Securing a leadership role requires a CV that showcases not only your skills but also your ability to drive success and inspire teams. Yet, many senior professionals fall into common CV pitfalls that can hinder their chances of standing out. By avoiding these five blunders, you can craft a CV that commands attention and positions […]
Publishing records provide information about the lengths of scientists’ careers in academia. Credit: Nickbeer/Getty Female scientists are quitting academic publishing earlier than their male counterparts, even in biological-science disciplines that have roughly equal representation. A study tracked the scholarly publications of more than 86,000 scientists in 38 countries working in neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, […]
The University of Toronto in Canada raised its graduate-student stipends last November.Credit: James Wagner/Getty Stipends for biology and physics graduate students at Canadian universities fall well short of a living wage, an analysis reports. “All of the minimum stipends we found were below the poverty line after tuition, except for the physics department at the […]
Credit: David Attie/Getty In 2003, Wendy Dossett chaired an international symposium at a UK university. “I don’t remember chairing it. I know that I did, but I don’t remember anything that happened,” she says. At the time, she did not think that she had an alcohol problem. “I thought I could not possibly be an […]
Students at New College of Florida, Sarasota, protest last year at plans, now in place, to change the university’s programmes on diversity, equity and inclusion.Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP/Alamy A survey of faculty members working in US southern states shows that a significant majority frequently witness or experience political interference that affects morale and is causing many […]
“When I was a child living on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, my parents would take me to see golden-mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata palliata) in the forest most weekends. Howler monkeys are like big, hairy gardeners, spreading seeds from many trees. I understood at an early age that if we preserve the […]
”There’s not a lot of gigs, there’s an over surge of queens,” said Season 15 contestant Salina EsTitties in an interview with PRIDE. “There’s no answer. I think it’s just the economy and I think gay bars and spaces are struggling as a whole.” Despite stating that much of the fanbase is younger and that […]
Download the 27 December long read podcast Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991, after years of collecting examples of weird research that he included in the Journal of Irreproducible Results. The aim of these satirical awards is to honour achievements that “make people laugh, then think”. While the initial response from the […]
Concealing some of the information on job applications led to more women being hired.Credit: Christopher Ames/Getty In 2017, when Sherri Christian returned to her institution after a year-long sabbatical, she looked around the biochemistry department and realized that she was the last female hire, seven years earlier. At the time, there were 19 members, just […]
AI adoption is on the rise in Singapore, with 52% of workers in the country using the technology in their jobs, according to Slack’s new Workforce Index. Primeimages | E+ | Getty Images The use of artificial intelligence has grown across industries globally, but there is still some confusion over how to properly use the […]
