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Working Scientist is the Nature Careers podcast. It is produced by Nature Portfolio, publishers of the international science journal Nature. Working Scientist is a regular free audio show featuring advice and information from global industry experts with a strong focus on supporting early career researchers working in academia and other sectors.
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How a young physicist’s job move helped Argentina join the ATLAS collaboration
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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How to plug the female mentoring gap in Latin American science
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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‘Maybe I was never meant to be in science’: how imposter syndrome seizes scientist mothers
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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‘Hopeless, burnt out, sad’: how political change is impacting female researchers in Latin America
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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How we connect girls in Brazil to inspiring female scientists
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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‘There is no cookie cutter female scientist’
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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How Tiger Worm toilets could help to deliver clean water and sanitation for all
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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How we boosted female faculty numbers in male-dominated departments
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Building robots to get kids hooked on STEM subjects
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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‘It reflects the society we live in where a young person does not feel that life is worth living’
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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‘Blue foods’ to tackle hidden hunger and improve nutrition
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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People need more than cash to rise out of poverty
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Chandrayaan and what it means for India's brain drain
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Why we need an academic career path that combines science and art
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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How to create compelling scientific data visualisations
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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How ChatGPT and sounds from space brought a “luminous jelly” to life
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Scientific illustration: striking the balance between creativity and accuracy
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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The unexpected outcomes of artist-scientist collaborations
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Art and science: close cousins or polar opposites?
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Could new ‘narrative’ CVs transform research culture?
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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How to craft a research project with non-academic collaborators
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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“Couldn’t cut it as a scientist.” How lab managers and technicians are smashing outdated stereotypes
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Culture clashes: Unpicking the power dynamics between research managers and academics
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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This alternative way to measure research impact made judges cry with joy
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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“Just get the admin to do it.” Why research managers are feeling misunderstood
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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A funder's guide to tackling setbacks and winning grants
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Sexual harassment in science: tackling abusers, protecting targets, changing cultures
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Bullying in academia: why it happens and how to stop it
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Magical meeting: a collaboration to tackle child malnutrition in Bangladesh
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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How to deliver a safer research culture for LGBTQIA+ researchers
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Trolled in science: “Hundreds of hateful comments in a single day”
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May 26, 2023 |
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Dodging snipers, fleeing war: displaced researchers share their stories
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May 19, 2023 |
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Science on a shoestring: the researchers paid $15 a month
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May 12, 2023 |
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Shielding science from politics: how Joe Biden’s research integrity drive is faring
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May 05, 2023 |
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Unlocking the mysteries of the brain’s neocortex
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May 03, 2023 |
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How to keep Ukraine’s research hopes alive
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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How trauma’s effects can pass from generation to generation
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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How deep brain stimulation is helping people with severe depression
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Restoring the sense of smell to COVID-19 patients
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Understanding the difference between the mind and the brain
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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The hospital conversation that set a young epilepsy patient on the neuroscience career path
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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How ice hockey helped me to explain how unborn babies’ brains are built
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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The brain science collaboration that offers hope to blind people
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Social sponges: Gendered brain development comes from society, not biology
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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What happens in our brains when we're trying to be funny
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Marvelling at the mystery of consciousness through a scientific lens
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Brain and behaviour: understanding the neural effects of cannabis
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Showing the love as a science leader: the emotional side of empowering and inspiring others
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Leadership in science: “There is nothing wrong with being wrong”
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Why empathy is a key quality in science leadership
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Mastering the art of saying no should be part of a research leader’s toolkit
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Leadership in science: how female researchers are breaking up the boys’ club
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Rescinded job offers and quarantine hotels: what lockdown lab moves taught us
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Moving labs: a checklist for researchers with disabilities
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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‘The dumbest person in the room:’ moving labs and switching fields
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Moving labs, moving countries: how to get both right
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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‘Trailing spouses’ and ‘two body’ problems: how to move labs as a scientist couple
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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‘Is the PI a jerk?’ Key questions to ask when you’re moving lab
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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More support needed to survive the mid-career stage in science
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Mid-career scientists: advice to our younger selves
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Why the mid-career stage in science can feel like a second puberty
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Burnout and breakdowns: how mid-career scientists can protect themselves
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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When life gets in the way of scientists’ mid-career plans
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Muddle of the middle: why mid-career scientists feel neglected
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Science in Africa: tackling mistrust and misinformation
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Science in Africa: a wishlist for scientist mothers
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Science in Africa: Diaspora perspectives
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Science in Africa: ‘The world needs science and science needs women’
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May 27, 2022 |
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Science in Africa: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
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May 18, 2022 |
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Science in Africa: is ‘decolonization’ losing all meaning?
