Short-term upheaval can yield widespread collaborations and long-term resources. Mobility: A strategic move is a feature article in Nature Careers about how being mobile during your early career as a science researcher can benefit you in the longer term. Many…
A microbiologist dispenses career advice for his postdocs, but they had better bring their own funding. Roberto Kolter has been hiring postdocs for 3 decades. In that time, he's seen which postdocs do well and which don't. With the way…
Charles Michener shares his passion for bees in this Q&A, as well as how he's seen the research field and the bee population change over the last 80 years. As part of this week's Nature Outlook supplement on bees I…
Core facilities: Shared support is an insight into what core facilities are and how they run. As the traditional academic career track is becoming more and more difficult to pursue, this article gives researchers an alternative science research-related career path that…
My first piece for Nature Careers, Mental health: Stressed students reach out for help, explores how graduate students struggling with the stresses of their work and lives can tap into multiple avenues of support. These avenues include those grass-roots initiatives set…
For the Haemophilia supplement produced by the Nature Outlook team at NPG, I wrote a feature piece about gene therapy for haemophilia A and the challenges that scientists are having to create one. Gene therapy: Genie in a vector describes clinical trials…
YAY - yesterday my first article for BBC News online was published! I thought it was a great story, and so it also features in this weeks' Science in Action (which I produced!) and is first broadcast today at 18:32…
Magazine feature, published online September 6th 2013 As the financial crisis in Europe continues, could Bitcoin be the solution to our economic woes? Before pounds and dollars, you could use solid gold in exchange for goods. There was a limited…
Originally posted on BBC News online (Science), September 6th 2013 Scientists have come up with a better way to make silver nanoparticles, which are used in textiles and cosmetics. The tiny metallic particles are often used because of their anti-bacterial…
Originally posted on BBC News online (Health), September 2nd 2013 The origins of human tuberculosis have been traced back to hunter-gatherer groups in Africa 70,000 years ago, an international team of scientists say. The research goes against common belief that…