Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard of or…
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Early Career Research Community Open Access Week 2017: It’s time to do something about predatory publishersRead more
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Early Career Research Community A simple “nudge” goes a long way: The right to childcare and preschool benefitsRead more
I have previously written about the challenge of combining research and parenthood and the benefits of parental leave from my perspective as…
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Early Career Research Community Science and Parenting: The challenge of combining research and family as an ECRRead more
In a previous post, I wrote about the value of parental benefits as an ECR from a Swedish perspective, since the right to be able…
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Early Career Research Community Precision medicine and genomics: an opportunity to improve public health?Read more
Today, healthcare is portrayed as standing at a crossroads. Precision medicine (also referred to as genomic, personal or individualized medicine) is expected…
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Academia The home of the Nobel: who will blow the whistle on academia?Read more
Sweden has been in the limelight for the past few weeks as the Nobel Prizes were announced and a new cohort of laureates…
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Early Career Research Community The benefit of being a parent: why parental leave is more than a perk. It’s a necessityRead more
I recently became a father to a beautiful little girl. As an ECR and first time parent living in Sweden, this means…
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Early Career Research Community “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”: Soda tax, public health and the prevention of diabetesRead more
For those of you who missed it, the Speaking of Medicine ran in July a four week special in relation to the…
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Early Career Research Community The not-so-innocent LEGO brickRead more
When I think of the Danish company LEGO, the first image that comes to mind is their classical LEGO brick, and I…
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The Student Blog Wake up and smell the coffee: Climate change and coffee productionRead more
Formerly known as the “devil’s drink,” coffee is increasingly being viewed as an “elixir of life”. Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to…
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Global Health WHO will lead and who will pay? The World Health Organization, Ebola and the future of global healthRead more
By Andreas Vilhelmsson When the Ebola virus disease epidemic hit West Africa in late 2013, nobody could imagine that just a year…