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Those TAs with Thick Accents

Progress has been made in recent decades on ensuring that foreign graduate students at American universities have sufficient facility in the English language that they're most likely to be teaching in. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), or the comparable IELTS exam,...

Just Herself

“One of my formative experiences in Karachi happened when, as a 10-year-old, I would take my bicycle to the bike repair shop right outside our apartment compound,” the scientist recalls. “Rather than just repairing my bike for me, the man at the shop taught me...

Space Cadet

In 2011, I wrote about microbiologist Kate Rubins, PI at the Whitehead Institute, who was picked to be AsCan (Astronaut Candidate). She trained for 2 years, got a chance to go to the International Space Station and is now back on earth. Ed Yong interviews...

Making Each Other More Human

A husband and a wife working in the same scientific discipline are ideally positioned to be collaborators, but aligning ambitions in the professional niche of fundamental research is seldom easy: Institutions must accommodate not just one scientist but a pair. And once a...

Scientist Dads Step Up

The Human Genome Project officially came to a close in June 2003. For Chad Nusbaum, co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, the event was a professional milestone....

Time to Hire A Housekeeper?

This article made the Best of Science Careers 2010. It stirred up a lot of debate and readers pretty much demanded the follow-up which was fun to write. When Carol Greider, a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, learned that she had...