In the traditional academic career path, a bachelor’s degree leads to graduate school, a Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellowship, a junior faculty position and, finally, tenure. Yet increasing competition for lab positions and funding, among other motivations, has nudged many junior researchers onto roads that lead to alternative careers, from industry and nonprofit work to art and writing.

We asked several former life-sciences researchers why they left academia — and how science continues to inform their career.

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