My English skills are hurting my chances in academic publishing — how can I improve?

Illustration: David Parkins The problem Dear Nature , I’m a biologist originally from India doing my postdoc at a German institution, and I aspire to run my own laboratory one day. However, because I’m from a Hindi-speaking background, navigating the English-dominated scientific-publishing world has been challenging. Some years ago, my former supervisor and I submitted a paper to a small, low-tier journal and it was immediately rejected on the grounds that the English was not good enough. …