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 Serendipity and BiomechanicsRead more
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Early Career Research Community Teaching is another way of learning: The rewards of being a teaching assistantRead more
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 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 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…