As an academic planning for maternity leave, I wish I had more guidance

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Now expecting her third child, this professor’s previous experience is helping her strategically prepare for her leave

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Want other scientists to cite you? Drop the jargon

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New study highlights a pitfall of overly specialized language

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Academia is often a family business. That’s a barrier for increasing diversity

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Faculty are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. than the general population

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After falling in love, I reimagined my career path—for the better

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With his partner reluctant to move, this scientist began to explore nonacademic career options

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Prey tell, what makes a publisher predatory?

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The answer is more complicated than you might expect, our Experimental Error columnist writes

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Daunting but doable: Job searching after a postdoc

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The ideal time to launch a career search is on day one of your postdoc. Fear not, here are some tips if it didn’t happen. Plus, is there such a thing as a “postdoc trap”?

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