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06 Mar 2018 | 08:00 GMT

When conferences collide with family needs

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Diversity, Events, Faculty, Perspectives, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research, Social media, Tenure, US

When conferences collide with family needs

Calisi, a behavioural neuroscientist at the University of California, Davis, and a group of 45 other scientist-parents, have turned their frustrations into a call for action. In a paper published online Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers detail the shortcomings of past conferences and offer a blueprint for making conferences more welcoming and accessible to parents of young children.  Read more

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  • breastfeeding
  • child
  • childcare
  • conference
  • discrimination
  • diversity
  • family
  • gender
  • gender bias
  • mother
  • parent
  • scientific conference
  • scientific society
  • single parent
  • work-life balance

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14 Feb 2018 | 13:00 GMT

Como Se Dice “DNA”?

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Blog, Communication, Relationships, Research

Como Se Dice “DNA”?

Young scientists are sometimes asked to explain their science to the public as if they were talking to a grandparent. For me, that meant boiling down my studies in DNA structure to reach my grandmother, who has a 4th-grade education and Spanish as her first language. The challenge of demystifying my science was daunting.  Read more

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  • accessible
  • communication
  • family
  • perception
  • PhD
  • scicomm
  • science communication
  • translation

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05 Jul 2016 | 15:00 GMT

Have you ever had to compromise your personal life?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCESanFrancisco, Academia, Career paths, Faculty, Multimedia, Perspectives, Relationships, US

We ask speakers at the Naturejobs career expo, San Francisco, if they’ve had to compromise on their personal life to make it in academia.  Read more

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  • academia
  • California
  • career
  • compromise
  • expo
  • family
  • life
  • Naturejobs
  • Naturejobs Career Expo
  • personal
  • San Francisco
  • university
  • US
  • 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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16 Dec 2015 | 12:00 GMT

How to control your career as a female physicist

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Faculty, Perspectives, Physics, Postgraduate, Research

How to control your career as a female physicist

Guest contributor Emma Chapman  … Read more

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  • academia
  • emma chapman
  • family
  • female
  • future goals
  • guest contributor
  • Institute of Physics
  • motherhood
  • physics
  • restriction
  • science
  • taking control
  • women in science

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02 Jul 2014 | 06:30 GMT

PhD applications: Your science or your story?

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Academia, Career paths

PhD applications: Your science or your story?

Contributor Aimee Eckert  … Read more

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  • application
  • cancer research
  • family
  • PhD

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10 Aug 2011 | 18:45 GMT

Careers hold scientists back from having children

Posted by Rachel Bowden | Categories: Postdoc, Research, Tenure, US

Many scientists at top US institutions have had fewer children than they wanted as a result of their careers, according to a new study.  Read more

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  • children
  • faculty
  • family
  • postdoc
  • research
  • Rice University
  • Southern Methodist University
  • tenure
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