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Posted by the Node, on 28 September 2015
There is an increased awareness that only a small fraction of PhD students will ultimately secure a tenure-track position in academia. This has led to a discussion on whether graduate ...Posted by ama, on 27 September 2015
This week, Cambridge (UK) hosted the 10th Symposium on the Physics of Living Matter (PLM10) (http://www.plm-symposium.org/). For those of us who were at PLM1, it is surprising to see that ...Posted by Katherine Brown, on 22 September 2015
This editorial first appeared in Development. In September 2014, Development organised a four-day workshop titled ‘From Stem Cells to Human Development’. In planning this meeting, we sought to fill ...Posted by Journal of Cell Science, on 16 September 2015
This Sticky Wicket article first featured in Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here. Text translated from the Italian. I think. With ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 11 September 2015
When starting a PhD or a postdoc you are often given a list (or pile) of papers to read- the essentials to get an overview of the history and recent ...Posted by Journal of Cell Science, on 2 September 2015
This cartoon was first published in the Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here. Part I- ‘The imposter’ Part II- ‘The teaching monster’ ...Posted by Disease Models and Mechanisms, on 28 August 2015
This editorial by Olivia Flatto was first published in Disease Models & Mechanisms. Wealth is not new. Neither is charity. But the idea of using private wealth imaginatively, constructively, and systematically ...Posted by the Node, on 27 August 2015
This week the BioMedCentral blog put together a quiz to test how good you are at assessing the best course of action when faced with tricky peer review scenarios. These scenarios make for a ...Posted by Catarina Vicente, on 17 August 2015
Last month I attended the SDB annual meeting in Utah, an excellent conference that featured great scientific talks and additional educative sessions covering outreach, inclusiveness and more. I tweeted extensively from ...Posted by Journal of Cell Science, on 3 August 2015
This essay by Martin Schwartz was originally published in the Journal of Cell Science. Current issues regarding scientific ethics have focused for the most part on regulations governing research and ...