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 Editors’ Best Books for ECRsRead more
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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…
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Early Career Research Community 15 Tips for Improving Your Writing in Graduate SchoolRead more
A few weeks ago I submitted an application for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research…
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Early Career Research Community A scientist’s attempt to help: Round-up of open access blogs and journal articles on gun violenceRead more
Updated March 8, 2018: On February 14, 2018, 17 people were killed and 16 more were wounded in an active shooting incident…
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PLoS Pathogens and Defense: Speakers recap from the 6th EMBO MeetingRead more
By Meredith Wright From September 5-8, scientists converged on Birmingham, UK for the 6th European Molecular Biology Organization Meeting. EMBO is an…
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Bacteria Legionnaire’s in 2015: Cutting Edge Research Clashing with Public Health UnpreparednessRead more
By Meredith Wright In 1976, the American Legion, a veterans group still active today, met in Philadelphia, PA for a three-day convention…