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Career Column |
How I harnessed media engagement to supercharge my research career
My initial exposure to the world’s media was serendipitous, but I’ve learnt to be proactive about it — and reaped the benefits.
- Ben Singh
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News |
Tweeting your research paper boosts engagement but not citations
Analysis of a random selection of papers shared on social media showed no causative link between posting and citations.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Research Briefing |
A delay that makes wireless communication faster
Cutting-edge communication (6G and beyond) will rely on precise time control of large amounts of wirelessly transferred information. To achieve this precision, a ‘quasi-true time delay’ chip has been designed that packs as much time delay as possible into a tiny area using 3D waveguides whose length can be varied as required.
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Career Column |
Divas, captains, ghosts, ants and bumble-bees: collaborator attitudes explained
Olga Lehmann made sense of challenges she faced in teamwork by analysing how she and her colleagues behaved and what she could have done differently.
- Olga Lehmann
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Career Column |
Three actions PhD-holders should take to land their next job
A hiring manager reveals the lessons he learnt when transitioning from a PhD programme to industry.
- Fawzi Abou-Chahine
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Career Q&A |
This geologist communicates science from the ski slopes
How Karin Kirk finds a balance between twin careers of science writing and skiing instruction.
- Miles Lizak
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Career Feature |
‘A beautiful way of saying a lot’: sign language brings benefits to the organic chemistry classroom
Christina Goudreau Collison works with Deaf students to develop clear signs for organic chemistry terms — which could also help students with non-conventional learning needs.
- Jyoti Madhusoodanan
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Career Feature |
Communication barriers for a Deaf PhD student meant risking burnout
Megan Majocha is gearing up to complete her PhD. But developing a sign-language lexicon to help her succeed took an immense toll during her scientific research.
- Jyoti Madhusoodanan
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Career Feature |
What’s the sign for ‘centrifuge’? How we added scientific terms to Indian Sign Language
Molecular biologist Alka Rao brought together her research group and sign-language specialists to broaden access to science for deaf students in India.
- Deepa Padmanaban
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Article
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Online images amplify gender bias
We find that gender bias is more prevalent in images than text, that the underrepresentation of women online is substantially worse in images and that googling for images amplifies gender bias in a person’s beliefs.
- Douglas Guilbeault
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- & Ethan Nadler
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Career Q&A |
Passion, curiosity and perseverance: my mission to capture women in science on camera
Genetics researcher Elisabetta Citterio explains why she felt compelled to photograph 57 women who work in STEM fields.
- Josie Glausiusz
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Career Feature |
How sharing your science in an opinion piece can boost your career
Don’t rely solely on academic papers to raise your professional profile. General readers are interested in your opinions, too.
- Jane Palmer
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Article
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Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity
Searching online to evaluate the truthfulness of false news articles increases the probability of believing the false news articles.
- Kevin Aslett
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News |
Microbiologist who was harassed during COVID pandemic sues university
At the heart of a New Zealand court case is the extent to which talking to the public constitutes an academic’s duty to society.
- Bianca Nogrady
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Comment |
Disaster early-warning systems can succeed — but collective action is needed
From floods to wildfires, and tsunamis to volcanic eruptions, early-warning systems can stop natural hazards becoming human disasters. But more joined-up thinking is urgently needed.
- Andrew C. Tupper
- & Carina J. Fearnley
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World View |
The new Twitter is changing rapidly — study it before it’s too late
Social-media researchers overemphasized the platform now called X for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new and frightening, we risk paying too little attention.
- Mike Caulfield
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Career Q&A |
‘I remind people all the time that science can wait’
Christopher Reddy helped to quantify the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a stressful experience that changed his view of what it means to be a well-rounded scientist and person.
- Katherine Bourzac
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News |
Why Japan is building its own version of ChatGPT
Some Japanese researchers feel that AI systems trained on foreign languages cannot grasp the intricacies of Japanese language and culture.
- Tim Hornyak
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Article
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Identifying attacks in the Russia–Ukraine conflict using seismic array data
Analysis of seismic waves caused by explosions in northern Ukraine recorded by a local network in 2022 demonstrated the ability to automatically identify individual attacks during the Russia–Ukraine conflict in close to real time.
- Ben D. E. Dando
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- & Alexander Liashchuk
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Nature Video |
Mind-reading computers turn brain activity into speech
Algorithms trained to associate sounds with neural activity can give people back their voice
- Shamini Bundell
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Spotlight |
How virtual reality is helping to boost scientific engagement in rural Africa
Immunologist Patience Kiyuka explains her use of the latest technologies to show young people what it is like to be a researcher and what science can do for society.
