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Science editors, says Jonathan Wood, need to be able "to spot a good story and find the right way of getting it across."

"I found that I didn't need to follow current trends as much. I became a bit more trusting of my own judgments, a bit more trusting that my own curiosity would take me directions that other people might find interesting as well," says Jeremy Baumberg.

"Research methods are fundamental to my work, in everything I do." --Keith Lipman

"I still need to worry about money," says Graham Smith. The difference now is that he does not have to bring in money because of profit targets but "because of my curiosity about how the universe works. That's a very different motivation."

The French bureaucracy was sometimes a challenge, but, these researchers say, the scientific environment largely made up for it.

Botanist-turned-teacher Liam Garvey describes his ultimate reward as "when a kid gets it. You see the light of understanding; that's the kick."

Systems Biology "is one of the areas as a postdoc that you have a chance to become a group leader early," Nicolas Le Novère, European Bioinformatics Institute, U.K.

"You can look at the endpoint and think 'nice path,' … but it was hard." --Javier Palatnik

By age 40, a mere 20% of astronomy PhDs have astronomy faculty jobs at universities (or scientific positions at observatories) in country …

The mutual interaction of population dynamics and evolutionary processes is a key theme of Hanna Kokko’s work.

"You have a lot to learn, but when you can argue the case of your patent application successfully to a patent examiner, it's great," says Sarah Thompson.

"I think I have been lucky in the choice of topics to work on, topics which later turned out to be useful for developments in an apparently different direction."