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 Podcasts – an underestimated tool of science communicationRead more
The last couple of years have seen a real surge of podcasts in many different genres and gladly this has also…
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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 PLOS ECR Editorial Summer reading listRead more
With summer and vacation upon us, we can finally catch up on some reading. For some reason, there is never enough…
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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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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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Early Career Research Community ECRs Reflect on Stephen HawkingRead more
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” –Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 This week the world…
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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…