Part one of this article ended with a discussion of politics in your department. We hope you have considered the questions and the implications of the answers.

To address what they call persistent gender, racial, and ethnic bias in academia, scholars at Skidmore College and Yale and Leiden universities have recommended specific, rigorous interventions that lead to positive outcomes.

Pittcon Solicits 2015 Call for Nominations for Awards in Areas of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy.

Fine-grained research shows boost for leading-edge and low-profile work in the life sciences happens after authors are honored.

Researchers have found that exercise plays a role in how individuals feel they can manage their work-life balance.

Four Berkeley Lab researchers receive recognition for their work.

January 7, 2014 — (BRONX, NY) — More women are choosing science careers, yet women are notoriously underrepresented in senior academic positions — often because they abandon their careers due to pessimism about advancement. New research suggests that putting more women in decision-making roles on the teams that organize symposia could offer a simple, effective step forward.

19 December 2013: Boston, MA: 908 Devices, an innovator in point-of-need chemical analysis, is delighted to announce that M908, the world’s first and only handheld high pressure mass spectrometer, has been voted first place winner in The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2013. The awards select a single winner and recognize a short-list of the top 15 advances from across the broad field of analytical sciences.

ASCB To Announce First Kaluza Prize Winner.

The most tweeted peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2012, and the trends associated with their social media success, have been identified by Stefanie Haustein at the University of Montreal's School of Library and Information Science.

Two exceptional research images captured at Indiana University’s Light Microscopy Imaging Center are among the 15 finalists in the international GE Healthcare Life Sciences 2013 Cell Imaging Competition. The IU center won the competition last year with an image of a dividing mammalian cell and could do so again if enough votes from scientists and the public are cast online by the Dec. 20 competition deadline.

We first discussed the impact of social media on the sciences in April, 2011. Then, 100 percent of lab managers admitted to never having used flickr and over 80 percent hadn’t opened a Facebook account. Revisiting the topic in September 2012, we said that getting a grip on social media remained a challenge. “Untamed and unpredictable, it rolls like a cyber tsunami, sweeping and reordering the communication landscape.” This month we return to the topic again and, wow, what a difference 15 months can make.