Life with an abusive lab boss: one postdoc’s story
Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse
Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse
Leading US science funding agency reports three straight years of record levels of awards to its early-stage applicants, with some gender and racial gains
Walter Rosenthal aims to use German Rectors’ Conference presidency to find common ground between applied science and traditional universities
Clearly describing the inefficient and damaging situation might point the way to better alternatives, says Eric Silverman
For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?, asks Sibylle Anderl
They think I’m a rising star, says a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford, but my hopes of a real career in science are sinking
Brussels, 25 Nov 2003 Last year the international science magazine The Scientist invited readers in the USA, Canada and western Europe to give their opinions of the 'Best places to work for postdocs...
Brussels, 25 Nov 2003 Last year the international science magazine The Scientist invited readers in the USA, Canada and western Europe to give their opinions of the 'Best places to work for postdocs...
Early results of 2014 vulnerable skills survey by BBSRC and MRC highlight concerns and importance of multidisciplinarity
Progress is being made on promoting women to top positions, but very few presidents hail from the former Communist bloc
Alliances with university colleagues can be inspiring and life-affirming but may also be grounded in little more than ambition or survival instinct. Six writers reflect on the joys and challenges of...
Doing admin is a poor use of your time as an expert. Make sure you invoice for it at your highest rate, says Andy Farnell
The Dutch scientist on the physics of surfing, his re-entry into additive manufacturing and how he’s ‘drinking from the firehose’ as dean of sport
Other disciplines and central administration ‘siphon off’ funding, stunting capacity-building and early career researchers, experts say