1+ hour, 18+ min ago  (355+ words) Risk assessments and flexible working policies all provide valuable support " but how proactively this is offered varies greatly Source: Courtesy of Anna Slater Anna Slater couldn't find much information about pregnancy in the lab 11 years ago " an experience still reported…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (254+ words) Staff at the University of Sheffield's chemistry department have been told that 20% of the faculty could be made redundant, with a similar proportion of materials scientists also at risk. The university says that the reductions are needed as it seeks…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago  (680+ words) What Lavoisier can teach you about career development Florian Bay's career has been one of transformation thanks to chemistry, data science and public speaking (among other things) Nowadays, portfolio careers are becoming more common and working for the same company…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago  (266+ words) Navigating a safe career path can come at the cost of narrowing the scope of a field But defaulting to familiar questions narrows the intellectual space of our field. Collectively, we risk becoming extremely efficient at asking only those questions…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (294+ words) How well an early-career researcher does depends a lot upon on their supervisor A team of researchers based in Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia and the UK initially sent out over 77, 000 online surveys to predoctoral, postdoctoral and former researchers between December…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago  (11+ words) How much history should there be in science education? Chemistry World...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (598+ words) Academic freedom is under pressure all around the world Academic freedom continues to decline globally, with a marked fall in the US, according to the 2026 update to the Academic Freedom Index. The index revealed that over the last decade academic…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (150+ words) Age limits on funding and recruitment programmes place unhelpful pressures on early-career researchers The path to a research career in China is easier to traverse if you hit age-based milestones The influence of age thresholds is particularly visible in the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (318+ words) There are many benefits to participating in extracurricular activities with colleagues Sarah Jenkinson, an organic chemistry lecturer at the University of Oxford, UK, was asked to start a departmental choir in 2012, soon after Gareth Malone's TV series The Choir: Sing…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (252+ words) After three relentless undergraduate years, the fourth year provided space to immerse myself'in the subject The wave of relief I felt after leaving my final third year exam is still ingrained in my memory. But that wasn't related to how…...