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Nature Cell Biology on the gender imbalance in academia

Nature Cell Biology's August Editorial (11, 915; 2009) focuses on the issue of why women remain under-represented in senior academic positions, despite similar numbers of male and female graduates. The imbalance is best addressed by focusing on the reasons for...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on August 20, 2009

The week on Nature Network: Friday 10 July

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors and communicators. Readers are welcome to join any of these discussions by visiting the links...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on July 10, 2009

The week on Nature Network: Friday 3 July

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors and communicators. Readers are welcome to join any of these discussions by visiting the links...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on July 03, 2009

Thursday 25 June: Women in Science, Engineering and Technology – and the recession

The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology is hosting an evening of speakers and discussion on Thursday 25 June at the Institute of Physics,London, 6pm – 8.30pm (approx). There are some spaces left – men and...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on June 19, 2009

What's on nature.com blogs: May 09

Here's a summmary of some posts from nature.com staff blogs over the past month or so that might be of interest to scientists as authors, communicators and peer reviewers: Methagora : Nature Methods announces online methods, in which the journal...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on June 09, 2009

The week on Nature Network: Friday 5 June

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors and communicators. Readers are welcome to join any of these discussions by visiting the links...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on June 05, 2009

The Week on Nature Network: Friday 29 May

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors and communicators. Readers are welcome to join any of these discussions by visiting the links...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on May 29, 2009

The female underclass in science

The European Commission Gender Challenge in Research Funding report discussed in one of today's Nature Editorials (Nature 459, 299; 2009 - free to access online) "was written by a 17-strong expert group chaired by a woman and containing five men....

Posted by Maxine Clarke on May 21, 2009

The week on Nature Network: Friday 1 May

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors and communicators. The Nature Network week column is archived here. "The next time you are...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on May 01, 2009

The week on Nature Network: Friday 17 April

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors and communicators. The Nature Network week column is archived here. T. Ryan Gregory highlights an...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on April 17, 2009

The week on Nature Network: Friday 20 March

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors and communicators. The Nature Network week column is archived here. Research institutions and universities are...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on March 20, 2009

The week on Nature Network: Friday 6 February

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors. The Nature Network week column is archived here. A detailed dissection of the new J....

Posted by Maxine Clarke on February 06, 2009

The week on Nature Network: Friday 5 December

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors. The Nature Network week column is archived here. What type of licence should authors choose...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on December 05, 2008

Research rewards are worth the effort

Tracey L. Rogers of the University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia writes in Correspondence (Nature 456, 29; 2008): The reasons women drop out of science are complex, and Timothy Roper and Larissa Conradt have hit on an important...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on November 19, 2008

The week on Nature Network: Friday 31 October

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors. The Nature Network week column is archived here. Join Nature Networkers and other scientists on...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on October 31, 2008

The week on Nature Network: Friday 3 October

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors. The Nature Network week column is archived here. Catherine Mavriplis of the US National Science...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on October 03, 2008

Upcoming scientific events in Second Life

On Monday 22 September, the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology will be running their first consultation session, A Vision for Science and Society, in the virtual world of Second Life, at Second Nature Island. (Time:...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on September 18, 2008

Nature's special issue on 'big data'

The Big Data special package of articles in this week’s issue of Nature (4 September 2008) looks at how massive influxes of data are changing the way science is done in many fields, and includes a feature story on ‘Wikiomics’...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on September 08, 2008

Encouraging women to participate in science

Ashleigh Griffin of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh reviews (Nature 454, 827; 2008) the book Women in Science, Engineering and Technology: Three Decades of UK Initiatives by Alison Phipps (Trentham Books: 2008. 184 pp. $16.99, £25.50). The...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on August 25, 2008

Europe's science forum

Although the Euroscience Open Forum is a meeting to be proud of, its organizers should aim even higher, according to a recent Editorial in Nature (454, 552; 2008). The text of the Editorial: When a small group of academics founded...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on August 19, 2008

The week on Nature Network: Friday 15 August

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors. The Nature Network week column is archived here. Craig Rowell introduces the Thousand Thoughts project...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on August 15, 2008

The week on Nature Network: Friday 9 May

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors. The Nature Network week column is archived here. An early collaboration between academics and industry...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on May 09, 2008

Women physicists suffer gender bias

Sherry Towers, a particle physicist who is now a statistician, reports a study using public databases to study the career paths of 57 former postdoctoral researchers from Fermilab who worked on the Run II Dzero experiment to examine if males...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on April 24, 2008

