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The importance of addressing researchers’ recognition and reward structures, arguing it is time to move to a system that uses metrics and indicators that incentivise the types of behaviours that are good for research and researchers.
Could postdoc unions be the next big thing in collective bargaining among academics? Recent filing at University of Washington could be beginning of a new round of organizing.
Open-access publishing held to the same standards as paid subscription journals.
Permanent jobs in academia are scarce, and someone needs to let PhD students know.
80% of faculty exhibit a rich diversity of productivity patterns.
A new study highlights the variety of productivity trajectories among faculty members in computer science.
Professors and aspiring professors are complicit in perpetuating a rigged system.
With the aim of maintaining the competitiveness of Swiss research, the SNSF is launching a new career funding scheme at assistant professor level.
Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews.
They’re a part of every career, and being upfront about them can help put things in perspective.
The waiting is, indeed, the hardest part, but some academics cope with it better than others.
A paper showing that science and engineering PhD students lose interest in an academic career over the course of graduate training.
A survey of 190 postdocs in North America reveals a surprisingly unhappy postdoc community with low satisfaction with life scores.
Research institutions should explicitly seek job candidates who can be frankly self-critical of their work, says Jeffrey Flier.
