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Why don’t they tell Postdocs this Stuff? - Secrets to a Successful Science Career

Posted by , on 10 December 2013

Some scientists would say that postdoctoral fellows have the most desirable position in the lab. As a postdoc, you have the research experience from your PhD to give you credibility ...

Conflicts of Interest

Posted by , on 28 October 2013

‘‘None of the scientists would comment on the record, for fear that it would affect their funding or that of their postdocs and graduate students’’ Nature, September 2012 ‘Is science ...

Bioscience Futures - enrich your career!

Posted by , on 31 August 2013

“If you’re looking for some really high quality career workshops specifically designed for doctoral and postdoctoral bioscientists then the Society for Experimental Biology’s new Bioscience Futures series could be just ...

Where scientists fear to tread

Posted by , on 22 August 2013

I have recently returned from a spate of international conferences that afforded me the opportunity to experience meetings for the first time as an editor, instead of as an active ...

Novartis China is Seeking for a Developmental Biology Investigator

Posted by , on 22 August 2013

Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) is a world leader in pharmaceutical research with a widely recognized culture for nurturing innovation and scientific excellence to address unmet medical needs. China ...

PhD scholarship at UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Posted by , on 2 August 2013

  Developmental and Regenerative Dermatology Unit School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia   PhD Scholarship The Developmental and Regenerative Dermatology Unit is seeking a highly ...

Distant Developments: In conversation with Professor Stephen Robertson, clinical geneticist and developmental biology researcher

Posted by , on 15 July 2013

“We have the ability to understand human disease and deliver it back to the clinic – allowing families to understand and then move on.”  This week, I caught up with ...

There and back again...

Posted by , on 26 June 2013

We’ve all heard the aphorism that once you leave academia, you can’t go back. A little over two years ago, I wrote about my transition from academic research to scientific ...

Bullying in the lab

Posted by , on 14 May 2013

The lab can be one of the greatest places in the world to make live long friends. Spending countless hours in a tissue culture room late into the middle of ...

The Post-Doctoral Treadmill

Posted by , on 11 March 2013

Like most things in life, research requires funding. This becomes increasingly apparent as researchers progress through their career. At some point, everyone has to jump on the funding treadmill. For ...

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