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Building a sustainable career in science

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the postdocs and faculty at Rockefeller University for participating in their survey. We thank David Roth for discussions. The postdoc retreat was organized by the Rockefeller Univeristy Post-Doctoral Association.

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  1. Aakanksha Singhvi and Pallavi Sachdev are at Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.,

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Singhvi, A., Sachdev, P. Building a sustainable career in science. Nat Biotechnol 28, 378–379 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0410-378

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