image: Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, DSc (hon).
Credit: Agapito Sanchez Jr, Baylor College of Medicine (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Many young and midcareer scientists in the U.S. are understandably anxious about potential cuts to government funding and the rise of junk science. Although your future in biomedicine may not be what you originally planned, it might actually become more interesting and filled with new possibilities and opportunities for innovation. Don’t think of this time to hunker down and disappear. Do the opposite with the understanding that you are more powerful and brilliant than you may realize.
In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Biology: https://plos.io/4bF93zK
Article title: Navigating your US bioscience career into the 2030s
Author countries: United States
Funding: The author received no specific funding for this work.
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PLOS Biology
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