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 Lessons from Blogging Relevant for COVID-19 CommunicationRead more
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Early Career Research Community ComSciConNY 2019: Competence, warmth, and knowing your audienceRead more
Have you ever found yourself listening to an academic lecture peppered with unfamiliar words, feeling a little clueless? God knows I have…
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Early Career Research Community Fixing the pipeline: Shirley Tilghman on the future of biomedical trainingRead more
We spend a lot of time here at PLOS ECR discussing the trials and triumphs of being an early career researcher. One…
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Early Career Research Community Science of Science Communication with Bruce LewensteinRead more
If you are a scientist, you have likely been confronted with the challenge of boiling down the work you do for various…
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Early Career Research Community ‘Stop Acting Like A Grad Student’: review of “The Professor Is In”Read more
Roughly two years ago, a postdoc in my lab recommended a book to me called, “The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide…
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Early Career Research Community Guest Post: Learning about preprints with PREreviewRead more
Editor’s note: Today on the blog we welcome a guest post by the PREreview Leadership Team, Daniela Saderi, Samantha Hindle, and Monica Granados. Their…
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Early Career Research Community Married Scientists and the Name Change DilemmaRead more
When scientists talk to each other, we end up referencing literature by tossing around names of authors and dates of publications. Our…
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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 #GradStudentTax: What it is and how it could impact you — Updated 12/21/17Read more
Update 12/21/17: Protests from graduate schools and their students had their intended effect, as the final version of this tax bill does…
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Early Career Research Community Grief in Graduate School: What You and Your School Can Do to HelpRead more
Recently I was scanning my lab notebook in our biosafety level 3 (BSL3) facility so that it would be electronically backed up…
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Early Career Research Community World TB Day: Examining the field as an ECR at KeystoneRead more
“Tuberculosis is still a thing? Didn’t we cure that already?” If you are studying tuberculosis (TB) for your graduate/postdoc career in the…
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Academia Grad School 101: What to do in year twoRead more
Congratulations, it’s your second year of graduate school! If your PhD program is similar to most you likely joined a lab over…