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Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist

Posted by , on 5 March 2012

I recently saw a documentary about graduate students called Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist (available to watch here). It’s hour long movie follows several PhD students from Lawrence ...

A Career in Science Management

Posted by , on 13 February 2012

Last June, Eva summarised the Node’s alternative careers stories, personal accounts of how scientists made their transitions from research into various alternative career paths. As a friend of Andrea Hutterer, ...

PhD student position at the British Heart Foundation Regenerative Medicine Laboratory

Posted by , on 26 January 2012

  EU Initial Training Network searches for 1 PhD Student CardioNeT – Our Initial Training Network in Cardiovascular Research offers 1 PhD student position at the British Heart Foundation Regenerative ...

PhD Programme in Human Biology, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Posted by , on 23 December 2011

The University of Tsukuba, Japan is offering fully-funded PhD studentships to do research in Japan. They have close ties with many international universities, including the University of Edinburgh. Joint projects ...

Parenting in Science

Posted by , on 31 October 2011

After the interview with Ottoline Leyser was posted last week, a discussion on Twitter focussed on the last part of the interview, about parenting. That interview question referred to a ...

Phd Places fully funded Syracuse University Biology Department

Posted by , on 30 September 2011

Fully Funded PhD Places available in Developmental Biology and Neuroscience Syracuse University, New York, USA. Interneuron specification in the zebrafish spinal cord. The Lewis Lab recently moved to Syracuse University ...

The profession that isn't

Posted by , on 10 September 2011

This post was my contribution to Science is Vital’s latest campaign on science careers. If you haven’t done so yet, I warmly encourage to get involved with the movement. THE ...

An Informative Career Day at The EMBO Meeting in Vienna

Posted by , on 10 September 2011

What shall I do, and once decided, how can I get my dream job after completing my PhD or postdoc, especially if I don’t want to become a group leader? ...

Leaving the lab: career development for developmental biologists

Posted by , on 6 September 2011

Over the past months, we’ve heard from several people who left research for a career away from the bench. Now, a summary of all these posts appears in Development, followed ...

Post-doc position: Canada

Posted by , on 28 July 2011

I currently have an opening in my research group for a post-doc to investigate the development of the vertebrate skeleton.  Our lab studies the development of the neural crest derived ...

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