Rescinded job offers and quarantine hotels: what lockdown lab moves taught us
Alongside the stresses of adapting to a new country and settling into a new lab, scientists who have made the move abroad since 2020 often face extra barriers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.Thes...
9 Des 202224min
Moving labs: a checklist for researchers with disabilities
Kelsey Byers outlines some of the things disabled scientists should look out when they are looking to move labs, both at home and abroad. Byers, an evolutionary chemical ecologist who was diagnosed wi...
2 Des 202228min
‘The dumbest person in the room:’ moving labs and switching fields
After completing a PhD in cancer biology at the University of Chicago, Illinois, in 2017, Tim Fessenden moved to a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge to focus on immu...
24 Nov 202226min
Moving labs, moving countries: how to get both right
In the third episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series about moving labs, three researchers who moved abroad for work describe how they handled the challenges it brought, including lan...
17 Nov 202228min
‘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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Okt 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 Okt 202219min
