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25 Oct 2017 | 13:00 GMT

How will open data advance scientific discovery?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Data, Mobility, Research, Technology

How will open data advance scientific discovery?

As a global population we are generating more data than ever before. The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2020 over 80 million gigabytes of data will be produced every minute. Each second, the world will generate enough data for a 50-year-long Netflix binge. Scientific investigation is a big part of that: every day huge amounts of data are generated on everything from the behaviour of supernovae to the 3D structure of proteins in the brain. When the world’s largest radio telescope comes online in 2020, it alone will produce 180,000 gigabytes of data a minute.  Read more

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  • deluge
  • edinburgh
  • how much data is being made?
  • IDC
  • information
  • neuroscience
  • open data
  • PhD
  • sarah lempriere
  • scidata17
  • Scientific Data Writing competition
  • using data
  • writing competition

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25 Sep 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Different “Me”s open up a new world on a personal and scientific level

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

Different “Me”s open up a new world on a personal and scientific level

A light grey room is filled with 23 grey desks, scattered in pens and books. In one corner sits a refrigerator packed with snacks. Next to it is a rice cooker. The walls are covered in pictures of fun lab memories. Amidst the clutter, some students joke and laugh; chat with a professor about their experimental procedures; analyze data on their laptops and unconsciously wrinkle their brows.  Read more

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  • China
  • culture
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  • different me
  • haruka yuminaga
  • internationalism
  • japan
  • japanese science
  • neuroscience
  • returning
  • science
  • science from different cultures
  • science in different cities
  • science internationally
  • scientist
  • self awareness
  • US
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  • USA

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21 Jul 2017 | 13:00 GMT

From Doctorate to Data Science: A very short guide

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Data, Industry, Mobility, PhD, Postgraduate, Research, Social media, Technology

From Doctorate to Data Science: A very short guide

Are you one of the many PhDs considering a career in data science? I completed a PhD in neuroscience at Stanford three years ago; now I’m a data scientist at Uber. During my time in industry, I’ve found that the skills we develop in graduate school, such as analytical thinking, statistics, communication skills, and – oh yes – tenacity in the face of adversity, make us a great fit for the role.  Read more

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  • Academia to Industry
  • advice
  • collaboration
  • Data
  • data analysis
  • data heavy
  • data research
  • data science
  • data scientist
  • differences between academia industry
  • experimentation
  • grace tang
  • information
  • natural science to data research
  • neuroscience
  • PhD
  • Stanford
  • uber

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23 Jun 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Q&A: Progress for Congress

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, In the news, Mobility, People Management, Research, Scientists on the move, Social media, US

Q&A: Progress for Congress

Thomas Prigg is a brain cell circuitry researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. Now he’s using his science skills to fuel his campaign for Congress in 2018. He talks to Nikki Forrester.  Read more

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  • america
  • congress
  • democrats
  • economic
  • neuroscience
  • nicole forrester
  • nikki forrester
  • politics
  • republicans
  • research
  • scientific issues
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16 Jun 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Reflections on the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science program

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Career paths, Diversity, Europe, Events

Reflections on the L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science program

Springtime in Paris seems a fitting backdrop for any awards ceremony but particularly so in the case of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science program. I recently had the honour of attending the 2017 International Awards along with 14 other early career researchers from around the globe, as part of the L’Oréal-UNESCO International Rising Talents Fellowship.  Read more

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  • biology
  • chemistry
  • diversity
  • engineering
  • fwis
  • initiative
  • L'Oreal
  • muireann irish
  • neuroscience
  • paris
  • physics
  • research concil
  • rising talents
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26 Jan 2017 | 11:00 GMT

New neuroscience tools for team science in ‘big data’ era

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Communication, Data, Research, Technology

Wandering the convention center among 30,000-plus researchers, students and vendors at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego last November, I struggled to wrap my head around a feature I was writing for this week’s Nature, on managing big brain data. Mice, molecular biology and cell sorting reigned supreme in my former life as a bench scientist. Neurons, brain imaging, terabytes — not so much. So when it came time to find an entry into the vast universe of the brain, I latched onto something that seemed small and manageable: the fruit fly.  Read more

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  • big brain data
  • big data
  • biology
  • brain imaging
  • brain science
  • esther landhuis
  • imaging
  • jeff perkel
  • Nature
  • neurodata
  • neuroscience
  • reporting
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07 Dec 2016 | 17:00 GMT

Finding job satisfaction as a drug safety manager

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Industry, Mobility, Research, Scientists on the move

Finding job satisfaction as a drug safety manager

Steffen Schulz was completing his PhD in medical neuroscience when he realised he needed more job security than academia could offer. Now, he works as a drug safety manager in his native Berlin.  Read more

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  • Academia to Industry
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  • biology
  • drug
  • Germany
  • industry
  • interview
  • manager
  • medical
  • mobility
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  • neuroscience
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04 Nov 2016 | 13:00 GMT

The “black box” effect in science communication

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Communication, Events, Research

The “black box” effect in science communication

In July 2016 scientists found out how to map the brain into dozens of new areas using neuroimaging. We also discovered that thousands of such brain scanning studies may be flawed. To someone lacking insight into neuroscience, these two equally important studies can seem conflicting. Although “science communication” happens everywhere, science can still feel like a black box to the public, mysteriously churning out breakthroughs which are packaged and relayed by a barrage of tweets and headlines.  Read more

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  • animal research
  • black box
  • communication
  • Data
  • journalism
  • lev tankelevitch
  • Naturejobs
  • naturejobs journalism competition winner
  • neuroscience
  • NJCE
  • Oxford
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24 Aug 2016 | 17:00 GMT

Finding job satisfaction as a science liaison

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Ask the expert, Business, Career paths, Careers articles, Communication, Industry, Mobility

Finding job satisfaction as a science liaison

After completing a PhD and postdoc in experimental neuroscience labs, Sabine Blankenship had no desire to run her own lab. Here she describes how her passion to study abroad led her from experiments that had become frustrating to outreach she finds invigorating. She now works in the German Consulate General in San Francisco, where she helps set up international research collaborations and keep the German government abreast of US advances, particularly in renewable energy and regenerative medicine.  Read more

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  • careers
  • german
  • Germany
  • Graduate school
  • interview
  • Nature
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  • network
  • networking
  • neuroscience
  • PhD
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03 Feb 2012 | 17:15 GMT

AstraZeneca to cut 2,200 R&D jobs

Posted by Rachel Bowden | Categories: Academia, Business, Collaboration, Europe, Funding, Industry, Research, Unemployment, US

As part of a major restructuring programme, pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced yesterday it would be cutting 2,200 jobs from its research and development (R&D) workforce.  Read more

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  • AstraZeneca
  • Boston
  • Cambridge
  • Canada
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  • industry
  • job cuts
  • job losses
  • neuroscience
  • R&D
  • Sweden

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