Working Scientist is the Nature Careers podcast. It is produced by Nature Research, publishers of the international science journal Nature.
Lego Grad Student is the alter ego of an early career researcher whose schadenfreude-laden Twitter posts "capture an adult's distress in adult education." He tells Jack Leeming how a childhood love of Lego was reignited after a painful dissertation catch-up…
UK careers consultant Sarah Blackford describes how a "SWOT analysis" of your skills can identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in your career roadmap.
Career mobility is a fact of life in science and there are plenty of opportunities to study and work abroad. Andrew Spencer, a workplace trainer based in the UK, describes some of the cultural differences and hierarchies you may face…
In this podcast Bourguignon and two of his fellow panel members tell Julie Gould how better career tracking data from universities and other institutions would show how few achieve staff positions, challenging the perception that academia is the only worthwhile…
In May this year I spoke at the 2018 ORPHEUS meeting about the diversity in PhD training. Whilst I was there, I thought I might use my time wisely, and created a podcast about the event for Naturejobs. Here is…
Patriarchy, leaky pipelines, and the “two body problem” In the June 2018 Naturejobs podcast we focus on women in science. Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj tell Harini Barath about Life of Science, the website they created to celebrate female scientists…
People don't need to let sickness and dyslexia stand in their way of doing science. Julia Hubbard, a research fellow at the Francis Crick Institute in London, has Type 1 diabetes and lupus. Collin Diedrich, postdoctoral research fellow in HIV/TB co-infection…
Networking can have benefits at any stage of your career, say Peter Fiske and Alaina Levine. There’s nothing sleazy about networking and it’s not just something to do at conferences, according to careers consultant Alaina G Levine. It is a two-way…
If you’re not loving what you do, try something new. That’s the message both from Ricardo Wilches and Eyal Schwartz. The two researchers swapped academia for careers that combine their love of science with their love of bread (in Eyal’s case) and wine…
Transitioning from academia to industry is a common direction for a career move. But it is possible to move the other way, even as a mother of five children? In this podcast we share Paula Littlejohns’ story. Paula started her microbiology…
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