Global career moves, and how to survive them
Moving abroad is a fact of life for many scientists. Astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker offers some advice.
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1 August 2019
Working Scientist is the Nature Careers podcast. It is produced by Nature Research, publishers of the international science journal Nature.
Why physics is still a man’s world, and how to change it
Julie Gould hears how a technical university in the Netherlands took radical measures to boost the number of female academics.
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24 July 2019
Talking about a technological revolution in the lab
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01499-7
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9 May 2019
Slack, and other technologies that are transforming lab life
Ben Britton says the online collaboration and communication tool has changed his lab for the better.
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1 May 2019
How technology can help solve science’s reproducibility crisis
Machine learning and data management skills can raise your scientific profile and open up career opportunities, Julie Gould discovers.
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25 April 2019
Science and government, Canadian Style
Mona Nemer tells Julie Gould about her role as Canada's chief scientific adviser and how she aims to strengthen science in the country.
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24 April 2019
Learn to code to boost your research career
Learning how to code brings career benefits and helps science by aiding reproducibility, Julie Gould discovers.
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11 April 2019
Why universities are failing to embrace AI
Mark Dodgson and Lee Cronin discuss the revolutionary potential of artificial intelligence on university teaching, research, and scientific careers.
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3 April 2019
Love science, loathe coding? Research software engineers to the rescue
Simon Hettrick tells Julie Gould about the role of research software engineers, what they do and how you can become one.
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1 April 2019
The grant funding lottery and how to fix it
Many grant funding decisions are random, with luck playing a large part. How can the system be improved, particularly when funds are tight?
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9 February 2019