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 […]
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 […]
CAREER FEATURE 09 December 2024 Researchers seeking to banish workaholic behaviours, boost their pay, have more influence at work or quit academia will find plenty of advice in these books, all published this year.
Artificial-intelligence tools have helped Candice Chu to streamline academic writing.Credit: MirageC/Getty Since starting my PhD in veterinary pathobiology in 2014, I have looked for ways to streamline my literature-review workflow. Every day, I search for papers, import them into my citation manager, read them and take notes. I can then incorporate those references and insights […]
Nature, Published online: 28 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03534-8 Four researchers who left Serbia to pursue their careers rely on this group to keep in touch and to navigate life in science.
Illustrations: Richard L. Tillotson Art and science have a long and intertwined history. During his five-year research trip on HMS BeagleCharles Darwin drew his own finches; and Marianne North, his contemporary, was both a prolific painter and a botanist who set up a dedicated gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. Their artistic […]
Olena Melnyk at the Salisbury Plain military training area, UK, testing a soil-sampling protocol for use in bomb craters.Credit: Mark Horton As head of the International Projects Division at Sumy National Agrarian University (SNAU) in Ukraine, Olena Melnyk often strongly encouraged researchers to keep up with the latest developments by building international networks. Little did […]
Cecilie Steenbuch Traberg’s three children were all born while she worked towards her PhD.Credit: Weile’s Foto I’ll never forget when I was sitting in a lecture hall, overhearing fellow students behind me discussing how having a baby during graduate school is “career suicide”. When I stood up, revealing my 30-week bump, their shocked expressions spoke […]
Illustration: David Parkins The problem Dear Nature, I am a chemical engineer with a PhD, working in the food industry. I’m at a point in my career where I need to decide whether I want a managerial career path or should stick with technical, problem-solving work in research and development. My biggest worry is that, […]
Researcher Yan Zeng looks over the machinery at the A-Lab, a fully automated laboratory at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab Stephan Noack’s official title is bioprocess engineer. In simple terms, he is a problem-solver. His colleagues at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany knock on his office door armed with […]
