On the grapevine
All alone?
Politics decides, and doctorates make you lonely. Two comments from the world of science.
“Are we all doomed to loneliness?”
The PhD student Jolene Tan left Singapore to undertake her doctoral studies in Australia. But she felt alone there – not just because of the strange environment, but because of the competitive, judgemental culture at her university. In an article in Nature, she describes what young researchers like her can do to help themselves.
“Never forget that science analyses, politics decides”
Peter Gluckman from New Zealand is the President of the International Science Council. In the French magazine La Recherche, Gluckman comments on how politics and science can work together. He is convinced that “[p]oliticians can handle uncertainty, often better than scientists themselves”.
