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Career Feature |
Campus surveillance: students and professors decry sensors in buildings
Privacy campaigners fear that the devices could be used for disciplinary purposes, and some universities have deactivated them after protests.
- Anne Gulland
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Nature Index |
AI could be an opportunity for research managers
The head of Europe’s main body for research-management professionals talks about the impact of artificial intelligence and the continued battle for recognition for those supporting scientists’ work.
- Simon Baker
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Editorial |
Carl Sagan’s audacious search for life on Earth has lessons for science today
The test 30 years ago of what remote sensing could tell us about our own planet shows the value of looking with unbiased eyes at what we think we already know.
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Could new ‘narrative’ CVs transform research culture?
Funders are turning to a format that probes societal impact and acknowledges contributions from non-academic colleagues.
- Dom Byrne
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Career Feature |
Postdoc career optimism rebounds after COVID in global Nature survey
Postdoctoral researchers still feel as though they are academia’s drudge labourers, but have more confidence about job prospects in a post-pandemic world.
- Linda Nordling
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Nature Careers Podcast |
How to craft a research project with non-academic collaborators
If you’re working with indigeneous researchers, citizen scientists or local communities, find out about their expectations, including ones around payment and authorship.
- Dom Byrne
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Career Feature |
Engaged in collaborative research? Try a touch of intellectual humility
Being open to the limitations of their knowledge can help researchers to foster interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations.
- Jane Palmer
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Nature Careers Podcast |
“Couldn’t cut it as a scientist.” How lab managers and technicians are smashing outdated stereotypes
Support staff should speak up more about how their skills drive scientific discovery, says glassblower Terri Adams.
- Dom Byrne
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Career Feature |
Universities axe diversity statements in wake of US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
Higher-education campaigners fear that removing the option for job applicants to provide the statements will make the academic workforce less diverse.
- Amanda Heidt
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Culture clashes: unpicking the power dynamics between research managers and academics
Some researchers thank admin colleagues with chocolates or wine. But deadline pressures, and the need to generate research income, can sometimes result in bullying.
- Dom Byrne
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Career News |
Proposed law could protect academic freedom across Europe
Some European governments are tightening their political grip on universities, sparking calls for action.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Career Feature |
US postdocs on strike: how will demands for higher wages be met?
Cost-of-living pressures, a dismal job market and stagnant US federal budgets are leaving lab leaders scrambling to balance the books.
- Amanda Heidt
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Career Column |
Why Juneteenth matters for science
In the light of US court rulings on racism in science and affirmative action in higher education, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans is ever more important.
- Antentor O. Hinton
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News |
Legacy of racist US housing policies extends even to bird data
A discriminatory strategy called redlining, which was implemented in the 1930s, has repercussions today for records of urban biodiversity.
- Anil Oza
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Nature Index |
Global leaders in science’s battle against cancer
A look at the key research institutions, funders and collaborations that are driving the field forward.
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Career Column |
How a lupus diagnosis taught me that resilience in science is a double-edged sword
The ability to persevere through hardship is celebrated in research, but a ‘one size fits all’ approach can perpetuate inequalities, says Caitlin Aamodt.
- Caitlin Aamodt
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World View |
Predatory journals entrap unsuspecting scientists. Here’s how universities can support researchers
Training from institutions on publishing norms could help to thwart predatory publishers.
- Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
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Nature Index |
China sees renewed surge in natural sciences
After a dip during the pandemic, the country has boosted and broadened its high-quality research output.
- Simon Baker
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Career Feature |
Is it time for tenure to evolve?
After a spate of high-profile tenure denials, US academics are rethinking how this beleaguered academic process can be made more fair.
- Amber Dance
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Career Column |
UK research assessment is being reformed — but the changes miss the mark
A shift from individual to institutional performance in the next Research Excellence Framework exercise is welcome, but ignores the realities of academia.
- Richard Watermeyer
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News |
What the Stanford president’s resignation can teach lab leaders
Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s departure makes overworked researchers ponder: how do we prevent misconduct in our own labs?
- Max Kozlov
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Nature Careers Podcast |
Sexual harassment in science: tackling abusers, protecting targets, changing cultures
Sarah Batterman describes the personal and professional toll after being targeted at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Its director Josh Tewkesbury describes changes after staff spoke out.
- Adam Levy
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Book Review |
Science’s gender gap: the shocking data that reveal its true extent
Analysis of which researchers publish, get credit, move around, get funding, collaborate and receive citations shows how deeply ingrained the bias against women is.
- Virginia Valian
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Editorial |
US Supreme Court on affirmative action: a bitter blow to educational inclusion
The highest US court’s decision that race cannot be considered in university admissions risks rolling back what little progress has been made on racial equity in the sector.
