Towards openness With autumn finally upon us or fast approaching (at least here in Sweden) we have seen several important scientific…
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Early Career Research Community Open Access Week 2018: time to stand up for scienceRead more
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Early Career Research Community Escape from the ivory tower: why sharing your knowledge with the surrounding society is more than a mission, it’s a necessityRead more
Quite recently I had the privilege of attending the 6th international conference on Preventing Overdiagnosis in Copenhagen. Since this subject is…
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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
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 #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…