This morning I read the blog at Small Pond Science entitled "Really, faculty jobs in teaching-focused institutions are not inherently...

A few weeks ago, I attended my Canadian citizenship ceremony. Applying for citizenship, learning the history and attending the ceremony,...

Fakery. Confabulation. Malingering. Denial. Lies. The English language has around 112 words to express deception in one form or another....

I got nominated! This is pretty amazing! For starters, I don't blog that often, I don't have thousands of followers on Twitter and I am...

Many people publish a Shadow CV of sorts, including Jeremy Fox at Dynamic Ecology and Manu Saunders at Ecology is not a dirty word....

Over the years I have seen a number of friends/colleagues suffer through tough times, uncertainty and poor mental health. We all know...

You’re at a conference volunteering at a career information session for graduates and postgraduates. You sit as part of a panel of...

This is not a blog that tells you how to do well in an interview. Those can be found in many other places (e.g. here and here). Rather,...

It’s a common question. A REALLY common question! Many countries throughout Europe and the Southern Hemisphere (e.g., Australia, New...

By Jasmine Janes, Manu Saunders and Sean Tomlinson Last month we posted a two-part blog post about the peer review of grants. In part one...

In case you missed it, or in case you forgot, here is a list of the questions that we asked regarding the grant application review...

By Dr Jasmine Janes, Dr Manu Saunders & Dr Sean Tomlinson Yesterday we asked if peer review in funding circles was biased, particularly...

By Dr Jasmine Janes, Dr Manu Saunders & Dr Sean Tomlinson The current system of peer reviewing grant proposals is recent, relative to...

As a postdoc/grad student/ECR, have you ever wished that you could work from home on a regular basis? You have probably done this a few...

It was back to the usual ‘new move’ routine – try to make friends, try to find collaborators, try to find funding sources, try to...

That familiar twinge of excitement that comes with the prospect of starting a new position in a new institution was back! This time I was...

After a few months of living in your new home you get comfortable and develop a routine. You buy all those necessary little items, and...

People complain about moving all the time. It’s stressful, it’s inconvenient, it can be expensive. Usually, these people are moving a few...

In 2011 I was in a bad position. My ‘guaranteed’ five-year position fell short when yet another CO2 tank failed on a FACE (climate...

Most days I feel a little like Lonesome George. You know, the tortoise that had no mate or friends. (My friend working on Galapagos...