Career Feature, Career Column, Career News and Career Brief in 2023

The mascot for King’s College London helped Andrés Gvirtz to teach a class, with a little help from generative artificial intelligence.

John Tregoning compares academia to role-playing video games as a way to discuss how the choices we make can affect the paths we take.

India’s first Moon landing and a welcome return to Horizon Europe for UK researchers loomed large in an eventful year for working scientists around the world.

It’s tough out there, but career experts discuss how applicants can stand out from the crowd.

Three researchers who went out on a limb to bridge a gap in their field talk to Nature about how and why they went about designing their own, unique devices — and the challenges involved.

From rugby refereeing to film and television work, a poll reveals scientists’ first jobs and what they learnt from them.

Find time to kill tasks that aren’t progressing, and beware taking on ones with unrealistic deadlines or deliverables.

Specialists share how to make the experience more enjoyable and foster a sense of belonging.

RNA biologist Vivian Cheung accuses the institute of discrimination after it decided not to renew her funding.

Students value being taught by real-life scientists with lived experience of life in the lab, say researchers who switched career.

Innovation straddles policy, change management, budgeting, negotiating and influencing skills. Researchers need all these and more, says David Bogle.

With quantum technologies heading for the mainstream, undergraduate courses are preparing the workforce of the future.

A refusal to fly to Papua New Guinea for fieldwork took Gianluca Grimalda the long way across 22,000 kilometres and 12 countries.

Landing tenure is a pipe dream for most postdoctoral researchers. They need business skills to help them thrive outside academia.

A career leap into the unknown can be unsettling, but you can take steps to ease the transition.

Parents are pushing for employers to respect family time and keep meetings strictly to working hours.

Four researchers offer tips for excelling in interdisciplinary training.

Maya Gosztyla describes the database tool as a ‘second brain’, helping her to coordinate her work.

Temporary contracts, low salaries and cost-of-living hikes force many researchers to put off parenthood and other big decisions.