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A Commentary Illuminating the Incongruity Between the Expectation that all Individuals ShouldRead Contracts and the Realistic Infeasibility of Contract Reading, Culminating in a SuggestedPolicy Change
The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) represents a consortium of over 3000 scientists from over 54 countries working collaboratively to share data, ideas, recruit patients and disseminate our…
Childhood exposure to science through museums
Issue 23 of Scientifica Magazine “Into the Upside Down”
Graduate school, and academia to a larger extent, is perhaps one of the most unorganized jobs there is. I received no list of expectations, no rubric for what…
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is a smaller professional society of ~800 women in science around the United States. Once a year, they host a conference to bring…
Keeping up with scientific literature, career development, experiments, and everything else going on can feel like a lot, especially during graduate school. It’s very easy for things like…
What are informational interviews and why should you do them? Informational interview: speaking with someone about their knowledge for insights on their career path & areas of interest.…
There’s a whole category of careers that keep the scientific community running, and most PhD programs never mention them once. Scientific society administration is one of them. And…
Clinical trials are how we find out whether new medicines, vaccines, and treatments actually work. And behind every well-run trial, there’s someone making sure everything stays on track,…
When scientists hear “business development,” one of two things comes to mind: a sales rep they’ve been avoiding in the lab hallway, or a vague corporate role that…
When most scientists think about careers in biotech or pharma, they picture research labs. Discovery work. Experiments, data, publications. But there’s an entirely different side of those industries…
Most scientists interact with scientific publishing from one side only, submitting papers, waiting on reviews, dealing with rejections. But there’s an entire world of careers behind that process,…
Picture this: you have a PhD, you understand the science deeply, but you don’t want to spend the next decade at a bench or chasing grant funding. You…
Most scientists spend years learning how to do the science. We design experiments, troubleshoot protocols, write papers, all of it centred around producing and publishing research. But here’s…