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When Your Employer Is Evil
It can be uncomfortable to work for a company or institution with a bad reputation, but is it the wrong choice?
Take Your Potentially Reckless Child to Lab Day
Our columnist explores the value of letting kids explore the lab.
Sins of the Principal Investigator
Our columnist discusses the tricky situation that students face when their advisers do wrong.
Of Mice and Mics
Article for Science‘s “Working Life” column about being a scientist-comedian.
Book Review of Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race by Daniel J. Fairbanks
Book review in the Quarterly Review of Biology. This article is behind a paywall (because science), but if you’re at an institution with a subscription to QRB, you can read it for free.
Why We Need Another Einstein
Being the most famous scientist is a triumph within a non-dominant subset.
Yes, You’re a Great Scientist; Now Shut up about It
Scientists should acknowledge their imperfections, our columnist argues.
How to Read a Scientific Paper
Our columnist describes how he learned to read—and actually understand—journal articles.