ICYMI: Advice from @nature.com on how to handle multi-stage interviews required for science industry positions. (Hint: It's an obstacle course showcasing different skills!). Reporting by @sarahemilywild.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My job interviews for industry positions are going nowhere. How do I make myself stand out?

A postdoc researcher trying to move into an industry role wants help gaining traction and making it past the first interview stage.

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I love a story about a researcher who is a force for good: @nature.com's Working Scientist profile of Mary Gray, statistician, mathematician and lawyer. As told to Rachel Crowell. How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses

Some 50 years after exposing gender discrimination in US academics’ retirement benefits, Mary Gray works as a statistician and social-justice campaigner.

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This @nature.com Q&A with Ryan Rising covers his own journey – and his work to help others – to get a PhD after being incarcerated. So easy to take for granted the raw power of higher education. As told to @virginiagewin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I want to see a prison-to-PhD pipeline

Ryan Rising creates programmes that help people who have been incarcerated to access academic opportunities.

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Here's a use for AI that even skeptics like myself can get behind: Deploying AI tools to practice for the tough and necessary convos and scenarios that PhD training requires. How AI can crack open the ‘hidden curriculum’ for neurodivergent students www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How AI can crack open the ‘hidden curriculum’ for neurodivergent students

Marisa Chrysochoou and Keivan Stassun argue that AI tools could help students to navigate academia’s unwritten rules.

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Work in science? In need of a 15-minute procrastination break and want to help the @nature.com's Careers team focus their coverage on what's most important to you and your next career move? Take the 2026 Science Job Satisfaction Survey: survey.walr.com/VJoPga?lnt=1 ​

Need a 15-min procrastination break? Take @nature.com's Science Job Satisfaction Survey and tell us what you love (and loathe) about your job as a working scientist. It's anonymous and you could win a $250 Amazon voucher.) Take it here: survey.walr.com/VJoPga?lnt=1

ICYMI: Please tell @nature.com about your life as a working scientist! It really does only take 15 minutes and you could enter to win a $250 Amazon voucher (or local equivalent). Share the highs and lows of your career in science: take Nature’s global survey www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Share the highs and lows of your career in science: take Nature’s global survey

Science and society are undergoing rapid change. Nature wants to know how this is affecting careers, workplace culture and salaries.

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Sometimes a #PhD project brings you fun you didn't know you were missing like a poison frog dad riding a robotic tadpole like a miniature rodeo star. @bcgoolsby.bsky.social shares how she cracks the code on frog communications. As told to @inkfish.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How I eavesdrop on frog conversations

Billie Goolsby’s experience with hearing loss helped her to develop a robotic tadpole for deciphering the secret lives of amphibians.

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In this @nature.com QA, cognitive scientist Félix Schoeller explains how a creative use of AI might help better train human facilitators for psychedelic drug therapy and clinical trials. As told to @robinberghaus.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How we’re using AI tools to improve psychedelic-drug research

Félix Schoeller’s team built a realistic artificial-intelligence chatbot to train facilitators needed for research into psychoactive drugs — and, ultimately, to improve public health.

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In the latest "Dear @nature.com" advice column: A non-fluent English speaker seeks advice on how to improve his writing for academic publishing without paying for expensive editing services. Experts weigh in with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My English skills are hurting my chances in academic publishing — how can I improve?

A non-fluent English speaker struggles to navigate language barriers in academic publishing.

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The headline says it all. Reporting by @virginiagewin.bsky.social brings you some of the daily joys of a career in science from researchers around the world. Best. Day. Ever. What does a good day in science look like? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Best. Day. Ever. What does a good day in science look like?

Struggling to remember why you picked a career in science? Here are some heart-warming tales to jog your memory.

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In the least surprising headlines category, a new report from @scattercushion.bsky.social on two large US faculty surveys about mental health. Read on for the ways faculty (and employers) can mitigate anxiety. US faculty members report high levels of anxiety www.nature.com/articles/d41...

US faculty members report high levels of anxiety

Surveys show the importance of social, familial and structural support in lowering anxiety, particularly for people in health professions.

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Cell biologist Mark Terasaki's gift of $25M is the largest personal donation to the @mblscience.bsky.social. Hear how such gifts might keep US research afloat, as told to @marissa-russo.bsky.social Keeping the ‘fairy tale’ of the Marine Biological Laboratory alive www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Keeping the ‘fairy tale’ of the Marine Biological Laboratory alive

Cell biologist Mark Terasaki will give US$25 million of his own money to preserve the legacy of a pioneering scientific institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

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Help a @nature.com Careers reporter out? Looking for ways that you might 'upgrade' your lab group's regular meeting. Have any fun or recurring agenda items, ice breakers or group bonding traditions? Anything that livens it up? Contact Hannah @keepitonthehdl.bsky.social directly if so, thx!

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Do you have any lab meeting "upgrades": traditions or recurring agenda items that help liven up the meeting, build skills, or just help members bond? I'm working on an article for Nature Careers @nature.com and want to hear from you! Contact form in bio (cc @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social)

Are you coming up for tenure review in the next couple of years? See the @nature.com Careers team's advice for assembling a kick-ass tenure portfolio. Reporting by @scattercushion.bsky.social A step-by-step guide to nailing your tenure promotion package www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A step-by-step guide to nailing your tenure promotion package

It’s an important milestone in many academic careers, yet the tenure process is surprisingly nebulous. Here’s what it takes to succeed.

