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2 days ago | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
Researchers in the United States are seeking career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump’s administration slashes science funding and workforce numbers, finds an analysis of Nature’s jobs-board data. Data from the Nature Careers global science jobs platform show that US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024. At the same time, the number of US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%.
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1 month ago | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
Entries are now open for Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. Capture a moment in your working day on camera for the chance to win a £500 cash prize (or local-currency equivalent) and the opportunity to see your winning image appear in print and online as part of the magazine’s Careers section. To enter, simply take a photo that conveys the essence of your research focus and submit it to [email protected].
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
At a facility on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, women are fighting budget cuts and inequality in the workplace. In November 2023, after a gruelling and unusual election campaign, Argentina’s then president-elect, Javier Milei, took the stage in Buenos Aires to deliver a raucous victory speech. In it, he vowed to end an age of government spending “decadence” and to tackle the huge economic problems the country faced.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
“In this photograph, I’m installing a chlorophyll fluorometer into a Scots pine tree (Pinus sylvestris) at a forest station in Hyytiälä, Finland, which is 200 kilometres north of the main campus at the University of Helsinki. I’m 20 metres above the ground, on a scaffold. The tool records the light emitted by leaves or needles in the far-red part of the spectrum. Almost every chlorophyll-containing organism creates this light.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
Do you have a favourite tool or workaround that helps you save time, money or drudgery? Share it with Nature’s readers.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
This week, when students brush their teeth, pack their bags and walk down Cottingham Road to reach the University of Hull’s chemistry building, it will be with more than the usual sense of trepidation that often accompanies the first day of lectures. Staff members at the UK university, founded in 1927 in what was then a thriving industrial city, were told about the planned closure of its chemistry department in June.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
“Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are complex creatures, which is part of what makes them so interesting to me. Every breeding season there are four generations of these butterflies. Three live for only a few weeks, but the fourth survives for six to nine months. Some of this generation emerge from their chrysalises here in Queens, New York City, in September or October. They then begin a long migration to Mexico, before restarting their generational cycle and heading north in March or April.
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May 20, 2024 | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
“It’s dirty, hot work picking up blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). They like murky water, and you need special clothing and equipment to wade through the swampy lagoon here in the Palud – Palù ornithological reserve in Pula, Croatia. It was the end of a long day in September last year when this photo was taken, and I was hot and sweaty under that special clothing.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
Nature’s Where I Work photo-essay section has profiled more than 200 scientists so far, working in settings that range from Vatican City to the University of the West Indies. Now, 50 of the published images are appearing in an outdoor public exhibition in London. The selection of portraits, which are also collated online, features working researchers in diverse and important fields. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Argent, a retail-management company based in London.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
nature.com | Jack Leeming
To lay eggs, Clanwilliam sandfish (Labeo seeberi) swim upstream to gentler, shallower tributaries of the Doring/Olifants river system in the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Local people say it was once an epic event: the water seemed to change colour as thousands of sandfish migrated upstream. Now, however, those numbers have shrunk to dangerous levels. That’s where I come in.
