Ambitious postdocs jostle for scant permanent posts
Poor job security a major issue in survey of chemist and physicist PhD graduates, writes Paul Jump
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Is ‘universal basic income’ a better option than research grants?
Instead of spending time competing for competitive funding, academics should be given a lump sum, paper suggests
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US anthropologists debate response to rise of Trump
Association’s annual meeting discusses teaching in ‘red’ states and need for domestic research
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Work-life balance survey 2018: long hours take their toll on academics
ߣߣÊÓƵ’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships...
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Academia and the gig economy: how to survive in the post-golden age
Academia often treats leavers as failures, but some of our smartest scholars are starting to see walking away as liberation, writes Inger Mewburn
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Split in postdoc prospects
Wide variations in the career prospects of postdoctoral researchers across disciplines suggest that two distinct research cultures continue to co-exist in universities. In the physical and biological...
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Leader: Postdoc promotion
There are good reasons why there should be more postdoctoral students on temporary contracts in the physical and biological sciences than in the arts and social sciences. Modern scientific research...
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Early career researchers: the hidden costs of interview
Covering interview travel expenses creates financial hardships for early career academics, says Rachel Yoho
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Research-intensive universities ‘offer best maternity pay’
Generous leave packages used as a strategy to retain top female researchers in elite institutions, study suggests
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A manifesto for early career researchers
Early career researchers are the ‘working class of higher education’, writes Elisabeth Julie Vargo Â
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Interview with Cristina Lo Celso
The Imperial College London stem cell biologist discusses her Italian roots, the search for a cancer cure and dealing with a crowded commute
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A Machiavellian guide to getting ahead in academia
Rogier Creemers advises early career academics to be ruthless and put themselves first to move up the ladder
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Decades of learning
We were pleased that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory and RELATE at MIT (Research in Learning, Assessing and Tutoring Effectively) were mentioned in...
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Poisonous science: the dark side of the lab
The bullying and subsequent suicide of a talented Ivy League scientist exposes ugly truths about the cruelty and dysfunction at the heart of academic science
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California postdocs win better employment terms
After 18 months of wrangling, postdoctoral researchers have finally reached an agreement with the University of California over a contract of employment that they hope will set standards for postdocs...