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Nature.

Welcome back to the Nature podcast.

This week, the results of Nature's latest PhD survey

and the absence of older women in science fiction.

I'm Chamony Bandell.

And I'm Nick Howl.

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Speaking of surveys, this week, Nature is publishing the third in a series of features written about PhD students

based on the results of a survey of early career researchers.

Earlier this week, David Payne, Nature's chief careers editor, dropped into the studio for a chat

with Noah Baker to tell us more about the survey, the findings and what comes next.

Here's David.

Well, it's a survey that we run every two years. We've done it since 2011, so I think this is our fifth survey this year.

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