Ask Alice

My adviser doesn’t let his postdocs work on independent projects. What should I do?

A soft-money professor encounters interference from a department chair; does a lawsuit make sense?

In an American lab full of foreign scientists, German is the lingua franca.

Alice, how can I get started as a scientific journal editor?

I presented my research proposal with my adviser’s blessing—but it wasn’t approved and I was forced out of the program. What should I do?

Help me Alice; I don’t belong here!

Should a not-yet-tenured faculty member at a top university take on a new project to help women succeed?

An academic career isn’t easy to achieve—but it’s worth it, so keep striving.

It’s not a good idea for new faculty members to pick fights with well-funded senior investigators.

Things aren’t going well for me. What should I do?

What nonresearch jobs are out there for a pharmaceutical science Ph.D., and how should I prepare for them?

I don’t want to teach, and I no longer love research. Should I quit my Ph.D. program?

Am I too old to get started on the neuroscience career I always wanted?

For some areas of science, it’s important not to be in too much of a hurry.

Should I leave science?

I’d like to move to the United States and start working in a new field. Can you help?