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When women are missing from peer review
Whether and how gender affects the selection of reviewers.
Recruiting or academic poaching?
Hiring a few research stars uses up resources that might otherwise support a number of promising younger researchers.
A time limit on postdoctoral contracts: the French experience
in 2012 a new law ordered French public employers to offer stable employment to workers after 6 years of short-term contracts. It backfired.
The not-quite-stated, awful truth
For all but a small percentage of aspiring researchers, doing a postdoc at a university is a lousy idea because it will neither result in an academic job nor otherwise advance one’s career.
Pure, stupid luck
A light-hearted opinion piece about the arbitrariness of academic success.
Paradigms and prejudice
Able women who set out to make academic careers in math-intensive fields of science have as good a chance of succeeding as men today, keeping in mind that the chances don’t appear great for anyone of either gender.
Want to be a PI? What are the odds?
Algorithm based on publications finds that first-author articles in leading journals matter most.
Welche wissenschaftliche Idee ist reif für den Ruhestand?
Der amerikanische Literaturagent John Brockman stellt der Cyber-Elite jedes Jahr seine Edge-Frage. Lesen Sie an dieser Stelle eine Auswahl der jüngsten aufregenden und überraschenden Antworten.
A new funding model for scientists
What scientist hasn’t dreamed of spending less time getting funding and more time doing research?
Navigating Collaborative Grant Research
Marie and Pierre Curie, Watson and Crick, Brin and Page. Collaboration pays, so funding agencies are promoting team research. At the same time, fields that demand multidisciplinary cooperation such as translational medicine, climate science, and systems biology are on the rise.