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10 Apr 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Exploring science communication

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Careers articles, Communication, Competition, Europe, In the news, Research

Exploring science communication

There’s a few reasons why scientists may be discouraged from science communication. Here, I’m hoping to break down some of those barriers, and introduce channels and platforms where scientists can practise. First, here are some of the reasons stopping more scientists from practising science communication, as well as my rebuttals.  Read more

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  • Andy Tay
  • barriers
  • benefit
  • career expo
  • exhibitions
  • images
  • museum
  • outreach
  • paris
  • public
  • scicomm
  • science communication
  • scientists
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24 Jan 2017 | 08:00 GMT

Away from home: The two-body problem

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Diversity, Mobility, People Management, Relationships, Research, Scientists on the move

Away from home: The two-body problem

The ‘Away from home‘ blogging series features Indian scientists 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 other scientists headed abroad. You can join in the online conversation using the #postdochat hashtag.  Read more

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  • academic
  • couple
  • couples
  • India
  • indian
  • indigenus
  • lab mobility
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  • naresh bal
  • nature india
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18 Jan 2017 | 13:00 GMT

From start-ups to big pharma – how to get into industry

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Business, Career paths, CV, Industry, Mobility, PhD, Research, Scientists on the move, UK

From start-ups to big pharma – how to get into industry

Naturejobs journalism competition winner Rachel Harris reports.  Read more

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  • alternative careers
  • career expo
  • career move
  • entrepreneurship
  • get out of the lab
  • industry
  • leave academia
  • London
  • mobility
  • move
  • Naturejobs blog
  • NJCE
  • other careers
  • out of academia
  • Rachel Harris
  • research
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09 Nov 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Loved minds think alike?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Careers articles, Communication, Europe, Industry, Mobility, Perspectives, Relationships, Scientists on the move

Loved minds think alike?

It’s been seven years, two months, 19 days, five hours and 37 minutes since I left the bench. I keep counting the hours and desperately try to hang on to my memories. Some days it feels like yesterday that I left PCR reactions, agarose gels, and my beloved mouse embryos behind.  Read more

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  • christina morgenstern
  • dating
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21 Oct 2016 | 17:30 GMT

The Alan Turing law

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Diversity, Europe, In the news, Relationships

The Alan Turing law

The collection of features and opinion articles, along with an accompanying podcast, acknowledged that in his tragically short life, Turing — whilst working on a machine that would crack Nazi codes and become the modern day computer — shaped many of the hottest fields in science today, including artificial intelligence, biological pattern formation, and computation in physics.  Read more

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  • breaking
  • civil partnerships
  • code
  • computer
  • computer science
  • diversity
  • england
  • equal
  • equality
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29 Aug 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Transferable skills: What are scientists good at (other than science)?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCEBoston, #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Industry, Internship, Mobility

Transferable skills: What are scientists good at (other than science)?

In today’s competitive world, it’s become increasingly common for scientists to question where their skills and knowledge will fit outside the lab. Academic research is a harsh place, littered with the victims of funding decisions and research projects that didn’t quite go to plan. The idea, even amongst scientists, that we are highly specialised professionals with no role outside the lab has become a persistent limitation in this search. So, what is the need for a scientist in any other capacity?  Read more

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24 Aug 2016 | 13:00 GMT

More US graduate students win right to unionize

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, In the news, news, Postdoc, Research, Union, US

More US graduate students win right to unionize

Graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants at private universities won the right on Tuesday to join unions, overturning an opposing decision by the NLRB in 2004.  Read more

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  • decision
  • early career
  • early-career researcher
  • GWC
  • GWC-UAW
  • national labor relations board
  • NLRB
  • petition
  • postdoc
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  • scientists
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23 Aug 2016 | 15:00 GMT

What jobs are in demand?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCESanFrancisco, #ScientistOnTheMove, Ask the expert, Career paths, Careers articles, Events, Industry, Mobility, Multimedia, Perspectives, Research, Scientists on the move, Technology, US

We ask speakers at the Naturejobs career expo, San Francisco, to talk over some of the jobs that are most in demand in industry, in California.  Read more

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  • career expo
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  • high demand jobs
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28 Jun 2016 | 18:00 GMT

Return to Nerd Heaven: Lindau

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Europe, news, Research, Technology

Return to Nerd Heaven: Lindau

In 2012, I flew across the pond from the deserts of Arizona to the shores of Lake Constance on the German/Austrian/Swiss border. I wasn’t on holiday per se, but I might as well have been. When I arrived in the tiny hamlet of Lindau, Germany, I was met with two very sweet offerings: spaghetti ice cream and hundreds of nerds swarming the island town. I couldn’t have been happier.  Read more

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  • austria
  • CERN
  • conference
  • general relativity
  • Germany
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