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Dear mentors, remember the lingering pandemic impacts on trainees this year

…that undergraduate students starting in labs in the fall may be experiencing more stress and uncertainty than they would have before the pandemic. Just as exploration of academic interests and…

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Utility Page: Restricted Content Notice

…career advancement. Dissecting Job Ads and Tailoring Your Résumé Expand Joe Cribari, Founder and CEO, JC3 Consulting   Recruiters spend an average of just 5-7 seconds assessing a résumé or…

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Say ‘No’ to the Impact Factor

…getting in the elevator. You say hi and ask how is their research going. ‘It is going well, we just submitted a paper’ says the student. ‘Oh, that’s great!’ you…

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How international scientists can advocate, and how U.S. scientists can support them

…immigrant, you can still have a voice in advocacy. Photo from Creative Commons (by Sage Ross) Advocate to the public You don’t need to just get involved with political advocacy….

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Tanner to receive Bruce Alberts award for excellence in science education

…to teach differently and move beyond only lecture approaches—and not just in classrooms, but also at conferences and in seminars—it should be scientists, especially biologists!” Tanner adds. She also sees…

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Resources to address challenges for international students and postdocs

…U.S. on a J-1 visa, and was on that for just over two years when I received a green card through marriage. I moved from Boston Children’s Hospital to Tufts…

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Help gather data and inform­ation to recognize the role of early career researchers in peer review

…editor’s decision.” For others, perhaps it is just “what is done”, or, more likely, the experience that they had during their own training. But is it really a problem if…

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Spotlight: COMPASS Outreach Grant Recipients Spring/Summer 2018

…from epigenetics to astrophysics. Making an Impact with Microbiology – This newly funded program just finished its first semester in spring 2018. Graduate students from the University of Colorado Boulder…

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Geneticist Barbara Meyer Honored with 2018 E.B. Wilson Medal

…stunning new light on adjacent fields and topics like higher-order chromatin structure, condensins, and histone modification, to name just a few.” Cynthia Kenyon, professor emerita at the University of California,…

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Managing social distancing as a scientist in training

…term. While we all adjust to these new societal norms to combat this pandemic, the global scientific community is quickly learning how to work from home. Grant deadlines are being…

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