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The problemDear Nature,I am a doctoral student coming to the end of my degree studying engineering safety, and I feel I’ve been left to do my…

Illustration: David ParkinsThe problemDear Nature,In December 2024, I finished my PhD in biomedical chemistry in Italy, and I now find myself in that all-too-familiar early-career crisis,…

Roughly 1.3 million international students and recent graduates enrolled in work training are in the United States for the 2025–26 academic year.Credit: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe/GettyInternational…

Many academic departments at US universities are planning to cut the size of graduate-student cohorts.Credit: Sophie Park/Bloomberg/GettyPhoenix-Avery Sarían has been interested in astronomy ever since her…

The United States has long been one of the most popular destinations for international students pursuing graduate studies. But pauses to some of the country’s university…

The professional-networking site LinkedIn can be useful for finding like-minded people around the globe.Credit: Yalcin Sonat/AlamyWhen I started my PhD in 2018, I thought LinkedIn was…

A quiet shift has taken place among Brazilian graduate-student researchers over the past year: many are giving up or postponing plans to work in the United…

Carys Herbert inspects a telescope used in citizen-science projects at the University of Kent’s Beacon Observatory in Canterbury, UK — while she also scans the horizon…