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Emerging network of resources for exploring paths beyond academia

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An expanding collection of resources is helping trainees acquire important knowledge about careers outside academia.

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Figure 1: Emerging organization of resources across several domains.

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We would like to thank M. Guha, G. Pierre-Louis and J. Livengood for providing critical feedback on the manuscript. We also thank V.K. Haftel for helpful discussions.

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  1. Fanuel Muindi & Joseph B. Keller are in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Muindi, F., Keller, J. Emerging network of resources for exploring paths beyond academia. Nat Biotechnol 33, 775–778 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3282

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