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 ECRs
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Early Career Research Community #GradStudentTax: What it is and how it could impact you — Updated 12/21/17
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 Shortcuts to Scientific Success
Researchers can often refer to at least one inspiring person or event that has instigated their academic endeavors. As a marine biologist…
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Early Career Research Community Grief in Graduate School: What You and Your School Can Do to Help
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 Open Access Week 2017: It’s time to do something about predatory publishers
Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard of or…
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Early Career Research Community A simple “nudge” goes a long way: The right to childcare and preschool benefits
I have previously written about the challenge of combining research and parenthood and the benefits of parental leave from my perspective as…
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Early Career Research Community Alternative Medicine: Why Science Is Being Ignored and What To Do About It
“Anti-GMO,” “essential oils,” “gluten-free,” “detox cleanses,” “homeopathic” the buzzwords abound, permeating internet blogs and…
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Early Career Research Community The ECR Perspective on Metabolomics: Interview with Dr. Vanessa Phelan
Beyond the realms of genetic material that we living beings have, there is a complex chemistry of life in the form of organic…
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Early Career Research Community Bullied into going national: Early career researchers are taking initiative
This post was contributed by Corina Logan and Laurent Gatto of Bullied into Bad Science. “It’s a somehow unwritten law at the…
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Early Career Research Community Molecular Ethics: CRISPR Genome Editing
The capacity to edit human genomes is at our doorstep. As societies debate the relevant ethics, the scientific community should focus on…
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Early Career Research Community How science is communicated impacts how science is received: Early career researchers share their take on the future of #scicomm
In the fifth cycle of the ECR Travel Awards, early career researchers wrote in with their thoughts on how methods of science…
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Early Career Research Community The Future of Science is with our Youth
Two things are true regarding STEM. One, there are a tremendous amount of job openings, and two, there are not enough qualified…