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For all the naïve and gullible graduate students out there, here is a handy guide to what those speakers are really saying.

How can we ensure that future students will read our names when, many years from now, they open their science textbooks on their iPad 15s?

Scientific hoaxes can be fun (when they're harmless) while also serving a serious function: exposing failures of scientists' most important tool, their skepticism.

If you like grant writing, writing grants, and obtaining grants via writing, you may enjoy life as an academic scientist.

If scientists just want to make the world a better place, why do they expend so much energy clamoring for credit?

Charged with perusing applications for an open scientist job, our columnist lowers his standards.

Our columnist continues to explore the craggy, often arbitrarily boldface landscape of the scientific resume.