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Are chemists hurting their earnings potential and endangering their chances for future success by staying too long in postdoc positions?

A desire to prove to disadvantaged students that they, too, could be successful carried Knatokie Ford through her graduate program at Harvard.

More open methods of peer review offer advantages and disadvantages for both authors and reviewers.

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

In the United Kingdom, recent Ph.D. recipients have weathered the recession in better shape than most.

myIDP is a free, Web-based career-planning tool that was created to help graduate students and postdocs in the sciences define and pursue their career goals.

As traditional disciplines become more data-focused, traditional scientists need to become more "pi-shaped".

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

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

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

The Welsh government is accelerating its efforts to create a globally competitive science and technology base.

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

Ron Hira testifies that the proposed bill falls short of addressing problems with H1-B and other high-skill visa programs.

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.

Scientists taking part in an open peer-review process can get more recognition and an opportunity to weigh in.

While there are signs that the gender gap in science is closing, more needs to be done at policy level.

SEIU's Adjunct Action project is striking into one of the nation's most college-dense regions.
 

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.

There are risks and difficulties in interactive peer review.