14  Day 14: Science Career Resources: Nature Careers, Science Careers

14.1 Topic of the Day

Science Career Resources: Nature Careers, Science Careers

14.2 Assigned Readings

  1. Time tracking for early-career researchers: a practical guide ↗
  2. Five reasons to do an internship during your PhD program ↗
  3. Overcoming my writing guilt: writing in lockdown ↗
  4. Design your own doctoral project ↗
  5. ‘Hard’ skills from our PhDs remain relevant beyond academia ↗
  6. Sell yourself and your science in a compelling personal statement ↗
  7. Boomerang academics: why we left academia for industry, but then came back ↗
  8. Why I use Notion to organize my PhD research ↗
  9. How mixing academia and industry opens doors in graduate school and beyond ↗
  10. PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs ↗
  11. The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention ↗
  12. What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision ↗
  13. Pay, perks and culture shocks: a toolkit for scientists moving to industry ↗
  14. Hunger on campus: why US PhD students are fighting over food ↗
  15. How to find, read and organize papers ↗
  16. The 100 memes that immortalize my PhD defense ↗
  17. Lab to clinic: building a culture of translation ↗
  18. 11 reasons why we’ve stayed in academia ↗
  19. How to network with the brightest minds in science ↗
  20. Stressed out by PhD life? Five strategies to take back the joy ↗
  21. Five important financial moves for PhD students ↗
  22. Three actions PhD-holders should take to land their next job ↗
  23. Why you should write your PhD thesis backwards ↗
  24. You’re only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD ↗
  25. PhD scientists who forged a career off the beaten track ↗
  26. Should I return to my home country after my PhD abroad? ↗

14.3 Assigned Listen

14.4 Assigned Watch

14.5 Career Highlight