{"id":4129,"date":"2014-08-15T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2014-08-15T12:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T11:50:48","slug":"careers-in-nature-15-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2014\/08\/15\/careers-in-nature-15-august-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers in Nature – 15 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nature\"<\/a>Every fortnight we’ll be collating all the careers related content across\u00a0Nature<\/em>, just in time for some weekend reading.<\/p>\n

Nature Biotechnology<\/em><\/a> has published a data table<\/a> that ranks researchers based on paper output in Science-Business exchange<\/a>\u00a0(SciBX)<\/em>\u00a0in 2013 and patent output at their \u00a0current institution. The article also shows where the patenting and paper energies are directed. almost 30% of the papers submitted to SciBX<\/em> were related to cancer, closely followed by research tools.<\/p>\n

Striving for openness in academia is a good thing – sharing work with peers to help with research can only be beneficial. But, for one student, this has backfired. In 2011,\u00a0Diego G\u00f3mez Hoyos posted a 2006 thesis about amphibian taxonomy on the social network Scribd<\/a>. In 2013, he was informed that the author of the paper was suing him for violating copyright laws, and G\u00f3mez\u00a0may end up in jail for 4-8 years as a result<\/a>\u00a0even though he removed the thesis as soon as he was informed, reports Michelle Catanzaro on the Nature<\/em> News blog<\/a>. The reason this is possible is because the copyright laws in Colombia were reformed in 2006, making\u00a0G\u00f3mez’s act a criminal offence.<\/p>\n

The use of social media amongst scientists has increased dramatically over the last few years, specifically with the rise of academic-only networks like ResearchGate and Academia.edu.\u00a0In the article, Richard Van Noorden explores what the relationships are between scientists, social media and the way that it is changing collaboration<\/a>. The article also shows results from the Nature survey : that Twitter is mainly used for following discussions; Facebook isn’t used much professionally; LinkedIn is only used in case people wish to contact you; the same goes for ResearchGate, although more people use it for discovering peers too; same for Academia.edu; and Mendeley is mostly for discovering recommended papers. There is a great interactive infographic\u00a0that delves into the details a little more.<\/p>\n

Materials Girl blogs regularly on The Sceptical Chemist, and in her latest blog post<\/a> she highlights some of the things she has learned during her time as a teaching assistant, or TA.<\/p>\n

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