Teaching in the time of the coronavirus
Sir Keith Burnett is relieved to find that through online platforms, teachers can still connect with students and can give ideas life
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Postdoc parley
Twitter channel for postdocs aims to break into North America. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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10 habits for a successful postdoc
10 must-dos for postdocs identified by Catherine L Drennan, professor of chemistry and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Under compulsion: why college athletes and graduate students are like prisoners
Erin Hatton draws on an ‘odious comparison’ to illuminate the extraordinary powers coaches and supervisors can wield over their students
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Why I haven’t joined the UK’s coronavirus ‘scientific reserve’
Expecting early career researchers to help with coronavirus testing is unfair if they will suffer financial hardship, says PhD candidate Katherine MacInnes
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The postdoc experience: hopes and fears
Six early career researchers reflect on their experiences
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Interview with Michael Murphy
Observational astrophysicist opens up on why physics can be ‘unsatisfactory’ and how the coronavirus spotlights a valuable truth about our approach to climate change
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Shifting expectations about the long-hours culture
Working to the exclusion of all else is unhealthy, but a one-size-fits-all limit is hard to set when careers and reputations are on the line
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Life in the Zoomiverse: What we miss about the physical campus
Pointless meetings, fraught commutes and whiffy shared fridges are mercifully off limits during the coronavirus lockdown. But what else are faculty glad to be rid of? And what are they pining to...
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International scientists need better support during global emergencies
Being trapped in Peru as countries went into lockdown showed us just how little support is available to researchers working abroad, a group of biologists writes
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What can be done to resolve academic authorship disputes?
With careers riding on young scientists’ position in author lists, friction is all too common. A snowballing initiative to list authors’ contributions aims to make sure credit is always given where...
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Academics should stop fixating on the editorial power fallacy
Complaints about journal editors’ decisions ignore the root cause of the research assessment problem: career structure, says Richard Sever  Â
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Postdoc blues: how do you know when it is time to give up?
They think I’m a rising star, says a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford, but my hopes of a real career in science are sinking
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China a ‘challenging’ partner, says German exchange scheme head
Joybrato Mukherjee says Chinese researchers ‘not always on the same page’ over IP – and looks forward to a VR-enabled ‘entirely virtual semester abroad’
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Life with an abusive lab boss: one postdoc’s story
Why are postgraduates and postdocs so expendable and professors so untouchable, asks a geneticist subjected to a paranoid boss’ abuse