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01 Aug 2018 | 14:30 GMT

Announcement: The Naturejobs blog is moving house

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Admin, 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 print news and features from Nature’s careers section. We believe this will better serve our authors and audience.  Read more

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16 Aug 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Management 101 for scientists – three rules for managing a successful team

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Blog, Careers articles, Collaboration, Communication, Industry, Research, US

Management 101 for scientists – three rules for managing a successful team

Good management can make an enormous difference in the success and productivity of any team. Unfortunately, new managers are rarely chosen because they have demonstrated skill at managing people. After 10-15 years of training, many scientists will be expected to run an academic lab or manage a team outside of academia with little experience and almost certainly no formal training. The kind of smarts and the types of skills that it takes to be a good scientist are not the same ones it takes to be a competent manager (much less a really good one). While getting your PhD or doing a postdoc, few science trainees have opportunities to work on their emotional intelligence or to hone their delegation skills.  Read more

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26 Jun 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Science’s fake journal epidemic

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Communication, Open access, Publishing, Research, Technology

Science’s fake journal epidemic

The landscape of scholarly communication falls into two main categories: a paid access business model, where journals require readers to pay for access to an article or a subscription to the entire journal itself; or open access journals, which charge authors to publish but make content available free of charge and without restrictions to readers. The rise in popularity of open access journals has resulted in more than 50 per cent of new research now being made available free online. Legitimate open access journals such as PLOS and BioMed Central have been essential in allowing greater access to science, a higher volume of published work, improved education and a greater scope for scientists to publish negative results.  Read more

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12 Jun 2017 | 12:00 GMT

The discomfort is worth it: share more

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Blog, Communication, Perspectives, Research

The discomfort is worth it: share more

When David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Stanford, wrote the New York Times bestseller Incognito, I read it voraciously. The world of the mind opened to me. My subconscious brain took on an entirely new meaning to me. Eagleman’s research felt salient, relevant, and crucial to our understanding and progress as a species.  Read more

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15 Mar 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Promoting open science from a pub: the Panton Principles

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Admin, Ask the expert, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, CV, Data, Research, Technology

Promoting open science from a pub: the Panton Principles

In a world where scientific discovery is driven by impact factor and funding, the idea of open data may seem idealistic. But the open data movement has been growing since the early 2000s, spurred by the rise of big data and computational capabilities. For the sake of reproducibility in science, we need to encourage data sharing after publication.  Read more

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31 Jan 2017 | 08:00 GMT

Away from home: Lovelock during postdoc

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Diversity, People Management, Relationships, Research, Scientists on the move

Away from home: Lovelock during postdoc

The ‘Away from home‘ blogging series features Indian scientists working in foreign labs recounting their experience of working there, the triumphs and challenges, the cultural differences and what they miss about India. They also offer useful tips for other scientists headed abroad. You can join in the online conversation using the #postdochat hashtag.  Read more

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17 Jan 2017 | 08:00 GMT

Away from home: Why the postdoc phase is crucial

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Careers articles, Collaboration, Diversity, Mobility, People Management, Research, Scientists on the move

Away from home: Why the postdoc phase is crucial

The ‘Away from home‘ blogging series features Indian postdocs working in foreign labs recounting their experience of working there, the triumphs and challenges, the cultural differences and what they miss about India. They also offer useful tips for their Indian postdocs headed abroad. You can join in the online conversation using the #postdochat hashtag.  Read more

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12 Jan 2017 | 17:00 GMT

Omnity opens multilingual semantic searches up to academia

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Technology

When preparing a grant or publication, where can you turn for new ideas? You can bounce ideas off colleagues, search PubMed and Web of Science for related literature, and maybe take a trip down Google lane. But it’s difficult to get outside one’s particular area of expertise — to mine the opportunities at cross-disciplinary boundaries  unless you know what you’re looking for. The developers of a new document search engine hope to make such cognitive leaps easier, finds Jeff Perkel.  Read more

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04 Jan 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Let’s talk about #SciComm

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Communication, In the news, Perspectives, Social media, Technology

Let’s talk about #SciComm

There are plenty of reasons to become active in the field of science communication, and for many early career researchers (ECRs) still exploring research, it’s a great way to find their niche and voice their opinions.  Read more

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30 Nov 2016 | 17:00 GMT

Opening doors to open data at #scidata16

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Admin, Careers articles, Collaboration, Data, PhD, Research, Technology

Opening doors to open data at #scidata16

The Publishing Better Science through Better Data conference, or #scidata16 for short, took place at the Wellcome Collection in London at the end of October. This one-day event organised by the journal Scientific Data, Springer Nature and the Wellcome Trust explored the challenges facing early-career researchers as we enter the era of open data.  Read more

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