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Perception that time should be spent improving research prowess.
Working longer hours leads to poorer productivity. If you’re trying to impress people and move up the ranks, the solution isn’t to work longer, but to work smarter.
To drive discovery, scientists heading up research teams large and small need to learn how people operate, argue C. Leiserson and C. McVinney.
Studying researchers’ CVs shows that moving jobs does not always boost a researcher’s productivity.
in 2012 a new law ordered French public employers to offer stable employment to workers after 6 years of short-term contracts. It backfired.
You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?
Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.
Biological data will continue to pile up unless those who analyse it are recognized as creative collaborators in need of career paths, says Jeffrey Chang.
There is a growing number of postdocs and few places in academia for them to go. But change could be on the way.
Reasons for removing time-bound criteria from MRC fellowship applications to help give people the time they need.
International graduate students and their decisions to stay or leave the U.S. upon graduation.
An astonishingly small number of elite universities produce an overwhelming number of professors.
In an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Dr. Francis Collins, head of NIH, offered a familiar warning to lawmakers considering future appropriations for scientific research.
The Unionization of Postdoctoral Workers at the University of California.
Last spring, the four of us published an essay in PNAS in which we described the severe problems now faced by scientists working in the US biomedical research system, recommending several steps that might be taken to improve the situation...
In April 2014, four leaders of the scientific establishment issued
A quantitative understanding of faculty hiring as a system is lacking. Our study suggests that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound social inequality.
Analysis of millions of papers finds that junior biomedical researchers tend to work on more innovative topics than their senior colleagues do.
A wide range of essential under-the-radar tasks sustain academic culture, but who will perform them in an increasingly careerist academy?
Some early career scholars feel there is not enough support for academics who reach out, say Richard Watermeyer and Jamie Lewis.
Another set of ideas for fixing the funding crisis for young researchers.
Holly Else examines European efforts to make academic career paths less challenging to navigate
For all but a small percentage of aspiring researchers, doing a postdoc at a university is a lousy idea because it will neither result in an academic job nor otherwise advance one’s career.
On the delay in young scientists obtaining NIH grants.
A light-hearted opinion piece about the arbitrariness of academic success.
Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.
Two reports highlight the plight of postdocs on both sides of the pond aiming for academia and how it might threathen research integrety.
