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Career paths: Where are they now?

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Despite obstacles, many of those who kept Naturejobs postdoc and graduate journals in the past six years have been successful — but not always in ways they had anticipated.

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Smaglik, P. Career paths: Where are they now?. Nature 469, 121–123 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7328-121a

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