title: Looking out for future scientists.
abstract: Proposals to reduce the number of students who do PhDs are misguided, writes Eve Marder, because they would exclude young scientists with qualities that do not show up in exam results and interviews.
authors.affiliation: 1Eve Marder is in the Department of Biology and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States.
authors.forename: Eve
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-5448
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marder
mesh_terms: D004500:Education, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000193:education*; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics; D012570:School Admission Criteria; D012586:Science / Q000193:education*
keywords: careers in science; grad school; living science; science policy and funding