How the pandemic widened scientists' mentoring networks
In the final episode of this seven-part series about mentoring, Ruth Gotian and Christine Pfund outline their hopes for post-pandemic mentoring and th...
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Naturejobs is the careers resource for the Nature Publishing Group, publishers of the journal Nature. The Naturejobs podcast is a free audio show highlighting career issues for scientists with interviews from industry experts and key information from presentations at Naturejobs career fairs such as the Source Event.
How to keep the scientific-mentoring magic alive
Some researchers never lose touch with group leaders or committee members who mentored them as graduate students.As Jen Heemstra, a chemistry professo...
The many mentoring types explained
Reverse mentoring, peer-to-peer, group sessions. Choose one or more to tackle a tough career transition.Andy Morris, employability mentoring manager a...
Mentoring, coaching, supervising: what’s the difference?
Good scientific mentors can provide both careers and psychosocial support, says Erin Dolan, who researches innovative approaches to science education ...
How COVID-19 changed scientific mentoring
Many mentoring relationships were disrupted by the pandemic, particularly ones that relied on regular face-to-face contact.How did these established m...
The mentoring messages that can get lost in translation
Science has become more international in the past few decades. This means that you might encounter a variety of people from different geographical and...
Why science needs strong mentors
How can science better support and reward academics who, alongside running labs, writing grants, authoring papers and teaching students, also devote p...
Communities, COVID and credit: the state of science collaborations
This week, Nature has a special issue on collaborations, looking at the benefits to science and society that working together can bring. In this colla...
Business of science: The transferable skills that straddle academia and industry
How does graduate school and academia prepare you for entrepreneurship and a commercial career?J. Nikol Jackson-Beckham, a social scientist who swappe...
Business of science: The setbacks that can help your start-up succeed
The road to commercializing research is strewn with challenges, but how can science start-ups prepare for developments that are harder to predict, suc...