Working Scientist: The award-winning neuroscientist who blazes a trail for open hardware
Tom Baden's work into the neuroscience of vision has earned him the inaugural Nature Research Award for Driving Global Impact.Tom Baden, professor of neuroscience at the University of Sussex, UK, is t...
8 Nov 201917min
Working Scientist podcast: How to inspire young women to consider scientific careerssode
Two projects aimed at boosting female representation in STEM have won the second Nature Research Awards for Inspiring Science and Innovating Science, in partnership with The Estée Lauder Companies.Jea...
15 Okt 201922min
Start looking for jobs before you finish your PhD
In the final episode of this six-part podcast series about physics careers, Gaia Donati draws on her contact with fellow physicists in her role as a manuscript editor at Nature, where she oversees res...
30 Aug 201911min
Switching scientific disciplines
Moving to a new branch of science is scary, but learning new skills and collaborating with different colleagues can be exhilarating, Julie Gould discovers.In the penultimate episode of this six-part s...
22 Aug 201916min
The school physics talk that proved more popular than Lady Gaga's boots
Media interest in particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider boosted Jon Butterworth's interest in public engagement, reports Julie Gould.Jon Butterworth developed a taste for public engagement af...
15 Aug 201923min
Career transitions from physics to data science
Industry has long courted physicists for their data science expertise, but will this change as more undergraduates acquire these skills?In 2013, Kim Nilsson co-founded Pivigo, a training company to pr...
8 Aug 201925min
Global career moves, and how to survive them
Elizabeth Tasker's career has taken her from Europe to Japan via North America, including a Florida campus where alligators lurked in drainage ditches.If your career looks set to include geographical ...
1 Aug 201920min
Why physics is still a man's world, and how to change it
Earlier this year Eindhoven University of Technology faced a social media backlash after announcing that from July 2019, all academic staff vacancies will be open to female applicants only for the fir...
24 Jul 201924min
