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How sharing your science in an opinion piece can boost your career

Don’t rely solely on academic papers to raise your professional profile. General readers are interested in your opinions, too.
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  1. Jane Palmer

    1. Jane Palmer is a freelance journalist in Colorado.

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Devang Mehta wrote his first opinion piece in 2017 for online magazine Slate when he was a graduate student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (see go.nature.com/3rf7lwt). It had the provocative title, ‘Nobel Prizes Should Reward Science, Not Scientists’. Since then, he has written more than a dozen others for publications including Massive Science, Salon and Nature.

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Nature 625, 205-206 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04091-2

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