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 #MeToo has led to a reckoning in the Nobels and soon academiaRead more
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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 scienceRead more
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 HeardRead more
Brief reflections on lessons learned from encounters with outstanding scientists in graduate school Now approaching the terminus of my time in graduate…
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The Student Blog Dealing with the reproducibility crisis: what can ECRs do about it?Read more
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (no judgment, by the way), I’m sure you’ve heard about the reproducibility crisis in scientific…
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The Student Blog The PLOS ONE Early Career Researcher Travel Awards in the Physical SciencesRead more
By PLOS ONE editors post-info Early career researchers (ECRs) are very much at the heart of what we do at PLOS. Last…
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Early Career Research Community I survived giving my first large conference talk as a PhD studentRead more
When I was in the middle of designing my poster, an email from the organizers of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory‘s Asia Conference…
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Early Career Research Community How attending an interdisciplinary college teaching conference immediately impacted my classroom practicesRead more
As a scientist and science education researcher, I never expected to find innovations and strategies for my classroom from diverse areas such…
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Early Career Research Community How to make an impact in science policy as a graduate studentRead more
With a lack of scientists in the Executive Branch and a growing national sentiment to include science in policymaking, now is better…
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Early Career Research Community Travel, science, and making friends: why you should go to a small conferenceRead more
Last week, 200 myelin biologists met at a hotel in Ventura, California for five full days of hard-core science. If you’ve been…
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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…
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Early Career Research Community The 30-year-old student: is graduate school worth it?Read more
Picture this: an enthusiastic young researcher, completing an undergraduate or master’s project, thrilled to be part of the exciting world of scientific…