A Natural Scientist

The very intelligent and determined Biochem Belle recently posted a link to Jo Handelsman's depressing study on gender bias  among scien...

There I was, with a fancy job in Big Industry. The first few months, in which I learned to build a bicycle starting with ore and a furnace...

So there I was, bored as anything, thinking that maybe a job would be nice. I applied to all the biotech companies in the area. One offered...

Say it, sisters. Science PhD and postdoc training is not all it's cracked up to be: For the great majority, becoming a scientist now ent...

Science editing! It seemed like a good idea at the time. I looked at science editing jobs. By now I was married, and had a spouse to consi...

Academia! There are very few other professions where one is paid peanuts to work 60-hour weeks for ten years (scientists) or six-to-eight-t...

Every so often, I hear a sweet young thing say something like this: I just love [French/Psychiatry/Science/Research]! I really want to go t...