A New York Times article posted yesterday presents a pretty convincing case for the financial reasons (and some other weighty reasons) not to … More
Category: Culture of Science
It’s time to get real about non-academic job training for biomedical PhDs and postdocs
Last week, Dr. Sally Rockey put up a post on the NIH’s Rock Talk blog clarifying allowable training activities for … More
Retractions, Exploring the Zooniverse, Spiders in Guam, and Crowdfunding
I have four recent posts up at the AAAS MemberCentral website: Should a scientific journal article be retracted if its … More
Does gender bias play a role in the leaky pipeline after all?
A new post of mine was recently published on the AAAS MemberCentral Driving Force blog (may be behind paywall for … More
How do male scientists balance lab life with home life? – AAAS MemberCentral post
Photo credits: CDC (Amanda Mills) By interviewing male biologists and physicists from different career stages, Elaine Howard Ecklund and colleagues … More
Summer E. Allen, PhD 