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The National Institutes of Health needs to make radical changes to ensure that biomedical research continues to thrive in the United States.

A systems-level analysis of the biomedical workforce in the US shows that current strategies to enhance faculty diversity are unlikely to have a significant impact, and that there is a need to increase the number of PhDs from underrepresented minority backgrounds who move on to postdoctoral positions.

There may be as many ways to think about the experience of women in science as there are women in science.

Open research practices bring significant benefits to researchers.

Disclosing work prior to submission to a journal would benefit scientists seeking to be acknowledged for their discoveries.

Recruiting PhD students can be a frustrating process, but Eve Marder looks forward to welcoming the latest crop in the autumn.

A university genomics class provides detailed examples of how to design and execute Oxford Nanopore MinION hackathons as part of an academic curriculum.

By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.

Increasing awareness that many causal links in biology might be bi-directional could overcome biases and improve scientific reasoning.

Cutting down on long-distance air travel is the best way to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by the scientific community.