For a long time, academia has been the default career choice for postdocs and PhD students, but it seems this is slowly changing. Here, I talk about why this has been the default in the first place, how you can overcome this, and what you and labs can do.
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Matthias Rillig, professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin, talks about life in academia.
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