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The couple started looking "around in the world [to see] where we could both have nice positions," and they found what they were looking for in Spain.

Here's everything you need to know about delivering oral scientific presentations (except the science), all in one place.

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

"They think of us as scruffy and geeky. In return, we think of them as stupid and greedy."

"Until now, only rare exceptions gave scientists a chance to enter the schoolteacher career path."

Quantifiable survey data are more resistant to dismissive interpretations than more subjective perceptions of the "quality" of the training environment.

The Internet and ubiquitous video are changing how science is done.

"The tipping point is when scientists' commitments to industry-funded research compromise their ability to do what their university appointments require: promote the public good through training students and pursuing research on important issues."

For behavioral scientists considering a career in public polling research, it helps to have a fascination with numbers.

A key indicator of your ‘lab cred’ is whether people you’ve never met know who you are when you first meet them.

"There is a degree of dishonesty in the research community: a community that is supposedly devoted to finding "truth" and receives a significant amount of trust from the general public."

Remind yourself constantly that the reason you get up in the morning is to write scientific papers.

"This may sound a bit on the light side, but it guarantees that you are working on all, and no more, of the essential ingredients that need to be incorporated in your paper."