Derek Attig provides tips for keeping track of both important information and your time. More...

How do you prepare to teach such a class, a junior professor asks -- especially if you'd never have suggested offering it in the first place. More...

Jennifer Polk and L. Maren Wood suggest three ways to rebrand yourself for a nonacademic career. More...

Raymonda Burgman recommends using an organizational concept to help break out of predictable thinking that may keep you in something of a rut. More...

Cathy Mazak explores the lies one can tell oneself when allowing an academic job to be all consuming. More...

Students and postdocs generally lack confidence in their own abilities, writes Joseph Barber, or at least lack practice in communicating those abilities to others. More...

Scott McLemee evaluates international research -- and the resulting attention -- focused on the gender gap in the publication of articles in academic journals. More...

Colleges must understand their distinct needs and consider creative ways to lend support, write Merav Fine Braun and Jenna Citron. More...

The 50th anniversary of a protest by scientists against the Vietnam War makes this an opportune time to reflect on that activism and the position of science then and now, writes Alan Chodos. More...