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Stacking the deck

Nature volume 422, pages 784–785 (2003)Cite this article

Without doing the homework, choosing a postdoc position is a bit like picking a playing card at random. Karen Kreeger advises on how to come up trumps.

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Kreeger, K. Stacking the deck. Nature 422, 784–785 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj6933-784a

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