Fantastic academic jobs and how to find them 🪄

At preLights, the preprint highlighting service run by early-career researchers, we recently launched ‘spotLights’: a podcast series where we delve deeper into exciting preprints, featuring interviews with the scientists behind the research. These conversations allow you to hear the stories, challenges, and motivations that go into producing impactful scientific work. All episodes so far can be found here.

In episode three of spotLights, we explore a topic that’s highly relevant for early-career researchers: An updated and expanded characterization of the biological sciences academic job market. If you’re on the academic job hunt or thinking about your next steps in academia, this episode is full of valuable insights!

It goes beyond the accompanying preLight post that describes the key findings. You’ll get the chance to hear from two of the preprint authors, Dr Nafisa Jadavji and Dr Chris Smith, who share the background, process, and motivations behind their study. Don’t miss out on this insightful discussion! Tune in now and get the inside scoop directly from the experts.

Note: spotLights episodes 1 and 2 both revolve around preprinted work that describes the cephalic furrow as a “crumble zone” between head and trunk tissues (see related preLight post). Episode 1 features Bruno Vellutini, the first author of the preprint “Patterned embryonic invagination evolved in response to mechanical instability.” Episode 2 highlights the work led by Bipasha Dey, Verena Kaul, and Girish Kale, resulting in the preprint “Divergent evolutionary strategies preempt tissue collision in fly gastrulation.”

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