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11 Aug 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Human Pipettes: Scientific training and education in biomedical research

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Career paths, CV, Internship, Mobility, People Management, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research

Are junior scientists little more than human pipettes?

A recent cancer research symposium displayed a familiar asymmetry. 90% of the attendees were PhD students or postdocs sitting obsequiously in the rear and asking 10% of the questions. 10% of the attendees were front-sitting faculty providing 90% of the inquiries.  Read more

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  • cancer research
  • David Rubenson
  • grant
  • human pipette
  • junior scientist
  • management
  • metrics
  • National Institutes of Health
  • papers
  • Paul Salvaterra
  • pressue
  • quality
  • research
  • science
  • symposia
  • training

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17 Jul 2017 | 13:00 GMT

The three-year PhD program: good for students? Or too good to be true?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, In the news, Mobility, PhD, Research, Scientists on the move

It will be harder to get PhD extensions under the new model.

PhD students are the backbone of the research industry, often responsible for compiling precious datasets for their lab and learning the cutting-edge techniques required for analysis. But completing a PhD is hard, and getting harder as scientific standards creep steadily upwards. It takes over a year longer for current students to publish their first scientific paper than those 30 years ago because of the increasing data requirements of top journals. Across Europe and Australia, this is one reason why students are taking an average of four to six years (or longer) to complete their PhDs, despite candidature contracts usually being a maximum of four years, and government scholarships lasting at most three and a half years.  Read more

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  • adam cardilini
  • alice risely
  • Better PhD
  • extensions
  • job market
  • mental health
  • modern PhD
  • new phd
  • papers
  • peer review
  • PhD
  • phd extension
  • phd supervisor
  • phd support
  • publishing
  • research
  • scientific standards
  • short contracts
  • supervisors
  • survey
  • three year phd

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17 May 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Meditation on a Caltrain: Understanding where to travel to next

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Business, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Industry, Mobility, Perspectives, Scientists on the move, US

Meditation on a Caltrain: Understanding where to travel to next

This piece was one of two winners of the Science Innovation Union writing competition, Oxford.  Read more

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  • author
  • business
  • California
  • caltrain
  • career paths
  • george busby
  • meditation
  • move
  • options
  • papers
  • publishing
  • research
  • science
  • scientific research
  • silicon valley
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20 Feb 2017 | 13:00 GMT

The start and the middle: beginning your PhD

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Chemistry, Mobility, PhD, Research, UK

The start and the middle: beginning your PhD

Whether you’re starting a PhD fresh out of undergrad or after many years of employment, the decision to begin a doctorate is a significant career move. When I started, 18 months ago, I figured I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into: I’d previously worked in industry, completed a Master’s degree, and worked as a research assistant in another lab.  Read more

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  • matthew nolan
  • middle
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  • Oxford
  • papers
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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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  • eli lazarus
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  • ghost research
  • grants
  • lobster
  • national fisherman
  • papers
  • rejection
  • research
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27 Jan 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Postdocs and early-career researchers: be more than a name on a website

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Academia, Postdoc, Research

Postdocs and early-career researchers: be more than a name on a website

After a few months working as an associate editor at Nature Photonics, chief editor Oliver Graydon asked Gaia Donati if the role was what she had imagined it to be. She answered that in most aspects it had, with one significant exception: she hadn’t realised that finding referees to assess submitted manuscripts would be such a daunting task. Here, Gaia urges peer reviewers to make things easier by setting up a personal web page outlining their research experience and interests.  Read more

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  • Nature
  • nature photonics
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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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  • away from home
  • blog
  • devendra dusane
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  • indigenus
  • microbiology
  • mobility
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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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  • academic papers
  • analysis
  • big data
  • blog
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  • jeff perkel
  • language
  • omnity
  • paper
  • papers
  • patent
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31 Oct 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Why should we work so hard to make our work reproducible?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Data, In the news, Industry, Publishing, Report, Research

Why should we work so hard to make our work reproducible?

The call for reproducibility has never been stronger in the history of science. Since two major pharmaceutical companies, Amgen and Bayer, reported in 2011/12 that their scientists were unable to replicate 80-90% of the findings in landmark papers, scientific news outlets have caught up on the issue. Their reports have catalyzed conversations among stakeholders (policy makers, funding agencies and scientists) to improve reproducibility in science.  Read more

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  • Andy Tay
  • Data
  • news
  • paper
  • papers
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  • pharmaceutical
  • reproducibility
  • research
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21 Oct 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Why don’t scientists always share their data?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Admin, Blog, Collaboration, Communication, Competition, Data, Events, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Publishing, Report, Research, Technology

Why don’t scientists always share their data?

Publishing Better Science through Better Data writing competition winner Emma Vander Ende.  Read more

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  • Data
  • data publishing
  • discoveries
  • emma vander ende
  • experiments
  • funding
  • papers
  • published
  • publishing
  • reproducibility
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