Making other plans
Universities benefit from the large pool of cheap labour provided by PhD students and postdocs, but there aren’t enough academic jobs to go around, so young scholars should prepare for the...
Universities benefit from the large pool of cheap labour provided by PhD students and postdocs, but there aren’t enough academic jobs to go around, so young scholars should prepare for the...
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
Surprise gave way to empathy when Terran Lane gave up a tenured post, full of anger and sorrow at the erosion of an institution he loved
PhDs and postdocs turn to social media to answer their pressing questions. Elizabeth Gibney reports
An exploration of the dark side of the neuroscience force leaves Tristan Bekinschtein hungry for more
Matthew Reisz on the awards that highlight the developing world's leading young female scientists
A renowned immunologist whose life was turned upside down when it emerged that one of his postdoctoral researchers had falsified experimental results tells Paul Jump that the sector needs a culture...
Technology Strategy Board aims to yield economic harvest with sector's help. Elizabeth Gibney reports
Researcher queries extent of professor's contribution to prizewinning immunity study. Paul Jump writes
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
A new initiative aims to tackle the 'leaky pipeline' for women in UK science, reports Nicola Davis
Open-access publishingCORE melds UK repositoriesA search engine that allows researchers to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories has been developed by The Open...
Miles Hewstone discusses a heinous data-faking scandal and the lessons that must be learned to stop the ‘betrayers of the truth’
Uncertainty is the status quo for most early career researchers, for whom job security is generally a forlorn hope. But that will change for 50 postdoctoral researchers being sought by the University...
The right state formula is needed to tackle the wasteful mismatch between so many trained scientists and so few jobs