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An open letter calls for funding agencies and hiring institutions to evaluate scientists by their research and not what journals they publish in.

Institutional fellowships offer recent Ph.D.s the chance to leap right into running their own labs.

This cognitive scientist/opera singer learned to love science and music separately before figuring out how to bring them together.

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

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

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

An NIH recruiting program for intramural scientists flips the job application script, seeking out talented scientists first and then figuring out where and how to employ them.

Underrepresented minorities increase their share of faculty posts at 2-year colleges, while Asians rise at 4-year institutions and in industry.

A recent NSF report finds that efforts to improve the representation of women, minorities, and people with disabilities in science and engineering are slow going.

In response to the sequester, the National Science Foundation plans to award approximately 1000 fewer grants.

Experts discussed how mentoring differs for minorities and how it can be tweaked to ensure that scientists don't hit a "mentoring glass ceiling."

At a session at the AAAS Annual Meeting, featured members of the ACS presidential committee on fixing graduate chemistry education, expounded on the report's recommendations.

NSF empowers graduate students with small awards to help them improve their graduate programs.

A panel of workforce experts at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting urged NIH to be more aggressive in fixing biomedical workforce training.

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

A report from the Australian government finds Aussie graduate students and postdocs, like their U.S. counterparts, frustrated by the job market.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.

The agency has updated its grant proposal guide, but its new use of "products" in the biosketch, in place of publications, is ambiguous.

In implementing the recommendations of its Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, NIH decides to play it safe.

Psychologists share tips for figuring out what's sapping your enthusiasm—and how to get it back.