Time to Talk About Why so Many Postgrads Have Poor Mental Health
An outpouring on Twitter highlights the acute pressures on young scientists.
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Assessing Scientists for Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure
A growing number of scientific leaders believe the current system of faculty incentives and rewards is misaligned with the needs of society. Here we propose six principles for assessing scientists and associated research and policy implications.
Talent vs Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure
Article underlines the risks of distributing excessive honors or resources to people who, at the end of the day, could have been simply luckier than others. Policy hypotheses are addressed to show the most efficient strategies for public funding of research in order to improve meritocracy, diversity and innovation.
How to Sail Smoothly from Academia to Industry
To beat the stiff competition, highlight your skills in collaboration, teamwork and meeting deadlines.
Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards
Work-Life Balance Survey 2018: Long Hours Take Their Toll on Academics
Times Higher Education’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships and family around their ever-growing workloads.
Early Career Researchers and Their Involvement in Peer Review
A discussion about the role and concerns of graduate students and postdocs in peer review.
Kid Co-Authors in South Korea Spur Government Probe
The South Korean government is expanding an investigation into researchers who named their children as co-authors on papers.
Cheating on my Mentor
For the first 2 years of my Ph.D. program, my primary adviser was always available when I needed help, promptly responding to emails and meeting with me when questions arose. But that abruptly changed when he went on sabbatical and left the country.
Survey with Early-Career Researchers
Many researchers have strong views on peer review. To find out what early-career researchers think we conducted a survey in which we asked 10 questions about different aspects of peer review.
Should we Steer Clear of the Winner-Takes-All Approach?
Scientists in New Zealand held the first ‘Kindness in Science’ workshop in December 2017 at the University of Auckland, hoping to kick-start a movement that will offer a kinder, gentler and more inclusive scientific culture. The group’s mantra is “Everyone here is smart and kind — don’t distinguish yourself by being otherwise.”
What Makes Academic Careers Less Insecure? The Role of Individual-Level Antecedents
What Makes Academic Careers Less Insecure? The Role of Individual-Level Antecedents
Paper advising universities to provide early-career researchers with temporal space for research and networking, facilitate stays at other universities, inform them about career success factors, and tailor faculty development programmes to the distinct stages of academic careers.
Put It on Camera: How to Get into Scientific Film- and Video-Making
It’s easier than ever to learn how to produce captivating clips that can boost your scientific outreach - or open the door to a new job.
Productivity for Researchers: 9 Brilliant Tips
9 productivity tips and tricks for tackling to-do lists as a researcher.
A Machiavellian Guide to Getting Ahead in Academia
Rogier Creemers advises early career academics to be ruthless and put themselves first to move up the ladder.
Scientists Tainted by Misconduct of Former Collaborators
The stigma has a punitive effect on citations for prior collaborators of fraudulent researchers.
Top Ten Tips to Kick-Start Your Career in 2018
Scientists and career experts reveal how to take your job to the next level.
The Young and the Restless
Initiatives are in place to keep early-career investigators in the biomedical system, but more support is needed.
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