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13 Feb 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Ghost research: taking stock of work that disappears

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Admin, Blog, CV, Faculty, Funding, Perspectives, Research

Ghost research: taking stock of work that disappears

Guest contributor Eli Lazarus  … Read more

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  • application
  • CV of failures
  • drafts
  • eli lazarus
  • fishing
  • funding
  • ghost research
  • grants
  • lobster
  • national fisherman
  • papers
  • rejection
  • research
  • southampton
  • time management
  • traps
  • wasted research

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09 Feb 2017 | 13:00 GMT

How do I get money for my academic idea?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, Ask the expert, Business, Competition, Funding, People Management, Research

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  • 2016
  • academia
  • career expo
  • financial
  • funding
  • funds
  • grants
  • London
  • money
  • Naturejobs
  • pay
  • proposal
  • research
  • support

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02 Feb 2017 | 13:00 GMT

How should I apply for a fellowship?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, Ask the expert, Funding

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  • 2016
  • anuj bhatt
  • career expo
  • esrc
  • fellowship
  • funding
  • grants
  • London
  • money
  • Naturejobs
  • UK

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11 Nov 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Your best work might be just around the corner

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Career paths, In the news, Publishing, Research

Ever wonder when you’ll publish that big paper that’ll win you the Nobel Prize (or at least a new research grant)? Turns out, it could be your next.  Read more

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  • Boston
  • career
  • funding
  • grant
  • grants
  • nature news
  • news
  • Nobel
  • Prize
  • publishing
  • research
  • scientific

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06 Jul 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Counting all the ways connections matter

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Ask the expert, Communication, CV, Diversity, Faculty, In the news, Mobility, Relationships, Research, Tenure

Counting all the ways connections matter

Guest contributor Viviane Callier  … Read more

Tags:

  • co authors
  • coauthors
  • connection
  • connections
  • freelance writing
  • funding
  • grant
  • grants
  • guest contributor
  • networking
  • news
  • paper
  • papers
  • productivity
  • publishing
  • R01
  • reach
  • STEM
  • tenure
  • Viviane Callier
  • why network
  • women in science

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20 May 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Failing to fail gracefully

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Blog, Career paths, Chemistry, Communication, CV, Faculty, Funding, Perspectives, Research, Tenure

Failing to fail gracefully

Guest contributor John Tregoning  … Read more

Tags:

  • academia
  • career paths
  • communication
  • coping with
  • CV
  • dark souls
  • dealing with
  • fail
  • Failure
  • funding
  • grant rejection
  • grants
  • guest contributor
  • health in academia
  • John Tregoning
  • mental health
  • mental health awareness week
  • rejection
  • research
  • science
  • wellbeing

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08 Dec 2014 | 06:00 GMT

How to cope when things go wrong in academia

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: #NJCE14

Sometimes, things go wrong in academia. The experiment isn’t working; you can’t find your results; the money is running out and you haven’t got any more. What can you do about it?  Read more

Tags:

  • 2014
  • academia
  • funding
  • grants
  • London
  • Naturejobs Career Expo
  • support

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02 Feb 2012 | 16:50 GMT

US scientists have their say on plans for biomedical workforce

Posted by Rachel Bowden | Categories: Academia, Funding, PhD, Postdoc, Tenure, US

Posted on behalf of Gene Russo, Nature Careers editor US biomedical scientists recently had a chance to set their field’s priorities. And what was the most pressing problem they reported? The very real possibility that there are too damn many biomedical scientists. The balance between the supply of biomedical researchers and the demand in terms of available career opportunities should be the biggest priority for reforming the US biomedical workforce, according to a survey response issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Other big priorities that scientists highlighted were PhD characteristics (i.e. PhD curriculum, length of the PhD training  … Read more

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  • biomedical
  • funding
  • grants
  • National Institutes of Health
  • NIH
  • PhD
  • postdoc
  • survey
  • tenure
  • United States
  • US
  • working group

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31 Jan 2011 | 12:44 GMT

How to be a successful scientist

Posted by Rachel Bowden | Categories: Academia, Collaboration, People Management, UK

How to be a successful scientist

At a recent scientific careers event in London, University of Kent geneticist Darren Griffin – also a career development fellow for the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) – presented his ten commandments for being a successful scientist in academia. We’ve reproduced them below for your reading pleasure along with further advice that Griffin gave at the event. Have a read and tell us what you think – do you agree with the list? Do any ring particularly true for you? Are there any others you would add? Share your views in the comment box.  Read more

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  • academia
  • BBSRC
  • collaboration
  • Darren Griffin
  • grants
  • papers
  • research
  • team
  • University of Kent

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