Dr Matthias Rillig gives advice for PhD students, postdocs and group leaders on how to navigate the various challenges that academia presents.
To better engage your audience, don’t use colours that clash or distract in your communications.
Diversity of input into science creates innovation, but this means you need to learn how to collaborate with people you don’t like.
Large language models can draft abstracts or suggest research directions, but these artificial-intelligence tools are a work in progress.
Need someone to give you time, money, advice or support? You need to know your pitch – a short snappy written or verbal communication. Watch these people attempt 1 min pitches.
There is growing evidence that Emoji can be useful in science communication.
Your brain has stored associations that help it to quickly answer questions. Impact on biases?
The world’s best leaders and visionaries earn trust with data told as a great story. Science and scientists have greater impact if they can do they same.
Become a paper-mill detective and use these 20 ways to help spot fakes.
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