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Jennifer Raff at Violent Metaphors offers tips on peer reviewing manuscripts.

Scientists create a group to help enhance their chattiness.

Jeremy Berg at Pittsburgh argues that research and the training of new researchers should be separated.

CareerCast ranks 200 professions in the US.

Michael Elves and Ian Gibson from the Newton's Apple Foundation write that scientists should become involved in policy-making.

Stanford University School of Medicine's Ben Barres writes that graduate students should look for both scientific and mentorship ability in their advisors.

To make a splash, a postdoc suggests taking on new perspectives in research.

A new report examines trends in graduate education in the US.

IEEE Spectrum's Robert Charette argues that there is a surplus rather than a shortage of STEM workers.

Cell biologist Jenny Rohn describes her worries about being a pregnant researcher at Occam's Corner.

Blogger Prof-like Substance is about to submit the tenure package and takes stock of the past few years.

Nicholas Wolfinger writes at the Atlantic that academia needs to evolve to retain women in the sciences.