Every fortnight we’ll be collating all the careers related content across Nature, just in time for some weekend reading.

Career paths have twists and turns. They’re never straight forward, however much time you spend planning them. One single email changed the careers of Anthony Barnosky and his wife, Elizabeth Hadly. They had co-authored a paper in Nature about climate change (Barnosky, A. D. et al. Nature 486, 52–58 (2012)), and the media attention it created caught the eye of Jerry Brown, the governor in California. He wanted them to turn their paper into a consensus statement – a document that could be used in political circles, and could be understood by political leaders, policy makers and the public. Read more from Virginia Gewin on this story of politics and science.

The Scripps Research Institute president, Michael Marletta, has resigned from his post after the faculty rebelled against him. The reason for the rebellion is that Marletta had started making plans to join the research institute with the Los Angeles based University of Southern California. Read more about the Scripps president’s resignation on the Nature News blog. Continue reading →