Nine in 10 British Academy postdocs get permanent academic jobs
Strong career outcomes of fellowship holders underlines importance of early career support, says academy
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Trump’s Columbia cuts start hitting postdocs and professors
But the full extent of the slashing is still unclear as neither the Trump administration nor Columbia has shared what grants and contracts were ended
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Postdoc publications ‘more important for career than PhD success’
Academic hiring focused on star doctoral graduates should instead focus on what comes afterwards, advises longitudinal study
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Jobs fail to materialise as Spanish postdoc talent scheme ends
María Zambrano programme was designed to attract international talent – but many recipients say no effort has been made to retain them
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Chu: China ‘will blow us away’ if Trump destroys US universities
Without foreign research talent pouring into leading US?institutions, America will fall further behind in tech race, says former?US energy secretary Steven Chu
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Postdocs undervalued as PhD mentors
They need the money and graduate students identify with them, but universities don’t formalise the link, analysts warn
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‘Much more funding’ needed for UK to attract US science talent
Leading light of Cambridge biotech industry Greg Winter says country should seize ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to poach American scientists fleeing Trump cuts
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Reproducibility ‘crisis’ in US science ‘overblown’, says Nobelist
‘AI-powered’ tools used by research sleuths overplay scale of?issue now weaponised to defund projects, according to?Thomas Südhof
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In a male-dominated field, my success became misconduct
When student complaints were made against a high-achieving female scientist, her institution launched a one-man inquiry that found her blameworthy merely ‘for doing my job’, she writes: a ‘textbook...
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To best preserve US science, Europe should focus help on junior scholars
Early career researchers are most in need of rapid support for work halted by political interference or sudden funding loss, say five scholars
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I’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exit
For one mid-career academic scientist, precarity is becoming unbearable. But they are too experienced for entry-level industry jobs and not experienced enough for senior ones. They’ve stayed too long...
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National Institutes of Health weighs pay hike for postdocs
Top US funding agency considers $70,000 (?55,000) minimum salary that could become wider model
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Cancer researcher leans on own work after incurable diagnosis
Specialist in health and exercise applies years of experience?working with patients as she targets completing marathon on Mount Everest
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Lengthy PhDs and postdocs ‘slowing professor promotions’
Analysis of 5.8?million authors across all scientific disciplines also shows gender gap is closing, but with distance to?go