The growing need for collaboration among young scientists is more essential now than ever before, with careers in research becoming more uncertain…
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Early Career Research Community Science is the name but collaboration is the gameRead more
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Early Career Research Community A Clinical Conference Experience in a Basic Science WorldRead more
Why a clinical research conference? Customarily, attending a scientific conference has a way of helping one reexamine their objectives and priorities in…
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Early Career Research Community Meet some of the PLOS ECRs and Forbes 30 Under 30 leading the research communityRead more
This post is part two of a two-part blog series. Visit The Official PLOS Blog for part one. The New Year kicked…
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Early Career Research Community Where Science and Policy Collide: Funding Academic ResearchRead more
By now, you’ve likely seen endless articles upon articles upon articles eloquently written by scientists and advocates who have pled their case…
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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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Early Career Research Community Standing up for science – now more than everRead more
Science has never been an easy job, but in the tradition of great scientists, we should keep fighting for it. The current…
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Early Career Research Community How Scarce Funding Shapes Young ScientistsRead more
Ask any young science faculty member what keeps them up at night, and you’re likely to get the same response every time: funding…
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The Student Blog Pursuing a Ph.D. as a Parent: How to SurviveRead more
Just like every morning, I get ready and pack lunches quietly as to not wake anyone. As I’m pulling my 10-month-old son…
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Early Career Research Community A Catch-22 in Minority Training: How to Maintain BalanceRead more
As an ECR, it is important to attend conferences and meetings in order to gain knowledge and build networks. Whether you attend a…
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Early Career Research Community Organizing Papers and References without Losing your MindRead more
In January, Ulrike Träger wrote a great PLOS ECR post describing how to stay on top of reading during graduate school. If…
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Early Career Research Community Science and Parenting: The challenge of combining research and family as an ECRRead more
In a previous post, I wrote about the value of parental benefits as an ECR from a Swedish perspective, since the right to be able…
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Early Career Research Community 4 Reasons Graduate Students Shouldn’t Have to Work WeekendsRead more
A new PhD Comic set science Twitter afire this weekend. The gist of the comic: in exchange for the flexibility of graduate…