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"His lab mantra was, 'It's better to ask forgiveness than permission,' 'If I don't know about it, it doesn't happen,' [and] 'Get it done at all costs, and don't tell me how.' " --Maura Lee Upright

A British scientist is going to prison for 3 months for falsifying data.

Pressure on scientists to produce impressive results that will bring in grants or renewals has never been greater.

"Nowadays," she continued, "people have much more freedom in their personal lives and professional choices than they did when they were sold to an apprenticeship in the old days, and yet, at the same time, they're buying into this almost feudal system in which once you dedicate a certain number of years, you are bound by the amount of time you've spent." --Allegra Goodman

Well-informed students make better decisions about doctoral training and postdoctoral careers.

"Programs should provide all NRSA trainees with additional professional development skills and career guidance."

Can young scientists publish without a mentor's support?

In an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Donny Wong shares some key insights into how to successfully make the transition from a grad school bench to a corporate office.

A report issued this month by the American Association of University Professors concludes that academic researchers should have the authority to decide whether their proposed studies require review by an institutional review board. 

Canada is now moving toward high-skilled immigration based on employment, according to the newsmagazine Maclean’s.
 

Postdocs' prospects are dimmed by the new Administration's many competing priorities and a lack of understanding at the highest levels of the scientific work-force glut.

"I don't think that a union and a professional society are mutually exclusive," said NPA spokesperson Orfeu Buxton.

In hard economic times, the controversial H-1B visa program, which lowers wages for Americans while exposing foreign scientists to the whims of employers, needs major reform.

Research finds that scientists' career-related preferences are far wider than stereotypes suggest -- and that industry is likely to be an excellent choice for many.

" Narod has spent 2 decades simultaneously "at the vanguard of a brand-new science" and at the helm of a corporation lucrative enough to support overseas mountaineering trips and a handsome home in an upscale neighborhood."

“You bet your career. We bet ten million dollars.” --Gerald Rubin

Research suggests that social structure, not personal ethics, determines the frequency of scientific misconduct.

The state employment board count of cards confirms a majority, officially unionizing the nation's largest group of postdocs.

Jones believes that senior scientists have "lost a sense of accountability to the next generation insofar as all of our interests in them are self interests ... so that
our career can get advanced but not necessarily
their career."

Another needless death at a university research facility points up the scandal of lax safety standards in academe.