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"Something quite unique about computer science: We don't have a postdoc tradition. That's because we have historically had so many positions available in Ph.D.-granting departments and available for fresh Ph.D.s. Traditionally, when you get your Ph.D. [in computer science], you've got some place to go. There was always more demand than there was supply, and industry was soaking up half."

New group leaders need to learn how to manage people, projects, finances, and more.

Starting this week, we're delivering more Science Careers throughout the week.

High-skill immigration reform is more complicated and contentious than it looks, an expert conference shows.

The labor economist has worked for years behind the scenes, but this year she went public.

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

John Long, his collaborators, and his Vassar undergraduates study fish biomechanics and behavior.

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

Answering these six questions can help you choose your career path without having to make major course corrections.

If history shows anything, it's that taking money away from people who have it and giving it to people who don't is a very difficult thing to do, whether it's scientists or serfs, postdocs or the poor.

In almost every work environment the ability to influence others is an essential job skill.

Setting up successful international collaborations is about leveling the field, especially when working with partners in developing countries.

At the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston on Thursday, Mark Frankel, the Director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program at AAAS, made a case for scientists to think more deeply about their social responsibilities.

At a session at the AAAS Annual Meeting, featured members of the ACS presidential committee on fixing graduate chemistry education, expounded on the report's recommendations.

NSF empowers graduate students with small awards to help them improve their graduate programs.

Scientists need to be thoughtful when communicating science to lay audiences.

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

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

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

A wise skilled-immigration policy would consider the quality of international students in making visa decisions, three experts argue.