‘Trailing spouses’ and ‘two body’ problems: how to move labs as a scientist couple
In the second episode of this Working Scientist podcast series about moving labs, physical geographer Mette Bendixen and her ecologist husband Lars Iversen describe how they resolved their two-body pr...
10 Marras 202221min
‘Is the PI a jerk?’ Key questions to ask when you’re moving lab
Laboratory leaders are not doing you a favour when they hire you, says geneticist Joanne Kamens, a senior consultant at The Impact Seat, a scientific workplace consultancy based in Boston, Massachuset...
2 Marras 202221min
More support needed to survive the mid-career stage in science
In 2016, Salome Maswime’s five-year mid-career award from the South African Medical Research Council gave the clinician and global health researcher some much-needed funding security, enabling her to ...
27 Loka 202217min
Mid-career scientists: advice to our younger selves
How are mid-career scientists’ research efforts affected when they take on administrative and leadership positions? What is their advice about navigating workplace politics? And do their employers tre...
20 Loka 202219min
Why the mid-career stage in science can feel like a second puberty
Life satisfaction can hit rock bottom in midlife before bouncing back as our ageing brains start to feel less regretful about missed opportunites, says Hannes Schwandt, a health economist at Northwest...
12 Loka 202216min
Burnout and breakdowns: how mid-career scientists can protect themselves
Trying to achieve balance in your personal and professional lives is misguided, four researchers tell Julie Gould in the third episode of Muddle of the Middle, a six-part podcast series about the mid-...
5 Loka 202213min
When life gets in the way of scientists’ mid-career plans
In 2012, more than a decade years after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in French, mother-of-six Bethany Kolbaba Kartchner switched to science, rising at 4 a.m. to study for an associate’s degree ...
28 Syys 202223min
Muddle of the middle: why mid-career scientists feel neglected
Is 40 too young for a scientist to describe themselves as mid-career? If the term can’t be defined by age, does it refer to landing tenure, to achieving a level of autonomy or to serving on multiple a...
21 Syys 20229min