- Rachael Pells
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News Feature |
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty
A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.
- Myriam Vidal Valero
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Article
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Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
A large-scale field intervention experiment on 23,377 US Facebook users during the 2020 presidential election shows that reducing exposure to content from like-minded social media sources has no measurable effect on political polarization or other political attitudes and beliefs.
- Brendan Nyhan
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- & Joshua A. Tucker
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Correspondence |
Data sharing: putting Nature’s policy to the test
- Xiwei Chen
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- & David B. Allison
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Career Feature |
How to create a lab-group logo that stands out from the crowd
An eye-catching logo says a lot about your lab’s research, workplace culture and collaborative potential. Take time to get it right.
- Andy Tay
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Where I Work |
This activist-academic has a passion for podcasts
Anthropologist Nosipho Mngomezulu finds podcasting an authentic, immediate way to reach an audience.
- Linda Nordling
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Career Feature |
How to hatch, brew and craft the perfect maths partnership
Mathematicians and their collaborators discuss the joys and challenges of working together on projects in science and the arts.
- Rachel Crowell
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Correspondence |
ChatGPT: standard reporting guidelines for responsible use
- Giovanni E. Cacciamani
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- & Inderbir S. Gill
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News & Views |
From the archive: foods of the future and cryptography secrets
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Career Column |
Equity is more than a buzzword
Departments and principal investigators must do the hard, uncomfortable work to cultivate truly inclusive, safe environments, says Ashley Paynter.
- Ashley Paynter
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Article |
Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search
Ecologically valid data collected during the 2018 and 2020 US elections show that exposure to and engagement with partisan or unreliable news on Google Search are driven not primarily by algorithmic curation but by users’ own choices.
- Ronald E. Robertson
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Book Review |
Is the biggest challenge to scientific thinking science itself?
Data torturing, cherry-picking, P-hacking and the invention of tools such as ChatGPT — when it comes to assisting the spread of disinformation science is its own worst enemy, argues a new book.
- Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
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Career Q&A |
How I fused passions for art and medicine into a medical illustration career
Hillary Wilson contends that medicine needs more-diverse artwork from illustrators who bring varied perspectives.
- Abdullahi Tsanni
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Career Column |
How I found a broader impact as a PhD student through podcasting
I’ve learnt new skills and communicated science further afield through my immunology podcast, Inflammatory Content, says Kellen Cavagnero.
- Kellen J. Cavagnero
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Career Feature |
Leaving academia for industry? Here’s how to handle salary negotiations
Don’t sell yourself short when talking about pay, annual leave and other benefits, say scientists who have made the move.
- Sarah Wild
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Career Column |
How not to chatter like a toddler when giving a scientific presentation
Are we hardwired to overstuff presentations with details? Four simple steps can overcome this tendency, says David Rubenson.
- David Rubenson
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Career Q&A |
How a lab visit for people with neurological conditions inspired the global Pint of Science festival
Co-founder Praveen Paul describes how she went from neuroscientist to running an annual event across 26 countries.
- Eleanor Lawrence
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Career Column |
Five things I wish academia understood about my social anxiety
I’ve learnt to overcome some aspects of my social anxiety, but I hope sharing my experiences can help others recognize the difficulties faced by scientists like me.
- Lydia Wong
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Correspondence |
Arctic science: resuming action without Russia
- Jan Pisek
- , Oliver Sonnentag
- & Torben R. Christensen
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Career Column |
Creating YouTube and TikTok videos is improving my lab leadership
Matthias Rillig’s foray into film-making has helped him to identify the research and management skills he needs to work on.
- Matthias C. Rillig
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Technology Feature |
These tools help visually impaired scientists read data and journals
Innovative software and modes of presentation are helping to broaden access to the literature.
- Alla Katsnelson
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Career Q&A |
Why science needs a protein emoji
Emojis are part of a science communicator’s arsenal. Computational chemist Andrew White describes how and why he submitted an application.
- Andy Tay
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Nature Podcast |
Nature's Take: How Twitter's changes could affect science
Nature staff take on the big topics that matter in science.
- Nick Petrić Howe
- , Anne Marie Conlon
- & Michael White
‘Shrugging off failure is hard’: the $400-million grant setback that shaped the Smithsonian lead scientist’s career