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

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

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

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All Roads Lead to Genome Editing
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Feb 9, 2024 | 6 min read
Shondra Pruett-Miller has taken many paths in her career with her love of genome editing always as a guiding light.
Machine Learning Seamless Pattern
A Big Data Approach to Life Science
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Oct 2, 2023 | 2 min read
As a group leader at the Broad Institute, Shantanu Singh develops tools to tackle high-dimensional biological data.
Starting a New Lab
The Scientist | 1 min read
Advice for new principal investigators starting their first research laboratories!
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A Successful Lab Launch
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Oct 2, 2023 | 2 min read
Setting up a laboratory comes with no guide. Tina Lasisi, who recently started her own lab, offered tips on how to do it successfully.
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Captivated by the Great Expanse of Neurons
Danielle Gerhard, PhD | Aug 1, 2023 | 2 min read
According to Erin Schuman, science driven by fascination rather than tools will guide new discoveries.
A male and female Chiriqui harlequin frog (<em>Atelopus chiriquiensis</em>) photographed in 2010. The species was declared extinct in 2019.
How Do Scientists Decide a Species Has Gone Extinct?
Andy Carstens | Mar 1, 2023 | 10 min read
Getting it wrong can harm the very creatures that scientists are trying to protect.
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Green Lab Initiatives Take Root Around the World
Natalia Mesa, PhD | Nov 14, 2022 | 9 min read
Scientists, students, and administrative staff are working to bring about a cultural shift to mitigate the impact of research on the environment.
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Opinion: In Publishing, Don’t Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
Hilal A. Lashuel | Nov 10, 2022 | 5 min read
All members of the scientific community must commit to taking the risks needed to change how research is shared and evaluated.
a middle-aged male scientist wearing a white lab coat points at a computer screen while a younger woman scientist also wearing a lab coat looks on.
Younger Scientists Are More Innovative, Study Finds
Katherine Irving | Oct 28, 2022 | 5 min read
On average, researchers’ impact dropped by one-half to two-thirds over their careers.
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Opinion: Science Needs Better Fraud Detection—And More Whistleblowers
Aman Majmudar, Undark | Oct 26, 2022 | 5 min read
An influential paper on amyloid protein and Alzheimer’s disease potentially fabricated data. Why did it take 16 years to flag?
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Q&A: Why eLife Is Doing Away with Rejections
Jef Akst | Oct 21, 2022 | 4 min read
The journal’s executive director speaks with The Scientist about what it hopes to accomplish with its unusual new publishing model.
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Ford Foundation Sunsets Diversity Fellowships
Andy Carstens | Sep 27, 2022 | 6 min read
For more than 50 years, the program has served as a pipeline to get more scholars of color into academic institutions.
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“Extreme Inequality” Entrenched in Academic Hiring: Study
Katherine Irving | Sep 23, 2022 | 2 min read
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.
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Constipation’s Effect on Scorpion Sex Garners Biology Ig Nobel
Christie Wilcox, PhD | Sep 16, 2022 | 3 min read
Other winners of this year’s prizes include research on the physics of ducklings and the therapeutic potential of ice cream.
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How to Fix Science's Code Problem
Katarina Zimmer | Sep 12, 2022 | 10 min read
Despite increasingly strict journal policies requiring the release of computational code files along with research papers, many scientists remain reluctant to share—underscoring the need for better solutions.
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Unionization Efforts Pick Up Across US Universities
Catherine Offord, Andy Carstens, and Amanda Heidt | Sep 1, 2022 | 10 min read
Members of newly certified workers’ organizations at campuses across the US speak about how they achieved official recognition and what they’re planning for the years ahead.
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Major, Groundbreaking Increase in Hype in Grant Applications
Christie Wilcox, PhD | Aug 30, 2022 | 3 min read
Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health increasingly employ subjective and promotional language in describing research, a study finds.
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AAAS Shutters Its Center for Public Engagement
Andy Carstens | Aug 26, 2022 | 4 min read
The center oversaw programs such as the Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship, many of which will continue.
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In Deep Water With Gül Dölen
Peter Hess, Spectrum | Aug 4, 2022 | 10 min read
A researcher’s existential crisis led to a scientific breakthrough.
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