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"I like to move very fast and take a lot of risks compared to the traditional Swedish way."

--Mohammed Homman

Briscoe believes that evolutionary biology is an important--and growing--discipline that will continue to offer a range of career opportunities.

"The club's development was very often a thrilling trial-and-error evolutionary approach, as no one involved in it had ever done anything similar before."

Many scientists opt for a research career in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, so why not kick-start the process by also doing a postdoc in industry? Industrial postdocs often provide higher salaries and greater access to resources than their academic counterparts. But how do you find out about available positions and whether they are a good fit for you? Will a position as a postdoctoral fellow provide you a foot in the door at a company? And what if you don't like it? Will an industrial postdoc cut you off from returning to academia?

Psychologists share tips for figuring out what's sapping your enthusiasm—and how to get it back.

The agency has updated its grant proposal guide, but its new use of "products" in the biosketch, in place of publications, is ambiguous.

Forgoing alarmist pronouncements, a National Academies committee makes sensible suggestions about how to address the workforce needs of the Department of Defense.

Many Spanish trainees have been forced to start their doctorates without financial help.

Managing an intimate relationship at work requires awareness of potential pitfalls and a delicate balance of privacy and openness.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

The best and most popular stories of 2012, as chosen by readers and editors.

Despite what grad school admissions committees seem to believe, outside interests are good.

Identifying and addressing self-confidence issues can help early-career scientists make swifter progress.

Experts discussed how mentoring differs for minorities and how it can be tweaked to ensure that scientists don't hit a "mentoring glass ceiling."

One of the last sessions at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting looked at transformative research and the factors that facilitate it—or don't.

Recent political pronouncements would be laughable if they weren't potentially so harmful.

A recent NSF report finds that efforts to improve the representation of women, minorities, and people with disabilities in science and engineering are slow going.

Scientists with an ability to work across fields can find exciting opportunities in biomaterials.