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Academics share tips for first-time university lecturers

A Nature feature collects advice from ten PhD students, postdocs and faculty on preparing for a first university lecture, noting that most doctoral programs emphasize research over teaching skills. Geneticist Ľubomír Tomáška recounts losing his class's attention within ten minutes during his own debut lecture decades ago, despite thorough subject knowledge.

Nature to host webinar on AI's impact on PhD training

Nature's careers team is organizing a 60-minute webinar examining how doctoral programmes are adjusting to the growing use of AI tools among graduate students, who increasingly rely on them for literature searches, coding, presentations and summarizing papers. Three panellists will discuss the benefits of AI in research alongside concerns that it may weaken essential skills PhD training is meant to instill.