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Careers in industry: Is an industrial PhD worth it?

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A PhD with an industrial partner will give an indication of whether or not an industry-based research career is suitable for you.

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If you want to work in industry, it isn’t necessary to do a PhD, says Steve Martin from GSK. If you have a passion for the science, then you could work your way up. However, a PhD can offer some training which is relevant to a specific role. Some researchers opt to take on a PhD in a part-time capacity whilst working in industry, but others, like Helen Pappa from Quintiles, start a PhD that is supported by industry. “I had the best of both worlds,” she said at the 2015 Naturejobs Career Expo in London. She spent half at Imperial College, London, and half in industry. The industrial contacts that she made through her PhD also helped carve out her future career path.

If you are contemplating a career in industry and you have the opportunity to do a PhD with an industry element in it, then “the answer is resoundingly yes,” said Martin. Understand what industrial research is like, and will give you an indication of whether or not it is suitable for you.

Further reading:

Careers in industry: The options.

Careers in industry: How to transition into a new field

Careers in industry: How to make a good elevator pitch

Scientific communities: How to follow the right people on Twitter

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Following the right people on Twitter can help develop supportive and beneficial communities, say speakers at the 2015 London Naturejobs Career Expo.

Jon Tennant, a paleontologist and avid social media user shares his tips on how to make the most of a social media community on Twitter.

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Jon Tennant’s four top tips:

  1. Identify learned societies in your field and find out who they follow. These people will be high-profile scientists in that particular speciality.
  2. Tweet at conferences and you’ll quickly find that people follow you back, especially those who cannot attend.
  3. Curate your feeds into lists. For example, develop a list appropriate to science communication, or on microbiology. You can be as specific as you like
  4. If you don’t like what someone does/says on Twitter, you can unfollow them.

Further reading:

Scientific communities: Build your own

Scientific communities: Membership at learned societies

Scientific communities: From Twitter to paper

Scientific communities: From Twitter to paper

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Networking on Twitter can lead to new collaborations, research projects and, ultimately, published papers.

Jon Tennant spent time networking  with fellow paleontologists on Twitter. Unbeknownst to him, this method of communication would ultimately lead to a new research collaboration and a published paper. Here he explains his story at the 2015 London Naturejobs Career Expo.

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Further reading:

Scientific communities: Build your own

Scientific communities: Membership at learned societies

Career decisions: The role of the unconscious

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Julia Yates explored the role of the unconscious brain in career decision-making during the 2015 London Naturejobs Career Expo.

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Read more about Julia’s talk, Career decisions: Too complex for the rational brain, on the Naturejobs blog.

Phill Jones: From academia to publishing

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Phill Jones, keynote speaker at the 2015 London Naturejobs Career Expo, shares his career transition story.

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Read the report on the keynote speech, Career paths: Out of the Ivory Tower, on the Naturejobs blog.

An Extra Dimension to Protocols

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At Nature Protocols we have long held the, not particularly radical view, that seeing an experiment performed can be a whole lot more informative. We have always encouraged authors to provide videos of their experimental procedures and have used our Featured Videos page and more recently our YouTube channel to make them easier for readers to access. A little over a year ago we realised that by combining the commenting feature present on all our Protocols with YouTube’s player we could kluge together a way to tack videos onto the end of their HTML versions.

But now I’m very happy to say that these less than perfect solutions to showing how experiments are performed have been superseded. We can now display the videos right in the text of Protocols.

If you take a look at the recent Protocol by Lalita Ramakrishnan on “Evaluation of the pathogenesis and treatment of Mycobacterium marinum infection in zebrafish” (doi:10.1038/nprot.2013.068) you will see that the citations in the text to supplementary videos are also links. These links produce a pop-out video player on the page to watch the video. Or alternatively the videos can be viewed at larger size in the figure index.

A screenshot of the new way to view videos in Nature Protocols

A screenshot of the new way to view videos in Nature Protocols

 

This may seem like a small change but we hope that this way of handling videos will make them more useful to readers and we hope will encourage authors to think creatively about the use of videos in their protocols. We will certainly be encouraging authors to take advantage of the possibilities this facilitates.

What other changes to our presentation would you like to see? All supplementary figures and tables shown as pop-outs just like videos? Seamless access to the raw data behind figures? Procedures that you can annotate yourselves? Stopwatches attached to the timing sections? Just tell us and we will see what we can do.

New video functionality in online manuscripts

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Data in research papers that is best presented in the form of videos gets short shrift compared to data that can be easily presented in figures and tables. Printing of representative video frames is a poor surrogate. Embedding videos in PDFs is possible but rare. Even online, where embedding videos in an HTML page is technologically easy, videos are usually provided only as links in the supplementary information for downloading video files.

This week, Nature Methods published two manuscripts from Keller and colleagues and Hufnagel and colleagues describing improved light-sheet microscopy technology that captures amazing time-lapse 3D images of fluorescently labeled cells in developing Drosophila embryos. To help showcase the beautiful videos containing this data we debuted new video functionality that Nature Publishing Group will be rolling out to other journals over time.

We invite you to watch these videos and let us know what you think about the new streaming video player, or the imaging method used to obtain this data. Some of the videos are very large and will take some time to start if you have a slow Internet connection but we hope that even in these cases you find this to be an improvement.

Of course, we still offer the ability to download the original video files supplied by the authors so you can see them in their original resolution, regardless of the speed of your connection.