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Final chance to enter our careers columnist competition

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With only a few days left to enter our careers columnist competition, and for the chance to be published in Nature, you should be almost ready to submit your entry, if you haven’t already. Here’s our handy check-list of last-minute advice:

  • Don’t be afraid to inject some personality into it. But avoid a long-winded personal rant at all costs!
  • Take a look at what’s already been covered here and here, to make sure your entry is original.
  •  Consider why this is relevant now – is there a topical hook?
  • Ask others for advice. Editing your own work is hard – even professional editors get other editors to look at their work – so do the same;  give your entry to friends and colleagues who you can trust for honest advice. If there are parts they all find boring, cut them out (those sections, not your friends!).

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Careers columnist competition

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Nature’s Careers section is pleased to announce our latest international competition to select five young scientist columnists for 2013. All currently enrolled science graduate students and working postdocs are eligible.

Over the course of the year, each columnist will write at least one column to be published in Nature, and will be encouraged to pitch more. Columnists will also be asked to write two or more Blog entries for the Naturejobs blog, charting their ups and downs through the year and describing how their experiences have shaped their future career choices.

We ask that applicants provide three things: Continue reading →

Nature welcomes six new Careers columnists

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After considering almost 300 applications Nature’s Careers editors have chosen six young scientists as winners of the 2011 Careers columnist competition.

The successful entries cover a diverse range of topics, including how to cope with setbacks in the first year of your PhD, the struggles of postdocs in Canada and selling yourself to prospective employers. The six scientists — three PhD students and three postdocs — will each write at least two columns for the Careers section of Nature over the next year. Their columns will also be published on naturejobs.com.

The six winners are:

  • Adam James, a PhD student in synthetic chemistry at the University of Tasmania in Australia

  • Lucie Low, a postdoc in neuroscience at McGill University in Canada

  • Mariano A. Loza-Coll, a postdoc in genetics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in the United States

  • Lydia Soraya Murray, a PhD student in molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom

  • Andrew Peterman, a PhD student in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University in the United States

  • Gaston Small, a postdoc in ecology at the University of Minnesota in the United States

You can read more about the new columnists and their writing ambitions in the 2nd June issue of Nature.

Thanks to everyone who applied — for those of you who were unsuccessful this time, we hope you keep writing.