Since the pandemic began in early 2020, my scientific life – like many others – changed a lot. I lost my motivation…
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Scientists for Open Science A virtual science conference is nothing like a physical oneRead more
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Academia I’m not a quitter, but I quit – leaving a postdoc position during difficult timesRead more
The most important lesson I learnt from my postdoc career up until now is that there is no best lab nor best mentor…
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COVID-19 Doing both COVID-19 and non-COVID research simultaneously during lockdownRead more
I cannot believe a whole year has gone by since lockdown last March. All of a sudden, non-essential should work from home…
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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…
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Early Career Research Community Poster session, the Most Learnable Part in a Scientific Conference, a Mutual Learning ModeRead more
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It’s a way of thinking – Carl Sagan As I was surfing the Internet on…
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Early Career Research Community Conflicts didn’t kill me, but made me strongerRead more
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. ——Margaret Heffernan Conflicts in research groups are common…
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Early Career Research Community Teaching is another way of learning: The rewards of being a teaching assistantRead more
Jiao xue xiang zhang. (“Teaching benefits both teachers as well as students” in Chinese). ——Thirteen Classics Explanatory Notes and Commentaries ( shi…
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Early Career Research Community I survived giving my first large conference talk as a PhD studentRead more
When I was in the middle of designing my poster, an email from the organizers of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory‘s Asia Conference…
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