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To get hired, you have to get noticed.

Tamily Weissman-Unni feels like a failure—but she's not.

Scientists with a passion for pedagogy are turning to alternative certification programs to facilitate a transition into the classroom.

A group of ERC Starting Grantees has created a new platform where top young researchers can raise their voices and influence science policy.
 

A report explores the potential effects of current proposals to "staple a green card" to graduate degrees granted in the United States.

Our columnist offers tips and strategies to help you, dear reader, walk out of any exhibit hall loaded down with free corporate goods.
 

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

A Los Angeles judge denies a motion to dismiss charges for the UCLA professor's role in technician's chemistry lab death.

I’ll take a good résumé or CV over a perfect one any day of the week because the good one can be done in a short time, allowing plenty of time for networking -- indisputably the single most important step in a job search -- whereas writing the perfect document could take you (and your CV or résumé) out of circulation for months.

Why do industry leaders and policymakers continue to argue that there is a domestic shortage of STEM talent despite numerous reports to the contrary?
 

A recent analysis in neuroscience urges caution both in reading the literature and in designing your own experiments.

Sequestration reveals vulnerabilities in the nation's system for funding science.

One of the oldest paths into science writing careers has ended.

Janet Davison Rowley, 88, was just awarded the Albany prize for work she did at home while her children were at school.

We asked, they answered, and we wrote it down.

What Dow Chemical's chief technology officer looks for in new employees may not be what you think.

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At a meeting on Long Island, some neuroscientists got tips on how to win an R01 in lean times.

"Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." --Dwight Eisenhower

"You need to manage your laboratory the same way you do your science: boldly but methodically, with the right balance of purposefulness and opportunism."