Communicating your research in plain language doesn’t diminish your work
Dementia ResearcherSpringer Nature Storytellers hosted an event at Berlin Science Week in which five researchers on the front lines of discovery shared true stories about life behind the science.
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Confused About the DIAN-TU Trial Data? Experts Discuss
Alz ForumAt the virtual AAT-AD/PD Focus meeting, clinicians and funders involved in the DIAN-TU Trial discuss results from the first DIAN-TU treatment trial
Couples & colleagues: Scientist duos marry work & home life
Nature Careers BlogYou can work successfully with a romantic partner. Meet the researchers who have cracked it. Shared from Nature Careers
Dealing with Rejection in Academia
LSE Impact BlogIn this repost from the LSE Impact Blog, Staci Zavattaro, reflects on rejection in academia and gives 6 tips on how to manage the inevitable rejections that are part of academic life.
Does Astrocyte Tau Cause Dementia?
Once again, tau creates havoc—this time by hijacking astrocytes. According to a report in Nature from Nicolas Toni at the University of Lausanne
Don’t be a prig in peer review
Jeff C. Clements reckons with a recent set of reviewer comments that used ‘being critical’ as a justification to be mean, in this article from Nature Careers.
Don’t let your academic career determine your every move
Should early career researchers be expected to relocate regularly in order to land a permanent job? In this post for the LSE Impact Blog, Eva Krockow weighs the benefits of an international career against the costs of constant mobility.
Eight career tips from Nobel Laureates
Stefano Sandrone’s Nobel Life features interviews with 24 prize winners on everything from handling rejection to seizing the moment. Shared from Nature Careers
F**k Ups in Social Research: Learning from what goes ‘wrong’
What happens when research goes wrong? How do researchers manage, or fail to manage, & can we learn from ‘failures’? This blog explains
Five keys to writing a reproducible lab protocol
Effective sharing of experimental methods is crucial to ensuring that others can repeat results – tools to help. Shared from Nature Careers.
Five reasons to do an internship during your PhD programme
Rekindle your love for problem-solving by taking your lab skills to a completely different environment, says Jessica Sagers, in this Blog for Nature Careers.
Five steps for networking during a pandemic
Here’s how to build your professional support team when you can’t meet others in person. From Zachary Turnbull & Ruth Gotian for Nature Careers.