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Decoupling of the minority PhD talent pool and assistant professor hiring in medical school basic science departments in the US

eLife, 2016
Faculty diversity is a longstanding challenge in the US. However, we lack a quantitative and systemic understanding of how the career transitions into assistant professor positions of PhD scientists from underrepresented minority (URM) and well ...
Kenneth D Gibbs Jr, Jacob Basson, Imam M Xierali, David A Broniatowski   +3 more
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Career choices of underrepresented and female postdocs in the biomedical sciences

eLife, 2020
The lack of diversity among faculty at universities and medical schools in the United States is a matter of growing concern. However, the factors that influence the career choices of underrepresented minority and female postdoctoral researchers have ...
W Marcus Lambert, Martin T Wells, Matthew F Cipriano, Jacob N Sneva, Juanita A Morris, Linnie M Golightly   +5 more
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Avoiding a lost generation of scientists

eLife, 2016
By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.
Justin Q Taylor, Peter Kovacik, James Traer, Philip Zakahi, Christine Oslowski, Alik S Widge, Christin A Glorioso   +6 more
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A good life

eLife, 2012
Following a career in science involves long hours and hard work, but as Eve Marder explains in the first of a series of columns, it can also be extremely rewarding.
Eve Marder
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First person – Sijie Tan and Wen Han Tong

Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2023
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers.
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The museum micro-fellowship

Science Museum Group Journal, 2019
Sharing research ideas and connections between universities and museums is a complicated subject. Time pressures, limited resources and the differing needs and objectives of partners can make these working relationships hard to get off the ground ...
Anna Geurts, Oliver Betts
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A question of time

eLife, 2018
How does a scientist balance establishing a career and starting a family?
Peter Rodgers
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Change is Hard: Transitions and the Liminal Positionality of Postdoctoral Fellows in Engineering and Computer Science

Studies in Engineering Education
Postdoctoral fellows experience isolation and mixed messages about their position and purpose. Little research defines the positionality of postdoctoral fellows, leaving faculty and postdoctoral fellows to make assumptions based on their own experiences.
Matthew Bahnson, Monique Ross, Catherine Berdanier   +2 more
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Crossing oceans

eLife, 2013
Eve Marder explains why all scientists should spend time living and working in a foreign country.
Eve Marder
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The writing on the wall

eLife, 2013
The biomedical research enterprise in the US has become unsustainable and urgent action is needed to address a variety of problems, including a lack of innovation, an over-reliance on soft money for faculty salaries, the use of graduate students as a ...
Henry R Bourne
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