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The COVID19 crisis has magnified the issues plaguing academic science, but it has also provided the scientific establishment with an unprecedented opportunity to reset. Shoring up the foundation of academic science will require a concerted effort between funding agencies, universities, and the public to rethink how we support scientists, with a special emphasis on early career researchers.
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Mobilidade Ocupacional , Pesquisadores/tendências , Pesquisa/tendências , Logro , Pesquisa Biomédica , Humanos , Pesquisadores/educação , Ciência/educação , Ciência/tendências , UniversidadesRESUMO
Women have been at the forefront of tremendous achievements in immunology in the past decade. However, disparities still exist, limiting upward potential and further advancements. As four NIH intramural women scientists who care deeply about scientific progress and the progress of women in our field, we review ongoing challenges and discuss potential approaches to help advance the promotion of women in the sciences.
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Alergia e Imunologia/tendências , Sexismo/tendências , Direitos da Mulher/tendências , Pesquisa Biomédica/tendências , Mobilidade Ocupacional , Feminino , História do Século XXI , Humanos , Tutoria/tendências , National Institutes of Health (U.S.) , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Looking back at the time spent in graduate school and postdoctoral training can be illuminating. We asked postdoctoral researchers to tell us what kind of advice they would give to their younger selves.
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Pesquisa Biomédica/educação , Mobilidade Ocupacional , Educação de Pós-Graduação , Pesquisadores , Pesquisa Biomédica/economia , Escolha da Profissão , Recursos HumanosRESUMO
Getting together to exchange ideas, forge collaborations, and disseminate knowledge is a long-standing tradition of scientific communities. How conferences are serving the community, what their current challenges are, and what is in store for the future of conferences are the topics covered in this Commentary.
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Congressos como Assunto , Ciência , Mobilidade Ocupacional , Congressos como Assunto/tendências , Comportamento Cooperativo , Ciência/organização & administração , Ciência/tendências , Rede Social , Recursos HumanosRESUMO
Working from home has become standard for employees with a university degree. The most common scheme, which has been adopted by around 100 million employees in Europe and North America, is a hybrid schedule, in which individuals spend a mix of days at home and at work each week1,2. However, the effects of hybrid working on employees and firms have been debated, and some executives argue that it damages productivity, innovation and career development3-5. Here we ran a six-month randomized control trial investigating the effects of hybrid working from home on 1,612 employees in a Chinese technology company in 2021-2022. We found that hybrid working improved job satisfaction and reduced quit rates by one-third. The reduction in quit rates was significant for non-managers, female employees and those with long commutes. Null equivalence tests showed that hybrid working did not affect performance grades over the next two years of reviews. We found no evidence for a difference in promotions over the next two years overall, or for any major employee subgroup. Finally, null equivalence tests showed that hybrid working had no effect on the lines of code written by computer-engineer employees. We also found that the 395 managers in the experiment revised their surveyed views about the effect of hybrid working on productivity, from a perceived negative effect (-2.6% on average) before the experiment to a perceived positive one (+1.0%) after the experiment. These results indicate that a hybrid schedule with two days a week working from home does not damage performance.
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Satisfação no Emprego , Reorganização de Recursos Humanos , Teletrabalho , Desempenho Profissional , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , China , Eficiência , Reorganização de Recursos Humanos/estatística & dados numéricos , Teletrabalho/estatística & dados numéricos , Desempenho Profissional/estatística & dados numéricos , Tolerância ao Trabalho Programado/psicologia , Tecnologia , Comércio , Mobilidade OcupacionalRESUMO
Scientists often contemplate careers in academia versus the biotech industry. We spoke with Dr. Rachel Haurwitz about her career trajectory, being a female scientist in the biotech world, how research in academia compares to industry, and career advice for young scientists thinking about venturing outside of academia into this area.
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Pesquisa Biomédica/história , Biotecnologia/história , Escolha da Profissão , Técnicas Genéticas/história , Indústrias/história , Pesquisa Biomédica/tendências , Biotecnologia/tendências , Mobilidade Ocupacional , Difusão de Inovações , Técnicas Genéticas/tendências , História do Século XXI , Humanos , Indústrias/tendências , PesquisadoresAssuntos
Pesquisa Biomédica , Escolha da Profissão , Alergia e Imunologia/história , Alergia e Imunologia/tendências , Pesquisa Biomédica/história , Pesquisa Biomédica/tendências , Biotecnologia/história , Biotecnologia/tendências , Mobilidade Ocupacional , Feminino , História do Século XXI , HumanosRESUMO
Despite the long-standing calls for increased levels of interdisciplinary research as a way to address society's grand challenges, most science is still disciplinary. To understand the slow rate of convergence to more interdisciplinary research, we examine 154,021 researchers who received a PhD in a biomedical field between 1970 and 2013, measuring the interdisciplinarity of their articles using the disciplinary composition of references. We provide a range of evidence that interdisciplinary research is impactful, but that those who conduct it face early career impediments. The researchers who are initially the most interdisciplinary tend to stop publishing earlier in their careers-it takes about 8 y for half of the researchers in the top percentile in terms of initial interdisciplinarity to stop publishing, compared to more than 20 y for moderately interdisciplinary researchers (10th to 75th percentiles). Moreover, perhaps in response to career challenges, initially interdisciplinary researchers on average decrease their interdisciplinarity over time. These forces reduce the stock of interdisciplinary researchers who can train future cohorts. Indeed, new graduates tend to be less interdisciplinary than the stock of active researchers. We show that interdisciplinarity does increase over time despite these dampening forces because initially disciplinary researchers become more interdisciplinary as their careers progress.
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Pesquisa Biomédica , Pesquisa Interdisciplinar , Humanos , Pesquisadores , Escolha da Profissão , Mobilidade Ocupacional , Editoração/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
For broad scientific careers, resumes serve as critical job-search tools. This Commentary provides a strategy for writing an effective resume for searching for a nonacademic job.