For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. ——Margaret Heffernan Conflicts in research groups are common…
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Early Career Research Community Conflicts didn’t kill me, but made me stronger
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Early Career Research Community Addressing the Mental Health Crisis among Doctoral Researchers, Part II
By Yorick Peterse, Jana Lasser, Giulia Caglio, Katarzyna Stoltmann, Dagmara Rusiecka and Martin Schmidt This is part II of a blog post…
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Early Career Research Community Addressing the Mental Health Crisis among Doctoral Researchers, Part I
By Yorick Peterse, Jana Lasser, Giulia Caglio, Katarzyna Stoltmann, Dagmara Rusiecka and Martin Schmidt Mental health issues Statistically, one in three people will…
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The Student Blog Meet Chintan Parmar: The Physics & Astronomy Category Recipient of the PLOS ONE Early Career Travel Award
The Physics & Astronomy Category Recipient of the PLOS ONE Early Career Travel Award in the Physical Sciences Is… post-info Thank…
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Early Career Research Community Married Scientists and the Name Change Dilemma
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 An Indian Scientist’s Journey in the USA
One fine morning during my postdoctoral stint at the University of Florida, while sipping a cup of tea during lunch, I unexpectedly…
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The Student Blog A Summer Science Reading List
I recognize that for many readers of this blog the concept of “summer vacation” no longer exists. Although graduate students are still…
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Early Career Research Community Serendipity and Biomechanics
by Thamarasee Maheshika Jeewandara An early career researcher’s path is not always well-defined. Sometimes at this juncture, observing the accidental career trajectories…
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Early Career Research Community Teaching is another way of learning: The rewards of being a teaching assistant
Jiao xue xiang zhang. (“Teaching benefits both teachers as well as students” in Chinese). ——Thirteen Classics Explanatory Notes and Commentaries ( shi…
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Early Career Research Community #MeToo has led to a reckoning in the Nobels and soon academia
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 I went to an open science hackathon and all I got was a t-shirt… and hope for the future of science
Last week I participated in the 2-day eLife Innovation Sprint. I knew the event was aimed at bringing together ‘computer people’ (programmers…
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The Student Blog The Best Advice I Ever Heard
Brief reflections on lessons learned from encounters with outstanding scientists in graduate school Now approaching the terminus of my time in graduate…