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News |
US to end race-based university admissions: what now for diversity in science?
Researchers talk to Nature about how halting race-conscious admissions will affect STEM employment, university applications and more.
- Helen Santoro
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Career Column |
Don’t get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science
Subtle forms of misogyny attack female leadership and coerce women to conform to conventional gender norms. It’s time to call out these behaviours, say Alison Bentley and Rachael Garrett.
- Alison Bentley
- & Rachael Garrett
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Career News |
Universities urged to improve how staff sexual-assault claims are handled
Early-career researchers are often poorly served when they come forward, says the author of a report investigating the response to #MeToo at UK institutions.
- Anne Gulland
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Editorial |
More carrot, less stick: how to make research assessments fairer
Research-assessment exercises are often misused to judge researchers or cut their funding — changes to the United Kingdom’s scheme are a promising start.
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Nature Index |
Nature Index Annual Tables 2023: China tops natural-science table
India is another notable riser whereas Russia is among those losing ground.
- Chris Woolston
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Nature Index |
Nature Index Annual Tables 2023: first health-science ranking reveals big US lead
The Netherlands punches above its weight in the country list, and a Canadian institution demonstrates the strength of its clinical collaborations.
- Bianca Nogrady
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News |
Prized dinosaur fossil returned to Brazil after controversy
The one-of-a-kind specimen will be housed at a museum in Santana do Cariri, near where it was found.
- Meghie Rodrigues
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News |
NIH to intensify scrutiny of foreign grant recipients in wake of COVID origins debate
Researchers speak out over US biomedical agency’s new funding policy.
- Max Kozlov
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Career News |
Are you a postdoc working in academia or industry? Share your career experiences with Nature
Our second global survey of postdoctoral researchers is now live, with new questions to reflect seismic changes to the world of work since 2020.
- David Payne
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News |
Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.
- Max Kozlov
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Editorial |
Encourage whistle-blowing: how universities can help to resolve research’s mental-health crisis
Low pay, job insecurity, bullying and harassment all contribute to academic researchers reporting above-average levels of anxiety and depression. Institutions can improve working environments by looking at best practice elsewhere.
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News Feature |
A mental-health crisis is gripping science — toxic research culture is to blame
With researchers reporting high rates of anxiety and depression, calls are growing to fundamentally change science before it’s too late.
- Shannon Hall
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Editorial |
Research assessment exercises are necessary — but we need to learn to do them better
Australia is overhauling its research evaluation system — an opportunity for it, and other countries, to review what makes a system work for everyone.
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News |
Four challenges facing Biden’s nominee for NIH director
If confirmed, Monica Bertagnolli will grapple with congressional investigations, threats to funding, diversity issues and public distrust of science.
- Max Kozlov
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News |
Prized dinosaur fossil will finally be returned to Brazil
Following theft accusations, a German museum is set to hand over a one-of-a-kind dinosaur specimen with feather-like structures.
- Meghie Rodrigues
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News |
Turkey’s landmark election: researchers urge winner to abolish university council
Opposition alliance agrees it’s time for military-era council to go. Governing party silent on calls to axe body with the power to hire and fire academics.
- Miryam Naddaf
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News |
Canadian PhD students and postgrads plan mass walkout over low pay
Academics are demanding a significant boost to government-sponsored fellowships and scholarships, which haven’t changed for decades.
- Brian Owens
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Career News |
University of Oxford bans intimate relations between students and staff
UK institution joins many universities worldwide in enacting policies to protect students’ rights and prevent power abuses.
- Nicola Jones
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Editorial |
Why Nature is updating its advice to authors on reporting race or ethnicity
Nature’s updated advice is a small step towards ensuring that research does not inadvertently end up harming under-represented groups.
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News |
India opens its doors to first foreign universities
India is aiming to boost research through international recognition of qualifications and welcoming foreign universities.
- Dyani Lewis
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Career News |
Academics fight moves to defund diversity programmes at US universities
Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida wage war on ‘woke’ projects, with other US states threatening similar clampdowns.
- Virginia Gewin
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News |
China Initiative’s shadow looms large for US scientists
Anti-Asian scrutiny has only intensified since the controversial programme ended one year ago, researchers say.
- Natasha Gilbert
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News |
Exclusive: Documents raise questions about UCLA’s suspension of ecologist
A committee found that Priyanga Amarasekare broke rules after she alleged discrimination by colleagues. It recommended light sanctions — but the university chancellor issued stronger ones.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Editorial |
Rebuilding Ukrainian science can’t wait — here’s how to start
International support has rightly focused on researchers who have been forced to flee. Ukraine’s devastated research infrastructure needs assistance, too.
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Correspondence |
Mastodon: a move to publicly owned scholarly knowledge
- Björn Brembs
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