The week on Nature Network: Friday 11 April

This weekly Nautilus column highlights some of the online discussion at Nature Network in the preceding week that is of relevance to scientists as authors. The Nature Network week column is archived here. Jennifer Rohn has once again sparked a...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on April 11, 2008

One woman is still not enough

From a recent Editorial in Nature (451, 869; 2008): "Seven years ago, Mitiko Go, a biophysicist then at Nagoya University, told Nature about a disturbing experience she had had at a meeting of the university's Division of Biological Science (see...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on March 05, 2008

Under-representation of women in geoscience

Nautilus has featured many posts about gender issues in scientific research, as can be seen at this link. The question of opportunities for women is one that endures: hard on the heels of two studies in EMBO Reports last November...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on February 05, 2008

Tribulations of women in academic research

Frank Gannon, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland and senior scientist at the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) highlights the women issue in his editorial in the current issue of EMBO Reports ( 8, 11, 975; 2007) about two studies...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on November 15, 2007

Opportunities for women in early genetics

There is an interesting historical piece in the current issue of Nature Reviews Genetics (8, 897-902; 2007) by Marsha Richmond of Wayne State University, Detroit, entitled Opportunities for Women in Early Genetics. From the abstract: "Although women have long been...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on October 22, 2007

Academic managers can ensure equal pay

From Nature's current issue (Nature 449, 769; 2007): Aggressive academic management can correct pay disparities between male and female scientists, say researchers. Their study assesses the effects of intervention to equalize salaries at the University of Arizona's College of Medicine...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on October 19, 2007

Are women more engaged in collaborative research?

Charles S. Hendricksen of the University of Washinton writes in a comment to the post "A female road of science": It has been my personal experience that women are more inclined to engage in collaborative efforts. In my dissertation research...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on September 25, 2007

Difficulties for women in international reserarch

Asha Gopinathan of GenSci-e-Tech, Kerala, India, writes in Nature's Correspondence pages (Nature 448, 749; 2007): The difficulties facing women and under-represented minorities in science and engineering are highlighted in your Naturejobs Special Reports 'Beyond the glass ceiling' and 'Closing the...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on August 27, 2007

Women (and men) of science

In an Editorial this week entitled "Men [sic]" (Nature 448, 728; 2007), Nature opines that its 1869 mission statement is out of date. From the Editorial: It was 1833 when the English polymath William Whewell first coined the word 'scientist'....

Posted by Maxine Clarke on August 17, 2007

New rector for ETH

From Nature 448; 117 (12 July 2007): The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich has completed recruitment for its top positions with the appointment of Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach, a chemistry professor there, as the university's first-ever female rector. She...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on July 12, 2007

A female road of science

Dr Monica Zoppè writes: The Nature News story 'Applicants challenge male order at Howard Hughes' (Nature 447, 242-243; 17 May 2007) highlights only some aspects of the gender imbalance that dominates the science system everywhere. All scientific funding agencies distribute...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on June 28, 2007

Strengthening gender equity for physics researchers

This month's Editorial in Nature Physics (3, 363; 2007) is entitled Take the lead, and is about how to tackle the under-representation of women at all career levels in physics research. From the Editorial: Last month, a workshop entitled Gender...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on June 04, 2007

Congratulations to Annette Thomas

Congratulations to Annette Thomas, head of the Nature Publishing Group, who has won the Kim Scott Walwyn prize, set up in 2004 to celebrate outstanding achievements by women in publishing. The prize honours a career that includes 14 years at...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on May 14, 2007

Starting at the top

Scientific élites retain a severe gender imbalance, according to an Editorial in this week's Nature (447, 115-116; 2007). Seventy-two names are on the list of new members of the US National Academy of Sciences, elected on 1 May. Nine stand...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on May 11, 2007

Breaking barriers project for women in science

Where are the women in science? And what would attract them from other sectors? So asks Jan Bogg, director of the Breaking Barriers Project at the University of Liverpool, UK, in NatureJobs this week (Nature 447, 114; 2007). She discusses...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on May 08, 2007

Why so few women speakers at scientific conferences?

Pamela Silver writes in Correspondence this week (Nature 446, 856; 2007): Mary Ann Holmes and Suzanne O'Connell comment on the lack of women in the academic ranks in your Recruiters article "Leaks in the pipeline" (Nature 446, 346; 2007). In...

Posted by Maxine Clarke on April 25, 2007

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