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Dodging snipers, fleeing war: displaced researchers share their stories
Science on a shoestring: the researchers paid $15 a month
Shielding science from politics: how Joe Biden’s research integrity drive is faring
Unlocking the mysteries of the brain’s neocortex
How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive
How trauma’s effects can pass from generation to generation
How deep brain stimulation is helping people with severe depression
Restoring the sense of smell to COVID-19 patients
Understanding the difference between the mind and the brain
The hospital conversation that set a young epilepsy patient on the neuroscience career path
How ice hockey helped me to explain how unborn babies’ brains are built
The brain science collaboration that offers hope to blind people
Social sponges: Gendered brain development comes from society, not biology
What happens in our brains when we're trying to be funny
Marvelling at the mystery of consciousness through a scientific lens
Brain and behaviour: understanding the neural effects of cannabis
Showing the love as a science leader: the emotional side of empowering and inspiring others
Leadership in science: “There is nothing wrong with being wrong”
Why empathy is a key quality in science leadership
Mastering the art of saying no should be part of a research leader’s toolkit
Leadership in science: how female researchers are breaking up the boys’ club
Rescinded job offers and quarantine hotels: what lockdown lab moves taught us
Moving labs: a checklist for researchers with disabilities
‘The dumbest person in the room:’ moving labs and switching fields
Moving labs, moving countries: how to get both right
‘Trailing spouses’ and ‘two body’ problems: how to move labs as a scientist couple
‘Is the PI a jerk?’ Key questions to ask when you’re moving lab
More support needed to survive the mid-career stage in science
Mid-career scientists: advice to our younger selves
Why the mid-career stage in science can feel like a second puberty
Burnout and breakdowns: how mid-career scientists can protect themselves
When life gets in the way of scientists’ mid-career plans
Muddle of the middle: why mid-career scientists feel neglected
Science in Africa: tackling mistrust and misinformation
Science in Africa: a wishlist for scientist mothers
Science in Africa: Diaspora perspectives
Science in Africa: ‘The world needs science and science needs women’
Science in Africa: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Science in Africa: is ‘decolonization’ losing all meaning?
Science in Africa: lessons from the past, hopes for the future
Science in Africa: a continent on the cusp of change
The Dutch city where industry–academia collaborations flourish
Beyond academia: how to “de-risk” a mid-career move to industry
How to select your first scientific role in industry
Debunking the industry–academia barrier myth
Beyond academia: Planning the perfect exit strategy for a scientific career move
Breaking down the barriers that curtail industry collaborations and career moves
How the pandemic widened scientists' mentoring networks
How to keep the scientific-mentoring magic alive
The many mentoring types explained
Mentoring, coaching, supervising: what’s the difference?
How COVID-19 changed scientific mentoring
The mentoring messages that can get lost in translation
Why science needs strong mentors
Communities, COVID and credit: the state of science collaborations
Business of science: The transferable skills that straddle academia and industry
Business of science: The setbacks that can help your start-up succeed
Business of science: How to grow your start-up
Business of science: How technology-transfer teams can help your spin-off succeed
Business of science: How to register a patent
Business of science: Tips and tricks for a perfect investor pitch
Science diversified: Tackling an ‘ableist’ culture in research
Science diversified: Black researchers’ perspectives
Science diversified: The roads less travelled to research careers
Science diversified: Queer perspectives on research
Science diversified: The men who say no to manels
Science Diversified: Cosmopolitan campus
Science Diversified: Starting young
The postdoc career journeys that date back to kindergarten
A kinder research culture is not a panacea
Planning a postdoc before moving to industry? Think again
The career costs of COVID-19: how postdocs and PhD students are paying the price
Stop the postdoc treadmill … I want to get off
Why life as a postdoc is like a circling plane at LaGuardia Airport
How to craft and communicate a simple science story
How to sell your public outreach ideas to funders
How films and festivals can showcase your science
How to transition from the lab to full-time science communicator
Coronavirus conversations: Science communication during a pandemic
Science communication made simple
How the academic paper is evolving in the 21st century
How to get media coverage for your research
How to bounce back from a bruising peer-review or paper rejection
How to write a top-notch paper
How apartheid's legacy can still cast a shadow over doctoral education in South Africa
The PhD thesis and how to boost its impact
Team PhD
It's time to fix the "one size fits all" PhD
Too many PhDs, too few research positions
My courtroom battles to halt illegal peatland fires in Indonesia
Working Scientist: The award-winning neuroscientist who blazes a trail for open hardware
Working Scientist podcast: How to inspire young women to consider scientific careerssode
Start looking for jobs before you finish your PhD
Switching scientific disciplines
The school physics talk that proved more popular than Lady Gaga's boots
Career transitions from physics to data science
Global career moves, and how to survive them
Why physics is still a man's world, and how to change it
Talking about a technological revolution in the lab
Slack, and other technologies that are transforming lab life