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Fantastic piece on the research support specialists who are the 'stagehands' of science - their names rarely 'in lights', but they make research work from behind the scenes. Great reporting by @shihabjamal.bsky.social How hidden contributions power modern research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How hidden contributions power modern research

The people who work behind the scenes to keep research moving say that there should be more recognition for their roles.

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In the last piece on @nature.com's 2025 Global PhD Survey, we give you great PhD supervisors and the kind, supportive and career-boosting things they did for their students. Yes! A feel-good read about PhDs from @lindanordling.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered

PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance.

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In the midst of all the world events, it's nice to have a piece like this in @nature.com on scientists who write lyrical, moving poetry. Many thx to @josiegz.bsky.social for the wonderful pitch & piece. Engaging the head and the heart: why scientists turn to poetry www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Engaging the head and the heart: why scientists turn to poetry

Some researchers use verse to visualize complex problems or translate the wonders of science for wider audiences.

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What does it mean to bring Indigenous knowledge to bear on scientific studies? Anne Poelina explains in this #WorkingScientist profile @nature.com. She made the river she studies a co-author on publications as a source of her expertise. By @ljevanso.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why I made a river my co-author

Anne Poelina gives first authorship to a source with deep knowledge about water — the river itself.

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ICYMI: Excellent @nature.com Q&A with Ando Rabearisoa about why she took an 11-year break in her PhD studies to help establish locally managed marine conservation areas in #Madagascar. As told to Mark DeGraff. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I paused my PhD for 11 years to help save Madagascar’s seas

Marine scientist Ando Rabearisoa creates sustainable, community-managed fisheries.

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(Oh, how I identified with this illo when I was a PhD student.) How should PI's teach perseverance when their grad students are stuck – without swooping in to rescue them? Next in the Dear @nature.com series. Reporting by @mnicolen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My PhD student is stuck. How do I teach them perseverance and problem solving?

A new principal investigator wants to help PhD students to develop resilience and creativity in the laboratory without hovering or doing the work for them.

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How and why to filter men out of your data Did you know that women are significantly more likely to suffer severe side effects from cancer treatments? Disaggregating data by sex reveals life-saving differences and improves health care for – wait for it – everyone. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Uncharted: Understanding women’s health across the body

Disaggregating data by sex is a powerful way to help develop better diagnostics and treatments for women — but researchers say it’s not used enough.

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Might be my fave piece that I've edited so far this year! It was a pleasure to work through how best to present all the various missing pieces and evidence gaps in #menopause science with @lindanordling.bsky.social Plus fantastic art by Maria Corte. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The missing pieces of menopause science

Hormone therapy is back after decades in the shadows. But evidence gaps remain for treating perimenopause — often the most disruptive part of the menopause transition.

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Leading in science as a woman doesn't mean smooth sailing through gender bias, unfortunately, writes @mangalasrinivas.bsky.social @nature.com. She gives practical advice for navigating the shards of the cracked glass ceiling (hint: there's no magic bullet). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Cracked, but still there: the glass ceiling persists for senior women in science

To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Mangala Srinivas reminds junior colleagues that career success won’t protect you from gender-based bias.

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This weekend is International Women's Day. For the 2nd year, Nature Careers is celebrating by asking award-winning women to nominate the women who inspired them. As told to @scattercushion.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘No one quite like her’: meet the female colleagues who inspire these award-winning women in science

To mark International Women’s Day, Nature asked winners of its awards programmes to nominate a colleague who brings out the best in them.

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It's International Women's Day this weekend! @natureportfolio.nature.com celebrates with a collection of articles exploring how to improve gender equality for women's health and women's careers in science. Eye-popping art by illustrator Maria Corte. www.nature.com/immersive/iw...

International Women's Day 2026

Nature highlights developments in women’s health research and career guidance for women in science.

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For International Women's Day on 8 March this weekend, @nature.com's Careers team presents award-winning women scientists and the women who inspired them. If you need some feel-good news these days or pro tips for mentoring in your own science career, dive in! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘No one quite like her’: meet the female colleagues who inspire these award-winning women in science

To mark International Women’s Day, Nature asked winners of its awards programmes to nominate a colleague who brings out the best in them.

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As the final @nature.com Changemakers in science Q&A, it's truly fitting to highlight the work of Robert Bullard @bullardcenter.bsky.social to put action behind environmental justice research in the most vulnerable communities. As told to @virginiagewin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities

Nicknamed the father of environmental justice, Robert Bullard argues that researchers in the field have more reason than ever to back up their work with action.

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Scientist, get thee to the library! If you're not collaborating with librarians to support your literature searches, open science and data management, you're missing out. (Alternative hed not copyeditor approved - all credit to wonderful writer Amber Dance!) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why every scientist needs a librarian

Librarians can be key research partners who help to scour the literature, manage data and make science open.

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Howard University (re)earned the coveted R1 research rank one year ago – see how other HBCUs are working their way closer to the top research rankings. Reporting by @alexwitze.bsky.social Historically Black US universities chase top research ranking www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Historically Black US universities chase top research ranking

Howard University is reaping the rewards of becoming the first such institution to reach ‘R1’ status.

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