I spent my adolescent years immersed in a suburban hometown teeming with engineers. They were all working tirelessly on designing omnipresent mobile…
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Early Career Research Community Lessons I have Learned as a MentorRead more
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Early Career Research Community Eureka? How to Maximize Your Ability to Make Scientific IdeasRead more
Eureka! It’s a timeless expression. Okay, it’s cliché. But we’ve all had an, “aha!” moment. Depending on your enthusiasm and the difficulty…
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Early Career Research Community A novel approach to COVID-19: A Q&A With Charit NarayananRead more
Last month, a PLOS ONE paper was added to PLOS’ COVID-19 Collection. What makes this paper a bit more noteworthy is its author. Charit Narayanan is a…
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Early Career Research Community Planning for future job-hunting during COVID-19Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic found me at the end of my PhD, and even though my graduation plans will be delayed, I will…
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Early Career Research Community Ph.D. Job Hunting in the Era of Covid-19, A PerspectiveRead more
Congratulations! If you’ve successfully defended your Ph.D. dissertation recently, you’ve probably heard this exclamation many times throughout the last couple of months…
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Early Career Research Community Absence makes the lab grow fonder: self-schooled graduate studies in the midst of Covid-19.Read more
Frozen samples, interrupted experiments, and forgotten GANTT charts. The sweeping coronavirus pandemic has rippled through education timelines and has left students uncertain…
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Early Career Research Community The benefit of science communication and science conference organization for graduate studentsRead more
Much effort is put into framing and conceptualizing the effective discussion of science and its relationship with society. To meet the increasing…
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Early Career Research Community Undusting microscopes and warming up fingers to pipette after a monthRead more
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic a lot of ECRs have been through a lot of ups and downs juggling between rearranging bench-based experiments and…
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Early Career Research Community Lessons from Blogging Relevant for COVID-19 CommunicationRead more
For a long time I didn’t feel like the end of my PhD was actually happening. Multiple times I’d drafted an outline…
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Early Career Research Community How advocacy in a time of crisis can improve the research enterpriseRead more
I’m a scientist who transitioned into science policy in the last several years. In my current position at the University of…
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Early Career Research Community Defending a Masters thesis during a pandemicRead more
The quarantine has taken something from everyone. For me, it was my defense. For two and a half years, I was a…
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Early Career Research Community Is it a transition or a continuation? From PhD student to Postdoc.Read more
I spent five and a half years to finish my master-PhD program and graduated in January 2019. Some graduates pursue to work…