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02 Jul 2018 | 13:00 GMT

Lowering the stakes on exams could help close the gender gap in STEM classes

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Competition, Data, Diversity

Lowering the stakes on exams could help close the gender gap in STEM classes

In many undergrad STEM courses, high-stakes exams — such as mid-terms and finals — determine as much as 60-70% of the student’s overall grade. However, this emphasis on tests may be inadvertently putting some students at a disadvantage.  Read more

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  • gender
  • gender gap
  • high-stakes exams
  • plos one
  • STEM
  • teaching
  • training
  • undergraduate classes
  • women in science

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01 Jun 2018 | 09:14 GMT

Why learning to mentor and teach is more important for US faculty members than publishing papers

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Funding, PhD, Publishing, US

Why learning to mentor and teach is more important for US faculty members than publishing papers

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  • career
  • education
  • Graduate school
  • graduate student
  • mentoring
  • PhD
  • publishing
  • skills
  • STEM
  • teaching

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07 Feb 2018 | 13:00 GMT

STEM jobs and gender stereotyping pictured at Davos

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Career paths, Communication, In the news

STEM jobs and gender stereotyping pictured at Davos

Donald Trump’s “America first but not alone” speech at last month’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos may have hogged the headlines, but the meeting of world leaders was also chosen to launch the largest ever global survey of primary schoolchildren’s career aspirations.  Read more

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  • jobs
  • STEM

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22 Dec 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Fake snot, bogus blood, no jokes: Science communication to kids made simple

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Communication, How to answer

Sarah Barnes addressing the Academy of Medical Sciences winter meeting in London

The Centre of the Cell in London’s East End is the world’s first science education centre to be housed in an operating biomedical research facility, an embryo-shaped pod suspended high above the Blizard Institute’s labs, part of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). It is accessed via a bridge and offers children the chance to see scientists at work, watch videos projected onto the pod’s ceiling, and play games aimed at triggering their interest in cell biology and medical research.  Read more

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  • schools
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  • STEM

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08 Dec 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Changes to the U.S. tax code will harm graduate student mobility and career prospects

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Blog, Funding, In the news, Research, US

Changes to the U.S. tax code will harm graduate student mobility and career prospects

A recent editorial in Nature described the harm that newly proposed changes to the United States tax code will have on graduate student finances. If passed, these regulations — ostensibly designed to simplify tax calculations — will eliminate benefits previously given to students. Of particular harm to graduate students and the scientific world would be the elimination of the tax-free status of tuition waivers.  Read more

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  • Aliyah Weinstein
  • employment
  • funding
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  • STEM
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21 Nov 2017 | 08:30 GMT

The struggles of female and underrepresented scientists

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Diversity, PhD, Postgraduate, Publishing, Research, US

The struggles of female and underrepresented scientists

Female and Hispanic faculty representation in the United States increased significantly between 1992 and 2015, but more slowly for black and indigenous faculty members, according to a review study of personnel records from four large US land-grant institutions published in PLoS One . The small numbers of URM lack the data necessary to draw valid  conclusions about retention. However, the study found, URM hiring is increasing, but not at the rate expected for the number of STEM doctoral degrees earned by the populations.  Read more

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  • academia
  • diversity
  • gender bias
  • physics
  • promotion
  • publishing
  • salary
  • STEM
  • tenure
  • underrepresented minorities
  • women in science

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20 Oct 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Growing the next generation of scientists

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Blog, Communication, Competition, Diversity, In the news, People Management, Report, Research, UK, Undergraduate

Growing the next generation of scientists

Naturejobs journalism competition winner Jessica Gorrill  … Read more

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  • local community
  • MSc
  • naturejobs journalism competition
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  • njce17
  • outreach
  • Oxford
  • report
  • scicomm
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08 May 2017 | 09:05 GMT

Gender gap in US science PhD degrees persists

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, CV, Data, Diversity, Faculty, PhD, Uncategorized, US

Gender gap in US science PhD degrees persists

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  • STEM
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15 Dec 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Do you think your career was harder as a woman in science?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, Academia, Career paths, Competition, Diversity, Events, Faculty, Perspectives, Research, Scientists on the move

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  • academia
  • balance
  • career expo
  • diversity
  • gender
  • London
  • men
  • Naturejobs
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14 Nov 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Thinking of a PhD? This is the Australian story

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Business, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Diversity, Mobility, People Management, Perspectives, Relationships, Research, Unemployment

Thinking of a PhD? This is the Australian story

Research is fuelled by the energy of post-graduate students. PhD students contribute 57% of total university research output, according to a 2013 discussion paper from The Group of Eight Universities in Australia. In 2011 Nature published “The PhD factory,” which described the ongoing crisis caused by the oversupply of trained researchers and the inability of academia and industry to soak up the overflow.  Read more

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