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Around one in three respondents to Nature’s global postdoc survey are using AI chatbots to help to refine text, generate or edit code, wrangle the literature in their field and more.
The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding.
Postdoctoral researchers still feel as though they are academia’s drudge labourers, but have more confidence about job prospects in a post-pandemic world.
Geochemist Charles Balagizi monitors water safety and volcanic activity in a region where violence is common. The deaths of colleagues means he never assumes an area is safe.
Amy Ko’s accident gave her an insight into the degree to which her discipline caters mainly to non-disabled people, reinspiring her to invent more accessible programming languages.
In the light of US court rulings on racism in science and affirmative action in higher education, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans is ever more important.