“Alternative” careers. When did that become a phrase indicating a lack of commitment to a research career? If you want…
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On May 7, 2015, voters in the United Kingdom (UK) went to the polls for the 2015 General Election. The…
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I have written before about the crisis in biomedical research that has been increasingly discussed since the publication of “Rescuing…
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While the world watched the European Space Agency place the Philae probe from the Rosetta orbiter on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the…
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The opinions presented in this piece represent the authors’ opinions and do not reflect either COMPASS or ASCB official opinions.…
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Attendees of the 2015 National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) meeting at the University of Maryland in Baltimore noted something different compared…
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Let’s get the obvious out of the way. The academic research system is broken, particularly for young scientists like us…
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Inmate-college students at San Quentin Prison will soon have microscopes for their biology lab through an ASCB Outreach Grant, offered by…
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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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The USA Science and Engineering Festival is more than a science fair on steroids, it is a whole different level…
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