidious beast that is impostor syndrome.
Insider's view of faculty search kicks off discussion online
A Harvard professor reveals how his hiring committee whittles down the pile of job applications.
You want a letter? You write it for me
A few years back, I asked two colleagues for letters of support for my grant proposal. One colleague drafted a letter personally. The other, citing heavy time pressures, asked me to draft the letter myself.
Wrapping it up in a person
Report examining employment and earnings outcomes for Ph.D. recipients.
Burning out faculty at doctoral research universities
Grantsmanship and service activities appeared as the most critical factors associated with faculty burnout.
The postdoc's dilemma: when to give up on romance and file for divorce?
For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?
How to build a better PhD
There are too many PhD students for too few academic jobs - but with imagination, the problem could be solved.
A spatiotemporal analysis of Brazilian science from the perspective of researchers' career trajectories
A spatiotemporal analysis of Brazilian science from the perspective of researchers' career trajectories
An analysis of the education of researchers that constitute the main Brazilian research groups, using data on about 6,000 researchers.
Massive pool of US biomedical postdocs starts to shrink
A decades-long surge in the numbers of US biomedical postdocs may finally have ended..
2015 Nature graduate-student survey
Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.
Pressure to publish may discourage innovative research
The researchers' conclusions are drawn from a database they assembled of more than 6 million scholarly publications in biomedicine and chemistry.
Recruiting or academic poaching?
Hiring a few research stars uses up resources that might otherwise support a number of promising younger researchers.
Toward a sustainable biomedical research enterprise: Finding consensus and implementing recommendations
Toward a sustainable biomedical research enterprise: Finding consensus and implementing recommendations
[32]Crowdfunding | Is crowdfunding a viable source of clinical trial research funding?
Public engagement means 'sacrificing' academic career
Perception that time should be spent improving research prowess.
Not a valid requirement for advancing in science
Working longer hours leads to poorer productivity. If you’re trying to impress people and move up the ranks, the solution isn’t to work longer, but to work smarter.
Science professors need leadership training
To drive discovery, scientists heading up research teams large and small need to learn how people operate, argue C. Leiserson and C. McVinney.
SiSOB data extraction and codification
Studying researchers’ CVs shows that moving jobs does not always boost a researcher’s productivity.
A time limit on postdoctoral contracts: the French experience
in 2012 a new law ordered French public employers to offer stable employment to workers after 6 years of short-term contracts. It backfired.
The retirement debate
You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?
Wanted: staff-scientist positions for postdocs
Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.
Reward bioinformaticians
Biological data will continue to pile up unless those who analyse it are recognized as creative collaborators in need of career paths, says Jeffrey Chang.
The future of the postdoc
There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way.
Science doesn't only need sprinters
Reasons for removing time-bound criteria from MRC fellowship applications to help give people the time they need.
Will they stay or will they go?
International graduate students and their decisions to stay or leave the U.S. upon graduation.
An astonishingly small number of elite graduate schools produce the academics who get jobs
An astonishingly small number of elite graduate schools produce the academics who get jobs
An astonishingly small number of elite universities produce an overwhelming number of professors.
Congrats young scientists, you face the worst research funding in 50 years
In an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Dr. Francis Collins, head of NIH, offered a familiar warning to lawmakers considering future appropriations for scientific research.
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