Do You Wanna Be a VAP?
A visiting assistant professor position can be a step forward--but only if you intend to pursue a career focused on teaching.

Tooling Up: Review Your Career
Think you have a nice, stable career in front of you? Then it's time to shake things up with a career review.

Science Careers Seeks Bloggers
We're looking for a few good women--and men--with something interesting to say about their careers in science and the skill to say it well.

Courting Controversy: Out of the Mainstream
Science's Gonzo Scientist profiles William Sims Bainbridge, a sociologist and NSF program officer who doesn't shy away from controversial topics.

Courting Controversy: Animal Rights (and Wrongs)
For scientists, working with laboratory animals can be a source of public antagonism and private ambivalence.

Student/Postdoc Morale Poll
How do you feel about your long-term professional prospects?

Deadline Watch
The Deadline Watch provides due dates to apply for upcoming research funding, scholarship, fellowship, and internship programs in GrantsNet.

Funding News
The Funding News provides the latest index of research funding, scholarships, fellowships, and internships for faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Educated Woman, Postdoc Edition, Chapter 17: End of the Road
After more than 6 years of monthly columns and postgraduate research, Micella Phoenix DeWhyse celebrates her Independence Day--and we're sad.