As I have written elsewhere, inspiring people have the ability to change the course and intensity of your research area, in my…
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Early Career Research Community Kofi Annan 1938-2018: a guiding force for good and a role model for global healthRead more
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Early Career Research Community #MeToo has led to a reckoning in the Nobels and soon academiaRead more
In October 2016, in the midst of the Macchiarini scandal, one of us (Andreas) wrote a post of its effects on the reputation of…
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The Student Blog To Write or Not To Write? Pros and cons of blogging as an ECRRead more
If you’re reading our blog regularly, we imagine it’s likely that you’ve toyed with the idea of submitting a post yourself. But…
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Early Career Research Community Living in the age of emotions and a time of denial: A new year, a new beginning.Read more
With 2017 behind us, it feels appropriate to ponder on a phenomenon that has become increasingly present and problematic for early career…
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Early Career Research Community Editors’ Best Books for ECRsRead more
As grad students and researchers, we all have several books or at least one book in particular that has inspired us and stayed…
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Early Career Research Community Open Access Week 2017: It’s time to do something about predatory publishersRead more
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 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…