Only a small percentage of today's life sciences postdocs will ever attain the independent academic research career to which most aspire. (sciencemag.org)
The minority of respondents who had left academia reported doing so mainly due to obstacles inherent to the current system of academic research careers, not lack of desire. (sciencemag.org)
Whatever the stage of graduate training, none of the proposed career paths were found to be unpopular — not even academic research careers. (sciencemag.org)