Careers

Three researchers who left academia share their tales of self discovery, course correction, and growth.

Jotham Austin opted for a director of a core facility position to combine his love for electron microscopy, teaching, and technique development.

A professional detour veered Ludovic Desvignes into a high-maintenance career—director of a high-containment facility.

Following graduate school, Sarah Carter headed to Washington, DC to carve out a career in science policy.

Shondra Pruett-Miller has taken many paths in her career with her love of genome editing always as a guiding light.

As a group leader at the Broad Institute, Shantanu Singh develops tools to tackle high-dimensional biological data.

Setting up a laboratory comes with no guide. Tina Lasisi, who recently started her own lab, offered tips on how to do it successfully.

Mark Emerson shares his secret for establishing a fruitful research experience for students and mentors alike.

According to Erin Schuman, science driven by fascination rather than tools will guide new discoveries.

Getting it wrong can harm the very creatures that scientists are trying to protect.

Scientists, students, and administrative staff are working to bring about a cultural shift to mitigate the impact of research on the environment.

All members of the scientific community must commit to taking the risks needed to change how research is shared and evaluated.

Silverthorne shaped the development of many NSF programs driving innovation in plant biology and agriculture. 

On average, researchers’ impact dropped by one-half to two-thirds over their careers.

An influential paper on amyloid protein and Alzheimer’s disease potentially fabricated data. Why did it take 16 years to flag?

The journal’s executive director speaks with The Scientist about what it hopes to accomplish with its unusual new publishing model.

Emergency responders arrived at a structure fire in Kansas City to find the two graduate students suffering from “apparent trauma” before they were declared dead at the scene.

For more than 50 years, the program has served as a pipeline to get more scholars of color into academic institutions.

The United States gets roughly an eighth of its tenure-track professors from just five institutions, according to an analysis of nearly 300,000 faculty.