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Career Guide |
Linguistic tricks to grab your online audience’s attention
Virtual meetings can suck the life out of a presentation. Pausing, probing and varying your pitch will keep your muted listeners hooked.
- Valerie Fridland
- & Ruth Gotian
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Correspondence |
Disabled scientists’ networks call for more support
- Maria Niedernhuber
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- & Nicole Brown
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News |
Scientists want virtual meetings to stay after the COVID pandemic
A Nature poll shows that a year of online research conferences has brought big benefits, but blending them with in-person meetings in future will be a challenge.
- Ariana Remmel
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News |
Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record
The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.
- Nidhi Subbaraman
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Career Column |
Why you should consider becoming a doctoral representative
Join a group that represents PhD researchers to improve the working environment of your colleagues and to make friends.
- Michaela Löffler
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Career Feature |
Rethinking travel in a post-pandemic world
Climate scientists recommend ways to boost the value of virtual conferences and reduce carbon footprints even when travel curbs ease.
- Josie Glausiusz
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Career Feature |
Ways to look after yourself and others in 2021
Scientists offer their views on what’s important for the coming year.
- Virginia Gewin
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Where I Work |
‘I want to generate opportunities for Black scientists’
UK geoscientist Christopher Jackson will be the first Black researcher to deliver a Christmas lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
- Virginia Gewin
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Career Column |
Why your scientific presentation should not be adapted from a journal article
In trying to be rigorous, scientists frequently pack presentations with content from journal articles. The result can be incomprehensible and a lost opportunity.
- David Rubenson
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News |
Who are science’s frequent flyers? Climate researchers
Survey finds climate scholars take more flights on average per year — but make greater effort to offset their emissions.
- Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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Career Column |
Spare a thought for longitudinal diversity
The shift to virtual conferences needs to be accompanied by a sensitivity to people in different time zones.
- Geoff Goodhill
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Career News |
How researchers overturned US sanctions on a virtual summer school
US rules forced an online neuroscience course to block people in Iran from signing up, but the organizers won a last-minute reprieve.
- Christine Ro
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Career Feature |
What’s on the agenda for post-pandemic meetings?
Conferences could become more affordable, international and inclusive if virtual events become ‘the new normal’.
- Nic Fleming
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Comment |
An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19
Biennials, regional hubs and virtual attendance can slash emissions, new calculations show.
- Milan Klöwer
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- & James Higham
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Career Column |
Organizing a virtual conference changed the way we think about academic exchange
Flying around the world to give a ten-minute presentation to an exhausted audience is a model long overdue for reform, say sustainability researchers Christina Bidmon, Cristyn Meath and René Bohnsack.
- Christina Bidmon
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- & René Bohnsack
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News Feature |
How scientific conferences will survive the coronavirus shock
Virtual meetings are becoming the norm under COVID-19 and winning over many researchers: part 3 in a series on science after the pandemic.
- Giuliana Viglione
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Career Feature |
Learning to love virtual conferences in the coronavirus era
COVID-19 has provided an opportunity to rethink the scientific conference. If online meetings become the norm, how can researchers make the most of them?
- Chris Woolston
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Career Column |
How to defend a PhD remotely
Alyssa Frederick defended her thesis remotely before the coronavirus outbreak began. Here’s how.
- Alyssa Frederick
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Career Column |
Boosting the signal in scientific talks
A few modest adjustments to the planning and delivery of talks can help scientists share ideas with their peers more effectively, say Scott St. George and Michael White.
- Scott St. George
- & Michael White
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Correspondence |
Brazil’s researchers overturn government ruling
- Leandro F. M. Rezende
- & Gabriela A. Wagner
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News |
A year without conferences? How the coronavirus pandemic could change research
As scientific meetings are cancelled worldwide, researchers are rethinking how they network — a move that some say is long overdue.
- Giuliana Viglione
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Career Feature |
Make scientific meetings a welcoming place for patient partners
As science increasingly looks to co-produce research with patients, how can conference organizers help to accommodate non-scientists at academic meetings?
- Andy Tay
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Career Column |
Stop making graduate students pay up front for conferences
John Malloy shares his experiences of risking debt to travel — and discusses what to do about it.
- John Malloy
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Career Feature |
Five ‘power skills’ for becoming a team leader
Volunteering with an organization can improve communication and help you adapt to the unexpected, say Sarah Groover and Ruth Gotian.
