{"id":8535,"date":"2015-11-27T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2015-11-27T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:10:10","slug":"careers-in-science-celebrate-the-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/11\/27\/careers-in-science-celebrate-the-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers in science: Celebrate the failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The history and development of science is littered with failures, so early-career researchers should embrace, rather than be afraid of them.<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8535-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/multimedia\/podcast\/naturejobs\/naturejobs-2015-11-27.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/multimedia\/podcast\/naturejobs\/naturejobs-2015-11-27.mp3\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/multimedia\/podcast\/naturejobs\/naturejobs-2015-11-27.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a class=\"wpn-image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/files\/2014\/07\/Naturejobs-podcast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3805 wpn-image\" title=\"Naturejobs-podcast\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/files\/2014\/07\/Naturejobs-podcast.jpg\" alt=\"Naturejobs-podcast\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Success is advancing from failure to failure without loosing enthusiasm.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<em>Not<\/em> said by either Winston Churchill or Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The things I remember best from college were the questions I got wrong on the exams.&#8221; &#8211; Kathryn Yatrakis, dean of academic affairs, Columbia College.<\/p>\n<p>These are two of my favourite quotes from Stuart Firestein&#8217;s (professor of neuroscience at Columbia University, NY) new book, <em>Failure: Why science is so successful<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Science&#8217;s history is littered with failures. Without them, science woudn&#8217;t have advanced to the point it&#8217;s at today. And yet a negative connotation goes hand-in-hand with it.<\/p>\n<p>In this final <em>Naturejobs<\/em> podcast of 2015, I speak to Firestein about what failure in science means, what the negative connotations are, why they exist, why they\u00a0impact young scientists and what they can do to overcome them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe things I remember best from college were the questions I got wrong on the exams.\u201d \u2013 Kathryn Yatrakis, dean of academic affairs, Columbia College.&nbsp; <a href=\"\/naturejobs\/2015\/11\/27\/careers-in-science-celebrate-the-failures#more-8535\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/11\/27\/careers-in-science-celebrate-the-failures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[300,367093,161,365,367095,256,367091,236],"class_list":["post-8535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-careers","tag-failure","tag-funding","tag-podcast-2","tag-publish-or-perish","tag-science","tag-stuart-firetein","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}