Science Careers Seeks Bloggers

We at Science Careers like to tell stories. Now we want some of you to tell your stories on Science Careers.

We're looking for regular bloggers from all career stages--undergraduate, graduate, postdoc, assistant professor, young professional, and so on--who study or work in academia or industry, or who are making a move to another sector in which they intend to apply their scientific skills. Career bloggers will represent a wide range of viewpoints: women and men, physicists and gastroenterologists, from industry and from academe, black, white, Hispanic, foreign and native-born, blogging about postdoc rights or motherhood, lab experiences or time management--or whatever. Contributors will write about all things vaguely science-career related; the only other criterion is that it be original and fun to read.

Science is a wide world, and experiences of doing science are diverse. We want to capture a slice of the experience of doing science, and we need your help to do it. It doesn't matter if you're already blogging, have been thinking about starting a blog, or first thought of it 12 seconds ago when you saw the headline.

Interested in being in the first class of science career--and Science Careers--bloggers? Please send us a short writing sample--500 words or less. Suggested topics: an interesting conference experience; something appalling that happened in the lab; balancing work in science with ... fatherhood; a successful--or unsuccessful--networking experience; your favorite laboratory animal. Could be anything. Send it to me at jaustin@aaas.org. Contributions from women, and from minorities underrepresented in the sciences, are strongly encouraged.

Jim Austin is editor of Science Careers.	Comments, suggestions? Please send your feedback to our editor.
Photo (top): Bryan Partington	DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.a0800110