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As the hiring season gets underway, academic listings are still way down from last year, but there are signs of the job market picking back up.

Partnering in life with a fellow researcher brings unique challenges as well as rewards.

For years, a committee at CNRS has bucked the recommendations of its researchers to hire two social scientists, and colleagues conclude that prejudice is at play.

Plus, more scientists nowadays spend their entire careers in supporting roles, rather than leading their own research programs.

Some researchers are at risk of job loss and even deportation if Trump decides to end a program that allows undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children to obtain work permits. 

Graduate students from The Scripps Research Institute share how they prepared to enter policy, law, biotech, and beyond.

A new study quantifies the imbalance between the number of biomedical graduate job seekers and available positions in the U.S.

The European Commission has pledged to help find positions for researchers fleeing their home countries.

Industry layoffs may save a few dollars, at the cost of losing the collective brainpower of thousands of scientists.

Women applying to faculty openings in science or engineering have a two-fold better chance of getting the job than men, according to a hiring simulation.

GlaxoSmithKline is eliminating 900 US jobs—most in R&D.

Academia is not producing sufficient PhDs in the plant sciences to solve the crop production challenges facing a rapidly growing population.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers should be taking part in discussions on the future of biomedical research.

Most science, technology, engineering, and math degree-holders seek jobs unrelated to their academic disciplines, according to a report.

In an ever-changing job market, PhD scientists should be careful not to confuse their passion with their research foci, and to avoid academic tunnel vision.

California, Texas, and New York are home to more than a quarter of all US scientists and engineers, according to an NSF report.

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Despite a decade of recruitment, women are still underrepresented in science.