Losing confidence and losing motivation are two different things, even though one usually causes the other. All of us experience a loss of confidence in our careers at some point in our lives and it will happen again in the future too. What's impor...

Social media can both advance and hinder your career depending on how you use it. Most of the recruiters admit that they look at candidates' social media profiles before making their decision. Therefore, you have to be careful about how you use soc...

Efforts to improve safety standards and practices in academic labs are multiplying at universities and colleges across the country, but teaching safety as rules and compliance is insufficient, experts agree. Instead, students need to learn and practice...

Most principal investigators are eager to talk about their management success stories: postdocs and graduate students who have gone on to become science rock stars. But there's another reality of science that is rarely discussed. Sometimes, the rel...