Nicholas Wolfinger writes at the Atlantic that academia needs to evolve to retain women in the sciences.
A venture capitalist suggests bragging your way to success in STEM fields.
In PLOS Computational Biology, Marco Pautasso offer tips for nailing a literature review.
Online courses may offer a range of benefits to advanced science education, research.
IOM urges collaborative focus for training next wave of translational researchers.
Mentors pass on many skills — to emulate and to avoid — to their students.
E. O. Wilson discusses good traits for a scientist to have.
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To be included on the author list, investigators should meet certain criteria.
When negotiating, a new research paper suggests it helps to have a specific number in mind.
A science policy writer argues that STEM programs negatively affect the employment market.
Blogger Prof-like Substance writes that scientists have to be able to sell their research ideas.
A new professor takes stock.
James Watson offers advice for postdocs.
The Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health says that progress reporting for SNAP awards changes this month.
Scientific American looks at the number of women earning advanced degrees in STEM fields.
Duffymeg at Dynamic Ecology discusses how to prioritize manuscript to-do lists.
Amy Freitag at Southern Fried Science offers practical advice for choosing a grad school.
A study suggests that differences in verbal abilities among people who are good at math influences career choice.
Bitesize Bio's Ellen Moran offers a strategy for making it through post-doc interviews.
Being a data scientist is supposed to be the next cool job, and Nature Jobs offers some tips on breaking into the field.
The National Institutes of Health's Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training program aims to prepare students for a plethora of career paths.
Bitesize Bio's Laura Fulford offers tips for a good thesis defense.
A career development expert advocates asking yourself a few questions before signing on the dotted line.
Bitesize Bio examines the dearth of women in top academia positions.
University of California, San Diego researchers investigate how skin care products influence the skin microbiome, Scientific American reports.
Three genetic testing companies form a coalition to influence how Congress considers genetic privacy, The Hill reports.
The Wall Street Journal examines billing codes used by uBiome.
In PNAS this week: links between lung adenocarcinoma and lncRNA, algorithm to impute and cluster Hi-C interaction profiles from single cells, and more.
