28 Insanely Useful Websites to Build an Amazing Career

Unsure where your career is going, whether you should stay in academia or move on, what your options are, how to secure funding, struggling to write effectively or get published? These are among some of the most common questions posed by the BB community. These questions are potentially life altering, challenging and complex issues that … Read more

Should I Be an Academic?

This is one of the most common questions that people reach out to me with. It seems many early career researchers are trying to decide if they should pursue academia as a long-term career option. Lots of researchers aspire to obtaining a permanent academic position and achieve a lab of their own, but most also … Read more

5 Salary Negotiation Tips for Life Scientists

As a Brit who worked for much of their early career life as an academic in the UK, salary negotiation (rightly or wrongly) was not something I felt was directly applicable to me when accepting a job offer. Salaries for public sector UK workers are defined on a scale, commonly referred to as the spine … Read more