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Empathy Comes Before Data in Talking Evolution with Doubters, Says NCSE’s Ann Reid

September 4, 2014

In Philadelphia this December, Ann Reid’s mission will be to talk to scientists about talking about the science of evolution…

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How Competitive Should Science Be?

August 29, 2014
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Duncker, Karl (1945). On Problem Solving, Psychological Monographs, 58, American Psychological Association OCLC: 9687931Intense competition in the biomedical sciences has…

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Women In Science: The Untold Downside to Achievement

August 28, 2014
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Throughout my PhD years, I have worked passionately on the issue of “Women in Science.” Becoming the president of the…

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Science, a Cause Worth Fightin’ for

August 22, 2014
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Although there may be quite a lot of science in the news lately (the Ebola scare, climate change, 2013 Merriam-Webster’s…

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Are Unpaid Postdocs the Next Trend in Biomedical Research?

August 15, 2014
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San Diego radio station KPBS reported last year that a local lab was looking for a PhD to work for…

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Nontraditional Science Careers: Consultant

August 14, 2014

The secret is out. There is life beyond the lab or the classroom for someone with a PhD in molecular…

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Know What You’re Getting into Before Grad School

August 8, 2014
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There are many reasons for wanting to go to graduate school: You want to become a professor, you love pipetting…

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Life Outside Lab? I Can Have One of Those?

August 1, 2014
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Playing a musical instrument. Ballroom dancing. Musical theater. Knitting. Painting. Woodworking. What do all of these activities have in common?…

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ASCB Rescues Federal Scientists from Capitol Hill Sausage Grinder

July 31, 2014

Making sausage and making legislation are not spectator sports but someone has to keep an eye on what’s going into…

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Lydia Villa-Komaroff Learned in the Lab “What It Might Be Like to Fly”

July 30, 2014

“I grew up in a very big family in a very small house,” says Lydia Villa-Komaroff. That house was in…

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