There are many reasons for wanting to go to graduate school: You want to become a professor, you love pipetting…
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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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“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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Will traditional publishing go the way of the printed journal? Photo by Robert Cudmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)A collaborator and I…
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In my last post, I covered the initial steps of applying for academic faculty jobs, basically preparing and submitting the application…
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Scientists can be reclusive. Not just in the “lab work all day, time course all night, cell culture all weekend”…
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The Outreach Subcommittee of the Committee for Postdocs and Students (COMPASS) announces the Share Your Science Video Contest with prizes…
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There are always times when we need some extra help in the classroom—in finding new ways to engage students or…
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Imagine a politician receiving hundreds of hand-written letters from his or her constituents all in support of a single goal—an…
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