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24 Apr 2018 | 14:33 GMT

Time management: stressed science needs to slow down

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths

Time management: stressed science needs to slow down

A Saturday morning email from a senior professor arrives. A flurry of Reply All emails swiftly follow. Should I join in — show I’ve read the email on a sunny Saturday?  Read more

Tags:

  • 60 hour work week
  • academic work week
  • academic workload
  • balance
  • eileen parkes
  • productivity academia
  • shortage
  • time
  • time management
  • work week
  • work-life balance

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30 Aug 2017 | 13:00 GMT

How to fix your separation anxiety

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Diversity, People Management, Relationships, Research

How to fix your separation anxiety

I write this as I wait outside my toddler’s summer preschool. It’s the same routine every day — I drop her, she wails, I leave. Later, the teacher reassures me that she’s completely fine as soon as I’m gone.  Read more

Tags:

  • anxiety
  • balance
  • gender
  • juggling
  • komal atta
  • leave
  • maintain relationships
  • maternity leave
  • motherhood
  • negotiation
  • pakistan
  • peaceful
  • PhD
  • research
  • science
  • seperation anxiety
  • stress
  • toddler
  • work-life balance

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22 Mar 2017 | 12:15 GMT

On academic job insecurity and the ultimate tenure

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Careers articles, CV, Funding, Mobility, Perspectives, Postdoc

On academic job insecurity and the ultimate tenure

My latest mini-meltdown came after eight years in research employment, at the beginning of Contract No. 17. It came late. I’d lost a couple of thousand GBP from moving out hastily, lived for two months with my mum, moved far from the city of my university to use the affordable seaside lets in winter, and was about to live out of a suitcase in a youth hostel while my “permanent” accommodation became free. Three masters, PhD, top UK University and all. Most read paper of the month and a “will be delighted to hear about your ongoing work” letter from a senior parliamentary official in my inbox.  Read more

Tags:

  • accomodation
  • balance
  • contract
  • Data
  • grant
  • mila petrova
  • panic
  • postdoc
  • stress
  • work-life balance

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13 Jan 2017 | 13:00 GMT

New to graduate school? Pay attention to those core courses

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Academia, CV, Postgraduate

New to graduate school? Pay attention to those core courses

By the end of your first semester in graduate school, you may find yourself drowning in all sorts of emotional episodes if care is not taken. Often, the excitement and challenges that come with conducting research can be overwhelming. If you’re fortunate enough to have been offered a graduate research assistantship, the dual responsibilities of being a student and researcher can be tricky at first. It is imperative that new students balance that fine line until they become established.  Read more

Tags:

  • assistant
  • balance
  • between
  • careers
  • coursework
  • Entomology
  • fine line
  • graduate
  • Graduate school
  • research
  • semester
  • studies
  • tololope morawo
  • US

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15 Dec 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Do you think your career was harder as a woman in science?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, Academia, Career paths, Competition, Diversity, Events, Faculty, Perspectives, Research, Scientists on the move

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Tags:

  • 2016
  • academia
  • balance
  • career expo
  • diversity
  • gender
  • London
  • men
  • Naturejobs
  • sexism
  • STEM
  • women
  • women in science

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08 Dec 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Have you made any sacrifices in your academic career?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Career paths

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Tags:

  • 2016
  • academia
  • academic
  • balance
  • career expo
  • life
  • London
  • Naturejobs
  • panel
  • sacrifice
  • video
  • work
  • work-life balance

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22 Nov 2016 | 08:00 GMT

Away from Home: Marrying bioinformatics & benchwork

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Career paths, Diversity, Mobility, Perspectives, Scientists on the move

Away from Home: Marrying bioinformatics & benchwork

Today we feature Animesh Shukla, a biotechnologist from Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology in Uttar Pradesh, India who went to Carnegie Mellon University and Indiana University of Bloomington in the USA for PhD. Animesh, who works as a scientist designing ELISA assay kits for Meso Scale Diagnostics now, says planning ahead of time for a postdoctoral career could open up several doors in the land of opportunities.  Read more

Tags:

  • abroad
  • animesh shukla
  • away from home
  • balance
  • bioinformatics
  • biology
  • biotech
  • India
  • medicine
  • meerut
  • mobility
  • Nature
  • nature india
  • Naturejobs
  • work life

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11 Jul 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Balance: Can scientists really have work/life balance?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCEBoston, #ScientistOnTheMove, Blog, Careers articles, Mobility, People Management, Perspectives, Relationships

Balance: Can scientists really have work/life balance?

Naturejobs journalism competition winner Judith M. Reichel  … Read more

Tags:

  • balance
  • Boston
  • career
  • choosing
  • competition
  • compromise
  • expo
  • journalism
  • Judith Reichel
  • Naturejobs
  • new york
  • NJCE
  • perfection
  • perfectionism
  • PhD
  • postdoc
  • science
  • winner
  • work-life balance

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17 Jun 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Babies or career: How to keep young researchers in science

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Careers articles, Collaboration, Communication, Diversity, Faculty, Industry, Internship, Mobility, People Management, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research

Babies or career: How to keep young researchers in science

Naturejobs journalism competition winner Ulrike Träger.  Read more

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  • academia
  • babies
  • balance
  • brain drain
  • career
  • children
  • competition
  • CV
  • double
  • dual
  • families
  • family
  • funding
  • guest contributor
  • Heidelberg
  • journalism
  • Lab
  • leaky pipeline
  • life
  • Naturejobs
  • part time
  • post doc
  • shared
  • stability
  • twin
  • Ulrike Trager
  • women in science
  • work
  • Work/life balance

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06 Apr 2016 | 16:00 GMT

Juggling science and motherhood

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Diversity, People Management, PhD, Relationships, Research, Tenure

Juggling science and motherhood

Guest contributor Seralynne Vann.  Read more

Tags:

  • #andascientist
  • balance
  • career
  • family
  • guest contributor
  • lab life
  • maternity
  • motherhood
  • science
  • Seralynne Vann

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