The Naturejobs journalism competition, London, 2017
We’re launching our annual journalism competition, to cover our flagship career fair in London on October 4th, 2017. Read more
We’re launching our annual journalism competition, to cover our flagship career fair in London on October 4th, 2017. Read more
After a very successful event last year, we are again looking for five budding science writers to help with news coverage of this year’s Better Science through Better Data event. Read more
After a few months working as an associate editor at Nature Photonics, chief editor Oliver Graydon asked Gaia Donati if the role was what she had imagined it to be. She answered that in most aspects it had, with one significant exception: she hadn’t realised that finding referees to assess submitted manuscripts would be such a daunting task. Here, Gaia urges peer reviewers to make things easier by setting up a personal web page outlining their research experience and interests. Read more
Wandering the convention center among 30,000-plus researchers, students and vendors at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego last November, I struggled to wrap my head around a feature I was writing for this week’s Nature, on managing big brain data. Mice, molecular biology and cell sorting reigned supreme in my former life as a bench scientist. Neurons, brain imaging, terabytes — not so much. So when it came time to find an entry into the vast universe of the brain, I latched onto something that seemed small and manageable: the fruit fly. Read more
The ‘Away from home‘ blogging series features Indian postdocs 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 their Indian postdocs headed abroad. You can join in the online conversation using the #postdochat hashtag. Read more
She found she could still do the work she loved at the bench by doing product development research at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Read more