Women tend to underperform in introductory STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) courses, but tweaking how courses are graded could help change that.
By Diana Crow
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.
An emphasis on high-stakes exams at undergraduate level may be a contributor to the gender gap
Rozanna Meijboom is one of three early career scientists to receive a new UK Medical Research Council (MRC) award to partner labs undertaking similar research at the US National Institutes of Health.
She talks about her forthcoming trip to the US, where she will spend time with the team led by neurologist and neuroradiologist Daniel Reich.
Applications for the 2018/19 neurodegeneration awards are are now open. The closing date is 5 April 2018.
UPDATE: This competition is now closed. The winning entries will be published in the 26th April issue of Nature.
Last year, we launched the first Naturejobs #ScientistAtWork photo competition. It was a huge success — we received hundreds of entries from all over the world, and spoke to the five winners here.
We’re running the same competition again this year. We’re looking forward to seeing your entries. Winners will be announced and profiled alongside their images in the April 26th issue of Nature magazine, and will receive a year’s personal print and online subscription to Nature.
The competition will run from the 1st of March until midnight GMT on March 31st. Entrants must not be professional photographers.
All you need to do to enter is either:
Email us your photo with a quick description and your contact details, or
Post your image on Twitter with the #ScientistAtWork tag, or
Post your image on Instagram with the #ScientistAtWork tag
You must be willing to grant us the rights to publish your image for the competition. You also must be contactable — we’ll be getting in touch to interview you about your photo if you are one of the five winners. We may also contact runners-up, as we did in 2017, to find out more about the story behind the image.
The winning entries will be decided by a panel of Nature journalists and art staff. We’re looking for images that capture moments in a scientific day — either in or out of the lab — in an original way. Heavily photoshopped images will not be considered (though colour correction and touching-up is fine). Finally, your photo must be high enough quality for print publishing in Nature (at least 220 mm at 300 dpi) to be considered.
That’s it! (More-or-less: please check out the terms and conditions below.) Best of luck to all of you and we look forward to flicking through your photos. Please feel free to send any questions to photocompetition@nature.com.
Science needs to get over its problem with secrecy and change the climate where scientific knowledge is treated like military intelligence, argues Katie Ember.
This picture of Kronebreen,the Crown Glacier in Norwegian, was an entrant in Naturejobs’ inaugural Scientist At Work photo competition. Joshua Chu-Tan investigates the science behind the image.
Open data is the new normal, says Anastasia Greenberg.
The 2017 Better Science through Better Data event in London, UK, hosted by Springer Nature and Wellcome, was a full day exposé of emerging open data practices, tools, strategies, and policies. Among the potential benefits of open data are replicability, reproducibility, and reusability. While open data is a relatively new hype, some evidence suggests that open data does indeed increase reproducibility.
