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Science Careers is presenting four career workshops at the AAAS annual meeting this week.

Our tiny sample of African-American women reveals brilliance, scientific ambition, and anecdotal evidence of progress in the fight against ethnic and gender discrimination.

For those in training for an academic career, research gets all the attention, but teaching and service are also important.

Science Careers describes how to get tenure--and what some people do when they don't.

A collection of the best Science Careers articles on this popular career path for scientists.

The newly appointed executive director of ORCID discusses her career and her latest challenge.

The best way to motivate scientists is to engage them, encourage them, and stay out of their way.

People sometimes overestimate the extent to which the conventional assumptions apply. Often, for example, managers assume they are more qualified than they really are to judge their employees' performance.

"The choices I made pretty much mirrored my growth as a scientist."

"You need to manage your laboratory the same way you do your science: boldly but methodically, with the right balance of purposefulness and opportunism."

"I grew up catching fish, frogs, insects, turtles, and crayfish and turning our bathroom and living room into a zoo."

Don't blow your job interview.

We just want all the scientists who choose to work in the U.S. to get as much satisfaction from their work and their lives as possible, whether they were born and educated here or overseas.

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"Without discouraging those eager and available to work long hours, Barker's book offers the promise of an alternative--sound management leading to greater productivity--for those who want to have a life outside the lab."

An organization that is working at full capacity lacks time for reflection and resources with which to adapt to change.

Apart from his prominent publications in several different fields, what distinguishes Lu from most of his scientific peers is the unpretentious joy he takes in science.