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May 11, 2022 |
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Science in Africa: lessons from the past, hopes for the future
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May 04, 2022 |
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Science in Africa: a continent on the cusp of change
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The Dutch city where industry–academia collaborations flourish
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Beyond academia: how to “de-risk” a mid-career move to industry
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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How to select your first scientific role in industry
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Debunking the industry–academia barrier myth
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Beyond academia: Planning the perfect exit strategy for a scientific career move
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Breaking down the barriers that curtail industry collaborations and career moves
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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How the pandemic widened scientists' mentoring networks
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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How to keep the scientific-mentoring magic alive
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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The many mentoring types explained
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Mentoring, coaching, supervising: what’s the difference?
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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How COVID-19 changed scientific mentoring
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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The mentoring messages that can get lost in translation
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Why science needs strong mentors
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Communities, COVID and credit: the state of science collaborations
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Business of science: The transferable skills that straddle academia and industry
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Business of science: The setbacks that can help your start-up succeed
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Business of science: How to grow your start-up
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Business of science: How technology-transfer teams can help your spin-off succeed
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May 26, 2021 |
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Business of science: How to register a patent
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May 19, 2021 |
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Business of science: Tips and tricks for a perfect investor pitch
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May 12, 2021 |
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Science diversified: Tackling an ‘ableist’ culture in research
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Science diversified: Black researchers’ perspectives
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Science diversified: The roads less travelled to research careers
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Science diversified: Queer perspectives on research
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Science diversified: The men who say no to manels
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Science Diversified: Cosmopolitan campus
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Science Diversified: Starting young
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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The postdoc career journeys that date back to kindergarten
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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A kinder research culture is not a panacea
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Planning a postdoc before moving to industry? Think again
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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The career costs of COVID-19: how postdocs and PhD students are paying the price
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Stop the postdoc treadmill … I want to get off
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Why life as a postdoc is like a circling plane at LaGuardia Airport
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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How to craft and communicate a simple science story
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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How to sell your public outreach ideas to funders
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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How films and festivals can showcase your science
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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How to transition from the lab to full-time science communicator
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Coronavirus conversations: Science communication during a pandemic
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May 28, 2020 |
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Science communication made simple
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May 20, 2020 |
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How the academic paper is evolving in the 21st century
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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How to get media coverage for your research
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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How to bounce back from a bruising peer-review or paper rejection
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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How to write a top-notch paper
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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How apartheid's legacy can still cast a shadow over doctoral education in South Africa
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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The PhD thesis and how to boost its impact
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Team PhD
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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It's time to fix the "one size fits all" PhD
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Too many PhDs, too few research positions
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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My courtroom battles to halt illegal peatland fires in Indonesia
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Working Scientist: The award-winning neuroscientist who blazes a trail for open hardware
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Working Scientist podcast: How to inspire young women to consider scientific careerssode
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Start looking for jobs before you finish your PhD
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Switching scientific disciplines
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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The school physics talk that proved more popular than Lady Gaga's boots
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Career transitions from physics to data science
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Global career moves, and how to survive them
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Why physics is still a man's world, and how to change it
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Talking about a technological revolution in the lab
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May 09, 2019 |
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Slack, and other technologies that are transforming lab life
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May 01, 2019 |
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How technology can help solve science's reproducibility crisis
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Science and government, Canadian style
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Love science, loathe coding? Research software engineers to the rescue
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Learn to code to boost your research career
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Why universities are failing to embrace AI
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Challenges and opportunities for materials researchers in China
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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The grant funding lottery and how to fix it
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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How to beat research funding's boom and bust cycle
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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How to navigate the UK's new research funding landscape
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Grant application essentials
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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How to plan a successful grant application
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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Inside the NIH grant review process
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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Salary and job satisfaction in science: voices from the front line
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Women in physics, women in Africa
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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A winning team of innovators who promote women in science
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Lean PhD programmes, and a conversation with Lego Grad Student
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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With a PhD you can do anything
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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Another country, and how to fit in
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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How to track the "lost generation" of scientists
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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How to run a creative and diverse PhD programme
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Curating the careers of India's women scientists
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Science, sickness and dyslexia
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May 03, 2018 |
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How to be a consummate networker
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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Stars of the yeast
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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Family life, career life: Making it work
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Job satisfaction and transferable skills
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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Meaningful mentoring
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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Life in the PhD lane
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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Flexibility and forward planning
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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Companies on campus
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Oct 15, 2014 |