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17 Apr 2018 | 08:31 GMT

Reshaping the research landscape

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Funding, Postdoc, Report, Research, US

Reshaping the research landscape

The proposal from the advisory body in Washington DC calls for more career counselling at the graduate and postdoctoral levels, better data on career outcomes at those levels, three-year caps on postdocs under principal investigators and new non-tenure track academic research positions, among other changes. To implement all the proposals would require a US$2 billion increase to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s budget, as well as subsequent budget raises to prevent future funding bottlenecks.  Read more

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  • academia
  • biomedical research
  • career outcome
  • career paths
  • grant
  • NIH
  • postdoc
  • tenure track
  • United States

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10 Jan 2018 | 13:00 GMT

Cristina Lo Celso: Career-changing encounters

Posted by David Payne | Categories: In the news, Postdoc, Postgraduate

Cristina Lo Celso: Career-changing encounters

Why did you choose a career in academic research rather than medicine?   … Read more

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  • career paths
  • leukaemia
  • postgraduate
  • work-life balance

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01 Nov 2017 | 13:00 GMT

A long and winding road into medical communications

Posted by Rebecca Wild | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Postdoc

A long and winding road into medical communications

  … Read more

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  • academic
  • career
  • career path
  • career paths
  • erica brockmeier
  • medical communications
  • PhD
  • scientist

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17 May 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Meditation on a Caltrain: Understanding where to travel to next

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Business, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, Industry, Mobility, Perspectives, Scientists on the move, US

Meditation on a Caltrain: Understanding where to travel to next

This piece was one of two winners of the Science Innovation Union writing competition, Oxford.  Read more

Tags:

  • author
  • business
  • California
  • caltrain
  • career paths
  • george busby
  • meditation
  • move
  • options
  • papers
  • publishing
  • research
  • science
  • scientific research
  • silicon valley
  • start up company
  • start-up

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03 Oct 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Uncertain Airspace: Changing career paths is disorienting and exhilarating

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Blog, Career paths, Communication, Mobility, People Management, Perspectives, PhD, Publishing, Research, Social media

Uncertain Airspace: Changing career paths is disorienting and exhilarating

Sometimes I ask people, “if you weren’t studying biology, what would you do?”  … Read more

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  • blogging
  • California
  • career
  • career paths
  • communication
  • communications
  • goose
  • graduate
  • guest contributor
  • immunology
  • jonathan wosen
  • journalism
  • news
  • newspaper
  • PhD
  • podcasting
  • report
  • science
  • scientific
  • Stanford
  • STEM
  • study
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05 Sep 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Why building a start-up is probably your most sensible career path

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Ask the expert, Blog, Business, Career paths, Competition, Data, Industry, Mobility, Research, Scientists on the move, Technology

Why building a start-up is probably your most sensible career path

In stark contrast to the proliferation of web based start-ups led by young founders, science based start-ups have typically remained the domain of seasoned professors, spinning out breakthrough technology built on years of research. This is changing rapidly, and it’s now more viable than ever to start a science based company straight out of a PhD. In fact, it might just be one of the most sensible career paths that you can take.  Read more

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  • business
  • career paths
  • entrepreneur
  • entrepreneurship
  • guest contributor
  • innovation
  • innovations
  • knowledge transfer
  • lean start up
  • mark hammond
  • MBA
  • Open Knowledge
  • PhD
  • risk
  • science based start ups
  • science skills
  • start-up
  • startup
  • technical skill

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16 Aug 2016 | 15:00 GMT

What almost derailed you?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCESanFrancisco, Academia, Faculty, Multimedia, Research, Tenure, US

We ask academics at the Naturejobs career expo, San Francisco, to name one moment that almost derailed their career.  Read more

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  • academia
  • Ask the expert
  • California
  • career
  • career expo
  • career paths
  • careers
  • careers advice
  • derailed
  • discussion
  • faculty
  • Naturejobs
  • NJCE
  • panel
  • problems
  • research
  • San Francisco
  • science
  • USA
  • video

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27 Jul 2016 | 12:00 GMT

The Naturejobs career expo journalism competition, London, 2016!

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, Academia, Blog, Careers articles, Competition, CV, Europe, Events, Faculty, Funding, How to answer, In the news, Industry, Mobility, Multimedia, news, Perspectives, PhD, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Publishing, Report, Research, Social media

The Naturejobs career expo journalism competition, London, 2016!

   … Read more

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  • academia
  • author
  • career
  • career paths
  • communication
  • competition
  • england
  • expo
  • funding
  • industry
  • journalism
  • journalist
  • leader
  • leadership
  • London
  • mobility
  • Nature
  • Naturejobs
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  • networking
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  • published
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  • september
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30 May 2016 | 10:00 GMT

A week in the life of a tenured professor

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #ScientistOnTheMove, Academia, Ask the expert, Careers articles, Faculty, Mobility, Perspectives, Research, Scientists on the move, Tenure

Chenggang Yan

Guest contributor Chenggang Yan  … Read more

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  • academia
  • academia in asia
  • academic
  • administration
  • Asia
  • Ask the expert
  • career paths
  • careers advice
  • Chenggang Yan
  • China
  • day-to-day
  • Dianzi University
  • events
  • faculty
  • guest contributor
  • Hangzhou
  • jobs
  • Naturejobs
  • networking
  • professor
  • reputation
  • research
  • respect
  • responsibilities
  • science
  • scientist on the move
  • Shandong University
  • tenure
  • travel
  • Tsinghua University

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27 May 2016 | 12:00 GMT

A positive step for postdocs?

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Communication, Postdoc, Research, US

A positive step for postdocs?

The potential downside? It could mean fewer postdoc positions – but even that may be a positive. The academic pipeline worldwide, especially in the biomedical sciences, has a postdoc glut.  Read more

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  • academia
  • activism
  • career paths
  • careers
  • communication
  • faculty
  • funding
  • jobs
  • Nature careers
  • Naturejobs
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  • research
  • science
  • US

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