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Career Q&A |
Harmony on the farm: integrating crops, trees, goats and bees
Farmer and environmentalist Joshua Zake shares what he has learnt about advances in sustainable agriculture with small-scale farmers.
- Christopher Bendana
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Career Q&A |
Supporting children’s health in rural Uganda
Paediatric-health researcher Mary Nyantaro wants more investment in and mentoring for the research workforce.
- Christopher Bendana
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Nature Index |
Why I wrote a children’s book about nanoscience
Inspiring the next generation can help to tackle nano-phobia.
- Jess Wade
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Career Feature |
Bullied abroad: how foreign researchers can fight back
Most international scholars do not report experiences of bullying because they fear retaliation, including threats to cancel visas. But they can take action.
- Nic Fleming
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Career Feature |
Underpaid and overworked: researchers abroad fall prey to bullying
Nature investigates multiple instances of scholars on working visas experiencing abuse and salary discrimination.
- Nic Fleming
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Correspondence |
Decarbonize pedagogy — apply sustainable development goals
- Paul G. Leahy
- & Benjamin K. Sovacool
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News |
Chile proposes new constitution steeped in science
Although many researchers support the draft, opposition could sink it.
- Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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Career Feature |
Do two PhDs make twice the researcher?
Some scientists earn two PhD degrees to expand their skills, cross fields or create a niche research programme.
- Virginia Gewin
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News & Views |
From the archive: library design and London’s Bloomsbury district
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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News & Views |
From the archive: freezing food, and science for medical students
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Career Column |
Teaching a difficult subject? Try gamifying your class
Statistics isn’t a game, but teaching it can be. Mai P. Trinh explains how she uses video-game elements to reach her master’s students.
- Mai P. Trinh
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Career Feature |
How to bounce back from a PhD-project failure
Science is riddled with stories of getting scooped, data glitches and funding crises. Five researchers share stories of how they rallied.
- Nikki Forrester
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Career News |
UK graduate students demand pay rise from nation’s largest research funder
UKRI’s proposed stipend increase for 2022–23 falls far short of rise in UK cost of living.
- Chris Woolston
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News |
How police reforms improved the way officers treat women in India
Largest-ever trial of police responses finds stations with women’s help desks record more intimate-partner crimes.
- Gayathri Vaidyanathan
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Career News |
Share your experiences of graduate-student life with Nature
The world has changed a lot since our last global survey of PhD students in 2019. This year’s survey includes master’s students for the first time.
- Chris Woolston
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Career Q&A |
Carving a path for Pakistani children to pursue science careers
Lalah Rukh talks about the joys — and challenges — of nurturing young learners’ passion for science subjects.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
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News |
Education evidence, new-physics hunt — the week in infographics
Nature highlights three key graphics from the week in science and research.
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Nature Podcast |
Coronapod: ‘A generational loss’ — COVID’s devastating impact on education
How research could help reclaim months of lost education for billions of school students around the world.
- Noah Baker
- & Helen Pearson
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Editorial |
Schools need research to guide the recovery from COVID disruption
Evidence from around the world can help children to catch up, and could improve education as a whole.
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News Feature |
COVID derailed learning for 1.6 billion students. Here’s how schools can help them catch up
The pandemic is the largest disruption to education in history. But research has identified ways to help children make up lost ground. Will they work in classrooms around the world?
- Helen Pearson
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Career Feature |
Showcasing Africa’s contributions to science
Success stories challenge negative narratives and media portrayals, and can inspire the next generation.
- Kendall Powell
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Career Feature |
First-in-family scholars bust generational barriers
First-generation students face challenges navigating graduate school. How can institutions better support them?
- Nikki Forrester
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World View |
University culture wars over race theory recall 1920s fight to teach evolution
Arguments for quality work better than quibbles over facts.
- Adam Laats
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Research Highlight |
Girls’ maths scores drop if classmates’ parents have biased views
Data from Chinese schools show that gender-based stereotypes of maths ability pass from parents to children — and from those children to others.
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Editorial |
Afghanistan’s girls’ schools can — and must — stay open. There is no alternative
The Taliban have broken a promise and betrayed a generation.
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Correspondence |
Liberal-arts education helps scientists think and communicate
- Scott M. Williams
- & James A. Foster
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Career Feature |
How PhD programmes embraced hybrid working during the pandemic
After two years of COVID-related delays, five doctoral candidates share lessons they learnt.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Career Q&A |
TikTok for physics: influencers aim to spark interest in science
The UK Institute of Physics has turned to young social-media stars to get more schoolchildren excited about the subject.
- Jacqui Thornton
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Career Q&A |
The Venezuelan scientist who was forced to flee hyperinflation
Ecologist Eulogio Chacón Moreno sought fellowships abroad amid a worsening economic crisis in his home country.
- Virginia Gewin
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Career Column |
From soldier to scientist
Before her own career change, Nell Pates helped wounded soldiers to prepare for civilian jobs. Her military training still comes in handy.
- Nell Pates
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News |
Massive strikes at UK universities over ‘unsustainable’ working conditions
A dispute prompted by pensions cuts now encompasses pay, job security and workloads exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Career Column |
How I navigated my way through a midlife PhD
Roger Tipton was approaching 50 when he made a bold career move. Here’s what he learnt.
- Roger Tipton
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News & Views |
From the archive
Nature’s pages feature changes in the number of topics a science lecturer might cover, and official rules about who can be called a chemist.
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Editorial |
Researchers at risk in Afghanistan need better tools to find help
Many organizations are ready to help threatened scholars and professionals — but those in peril often struggle to locate them.
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News |
Sleeplessness and anxiety: PhD supervisors on toll of COVID pandemic
Survey of 3,500 supervisors lifts the lid on the demands of overseeing junior researchers — and the impacts of the pandemic.
- Holly Else
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News & Views |
From the archive
Nature’s pages feature a textbook that takes a new approach for covering science, and an obituary of Charles Babbage.
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How the pandemic widened scientists' mentoring networks
Virtual meetings enabled researchers to look beyond departments, institutions and sectors for career support, Julie Gould discovers.
- Julie Gould
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Career Feature |
How three refugee scientists kept their research hopes alive
Two organizations that support at-risk academics offered funding, fellowship and language support at a critical time.
- Virginia Gewin
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Career Column |
Eight career tips from Nobel Laureates
Stefano Sandrone’s Nobel Life features interviews with 24 prizewinners on everything from handling rejection to seizing the moment.
- Stefano Sandrone
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Career Column |
A model for diversifying faculty recruitment
When junior researchers Kyle Thomas and Karena Nguyen joined a search committee, they came up with a way to put equity and inclusion centre stage.
- Kyle Thomas
- & Karena Nguyen
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Career Column |
Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers
For objective careers advice, talk to those who left science as well as those who stayed.
- Dave Hemprich-Bennett
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- & Emma Kennedy
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Career Column |
Stop undervaluing smaller institutions
Far from being inferior, smaller universities can outstrip elite ones in research training and promoting inclusivity.
- Daphne S. Ling
- & Kim M. Gerecke
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Editorial |
The global research community must not abandon Afghanistan
Here’s how Afghanistan’s scholars can be supported.
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News |
Afghanistan’s terrified scientists predict huge research losses
For 20 years, science has blossomed in Afghanistan. Now many researchers are fleeing and those who remain face lost funding and the threat of persecution.
- Smriti Mallapaty