- Sarah Groover
- & Ruth Gotian
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Correspondence |
Climate change: how to pack a punch at meetings
- Charles Davis
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- & Jason Beckfield
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World View |
New Year’s resolution: one meeting-free week a quarter
Protect time for deep thinking — it is crucial for productivity in a world of constant interaction, urges Heidi Rehm.
- Heidi Rehm
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: Our reporters’ top picks of 2019
The podcast team share some of their highlights from the past 12 months.
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Career Guide |
The 2020 Events Guide
The essential reference guide to scientific events worldwide.
- Jack Leeming
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Career Guide |
From social media to conference social
Molecular biologist Oded Rechavi explains his idea for bringing the Twitter science community together at ‘the Woodstock of Biology’.
- Josie Glausiusz
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Career Guide |
How the scientific meeting has changed since Nature’s founding 150 years ago
Charting the 1869 conference vibe and the challenges faced by today’s organizers.
- Virginia Gewin
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Career Guide |
Ways to make meetings accessible
Four scientists with disabilities or chronic conditions share their conference conundrums and give advice on improving accessibility.
- Emily Sohn
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Editorial |
Nature Conferences: no more ‘manels’
A new code of conduct strives for more-diverse research meetings and events.
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News |
Science publishers review ethics of research on Chinese minority groups
Springer Nature and Wiley have concerns about lack of consent in genetics and facial-recognition papers.
- Richard Van Noorden
- & Davide Castelvecchi
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Career Guide |
How a cell scientist in São Paulo is battling malaria
Celia Garcia shares her thoughts on the state of science in Brazil.
- Nic Fleming
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Career Guide |
The microscopic advances that are opening big opportunities in cell biology
A proliferation of imaging techniques spells good news for careers.
- Nic Fleming
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Career Guide |
A cell biology path outside of academia
Erika Shugart shares her experiences moving from the lab to policy and communication.
- Nic Fleming
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Career Column |
Founding a global biotechnology summit — while pursuing a PhD
Ipshita Mandal-Johnson teamed up with other graduate students to set up an annual forum to develop tomorrow’s biotechnology leaders. This is what she learnt.
- Ipshita Mandal-Johnson
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Career Q&A |
Polar research should include Indigenous perspectives
Pat Wongpan explains why polar research must incorporate diverse views, including those of Indigenous peoples and communities affected by climate change.
- Virginia Gewin
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Career Column |
How those researching adaptation to climate change might reduce their own carbon footprints
Scientists who work with communities most affected by climate change might find it hard to adjust their air-travel habits, but they can still make meaningful changes, says David Samuel Williams.
- David Samuel Williams
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Career Column |
Seven steps to make travel to scientific conferences more sustainable
Researchers should learn to travel better to mitigate their climate impacts. Institutions can help by facilitating and rewarding sustainable travel behaviour, rather than fuelling the pressure to attend conferences, say Olivier Hamant, Timothy Saunders and Virgile Viasnoff.
- Olivier Hamant
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- & Virgile Viasnoff
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Career Column |
Put participants first in conference design
By using more sophisticated methods of thinking about conferences, organizers can help to ensure that time spent at a meeting is spent well, say Hannah Turbeville and Ruth Gotian.
- Hannah Turbeville
- & Ruth Gotian
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Nature Podcast |
Podcast: Modelling early embryos, and male-dominated conferences
Listen to the latest from the world of science, with Benjamin Thompson and Shamini Bundell.
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News Feature |
How to banish manels and manferences from scientific meetings
A Nature analysis finds that several fields of science are moving away from male-dominated conferences and panels — but it’s easy to slip back into old habits.
- Holly Else
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Career Guide |
How to organize a conference that’s open to everyone
Thinking about the needs of all participants is key to a successful event.
- Nic Fleming
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Correspondence |
Scientists must boost input into Sustainable Development Goals
- Teresa Stoepler
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- & Eva Alisic
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Career Column |
Three tips to avoid becoming a ‘conference zombie’
It’s tempting to try to attend sessions morning, noon and night, network like crazy during every ‘spare’ minute and drink vats of coffee to stay alert. Paris H. Grey has more realistic suggestions to get maximum value from any conference.
- Paris H. Grey