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Industry partnership programs: A new type of PhD?
External involvement in PhD programmes might help to fix academia’s big problem The problems with traditional PhD programs are well-documented: money is tight, funding is limited, academics often...
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Should you join a start-up company after academia?
A career in a start-up company is more than just risk, discovers Idil Cazimoglu. This piece was one of two winners of the Science Innovation Union writing competition, Oxford. “Risky.” My housemate,...
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Adios to academia
By Virginia Gewin US science and engineering PhD students are losing interest in academic careers because their career preferences change throughout their training, finds a study – not because of...
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How to mentor your supervisor
Mentoring is invariably presented as something “done” by someone senior to someone junior, but it works both ways, finds David Payne. Nature’s 2017 PhD survey, published this week, paints a mixed...
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Abandon ship, or learn to swim: the gamble young scientists must make
For scientists, there’s nothing more frightening than a major grant rejection. With the scarcity of funding at the forefront of everyone’s thoughts, it’s time to talk about options, says Atma...
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Changes to the U.S. tax code will harm graduate student mobility and career...
Increased financial burden for students will harm science in the long run, says Aliyah Weinstein. A recent editorial in Nature described the harm that newly proposed changes to the United States tax...
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The urgent need to recognize and value academic labor
Two Harvard professors share their thoughts on the latest from the US Republican Party’s tuition waiver tax plan. Recently the House of Representatives essentially voted to destroy graduate education...
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Know the odds
The odds of landing a tenure-track position in the life sciences are low while the chances of being stuck in multiple postdocs are high. So the leaders of nine top US universities and one research...
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Looking for a lab to do your PhD? – If I had known, part I
Struggling to choose the right lab for your PhD? Elena Blanco-Suárez shares what you should be looking for. When I was looking for a PhD lab I had a pretty clear idea of the techniques I wanted to...
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Some science and some serendipity
What at first looks like a setback may be an opportunity in disguise, says Flavia Scialpi I keep my business cards in the top drawer of my desk at work. They are in two bulky boxes and take up a lot of...
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