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Standardizing the titles, terms and conditions under which postdocs are employed will benefit the biomedical research workforce.

What can institutions and funding agencies do to address an array of issues facing the biomedical research community in the United States?

Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences.

Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.

The views of peers are important when applying for a faculty position, but so are research plans and being a good 'fit'.

Funding agencies use many different criteria and peer review strategies to assess grant proposals.

Editors, reviewers and authors share their experiences of consultative peer review at eLife.

Scientific abstracts have become less readable over the past 130 years, in part because recent texts include more general scientific jargon than older texts.

Responsible agricultural practices provide a useful lens through which to consider the lives and careers of researchers.

Creativity in science requires the ability to recall information and data, and will suffer if we rely too much on technology to remember things for us.