In physics and in life, choice and possibility play against each other.

Billy Bryan and Furaha Asani look at how to get the most out of your doctoral studies.

Alternative career paths should be celebrated, not seen as a compromise.

We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus beginning to emerge?

Postdoc positions in industry can teach people skills that they would not learn in academia.

The peer-review system, despite its flaws, is a central component of the publication process. However, relatively little guidance is provided for early-career scientists on 2 important aspects of peer review:

Eight scientists share the secrets of being a successful principal investigator

The American Sociological Association is starting a conversation to include “public communication” -- work often largely ignored -- in the assessment of a scholar’s contributions. Why does it matter?

“Isn't this just a glorified postdoc position? Won't taking this offer hurt my chances of landing a tenure-track professor position?”

With university staff thinking about the start of the next academic year, Robert MacIntosh and Kevin O'Gorman offer some advice to staff due to arrive on campus this autumn.

The story of CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing has tended to focus on a few key players.

There is such a surplus of Ph.D.s that in the most popular fields, like biomedicine, fewer than one in six reach their goal in academia.

A postdoc job is good for your career, but don't get stuck in an academic cul-de-sac, says Søren-Peter Olesen.