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Jones believes that senior scientists have "lost a sense of accountability to the next generation insofar as all of our interests in them are self interests ... so that
our career can get advanced but not necessarily
their career."

For some applicants, just competing for the Pathways award was a valuable experience.

"By going to different labs," says Edvard Moser, "You learn different ways of thinking and you can create bridges between sub-disciplines and find something unexpected."

Protecting human research subjects is hot stuff right now.

"Try and identify the people that can really teach you and help you very quickly," says Diego Centonze.

The interview process, she points out, goes both ways: They are interviewing you and you are interviewing them.

The goal is to give universities an added incentive to recruit young investigators ….

This is an unusual position; I will have little bureaucracy and limited teaching.

NIH plans to make grants that give "principal investigator status to not one investigator, as is now the norm, but to all key members of the research team." Whether postdocs will attain that coveted designation is not yet clear, but "it would at least be allowable as far as the agency is concerned."

"To found a company and then stay on the outside, the company can take all sorts of different directions. If you really want to have influence, the only way to do that is to join it." - Corey Goodman

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.

In implementing the recommendations of its Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group, NIH decides to play it safe.

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

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 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.

A panel of workforce experts at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting urged NIH to be more aggressive in fixing biomedical workforce training.