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14 Mar 2018 | 13:00 BST

Where are the female first and last authors?

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Communication, CV, Data, Diversity, Faculty, Funding, Publishing, Research, Tenure, US

Where are the female first and last authors?

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle gathered names of first and last authors from papers published from 2005-2017 in 15 major science and neuroscience journals, including Nature, Science, PNAS, Nature Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Review. Nearly 10% of the names were excluded because they were relatively gender neutral, but the rest told a clear story: In these journals, authorship is a male-dominated enterprise.  Read more

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  • gender
  • gender bias
  • grant
  • high-impact journal
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  • manuscript
  • manuscript editor
  • peer review
  • publication
  • publishing
  • tenure
  • women in science

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17 Jul 2017 | 13:00 BST

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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28 Dec 2016 | 11:18 BST

Ten top science career tips for 2017

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Careers articles, Featured, Scientists on the move

Ten top science career tips for 2017

Scientific irreproducibility — the inability to repeat others’ experiments and reach the same conclusion — is a growing concern.  Read more

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  • career mobility
  • mental health
  • peer review
  • presentation skills
  • stress

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19 Aug 2016 | 12:00 BST

How not to respond to reviewers: Eight simple tips

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Collaboration, CV, Publishing, Report, Research

Flickr/AJ Cann, CC BY-SA

This piece was republished from Sophie Lewis’ blog.  Read more

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  • guest blog
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  • peer review
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28 Jun 2016 | 12:00 BST

A day in the life of a Scientific Reports publishing assistant

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Admin, Ask the expert, Blog, Career paths, Communication, Mobility, Open access, Perspectives, Publishing, Research

A day in the life of a Scientific Reports publishing assistant

Every day in this job, I learn something new.  As a publishing assistant, I guide manuscripts through the peer review process at Scientific Reports.  As such I handle manuscripts at multiple stages of the process. I like to think of it as following a manuscript’s journey from the lab up out into the world. Each day brings new challenges. Organisational skills are a must.  Read more

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  • assistand
  • editing
  • editorial
  • guest contributor
  • how to work as a publishing assistant
  • jessica lawler
  • manuscript
  • Naturejobs
  • online
  • open access
  • paper
  • peer review
  • public engagement
  • publishing
  • reports
  • research
  • scicom
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24 Jul 2014 | 08:31 BST

Q&A with Gerjon Ikink: Using policy to change science

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Career paths

Q&A with Gerjon Ikink: Using policy to change science

Gerjon Ikink is currently in his fifth and final year of a PhD at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, but is thinking about leaving research. He always wanted to be a scientist so that he could contribute to society by exploring the unknown in search of the truth, in this case research into the genetic pathways involved in breast cancer.  Read more

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  • funding
  • infrastructure
  • peer review
  • research
  • science policy

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19 Mar 2014 | 09:00 BST

Windback Wednesday Round-up: Publishing

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Communication

Windback Wednesday Round-up: Publishing

Even though this was a few years ago, the advice given in Writing a paper: habits of successful authors still stands true today, and this was our starting point for this month. Bernd Pulverer, head of scientific publications at the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO), shared some insights with attendees at the NaturejobsCareer Expo in Heidelberg, Germany in May 2011.  Read more

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  • digital publishing
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  • Scientific publishing

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13 Jul 2012 | 10:21 BST

Peer-review tips for young researchers

Posted by Rachel Bowden | Categories: Research

During the Euroscience Open Forum 2012 (ESOF 2012) which opened in Dublin yesterday, Alaa Ibrahim, an astrophysicist from the American University in Cairo, Egypt, gave his advice to young researchers starting their research career on how to handle the peer reviewing process. Here is a summary of his tips:  … Read more

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