The late great Shakespeare famously wrote in As You Like It, “All the world’s a stage,” and if that’s true, then oral…
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Early Career Research Community The Art of Selling Science: Presenting an engaging scientific talkRead more
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Early Career Research Community Why Teaching Makes You SmarterRead more
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark van Doren Last fall, I taught for the Science Honors…
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Early Career Research Community Ten tips to stay on top of your reading during grad schoolRead more
In grad school we tend to focus on experiments: planning, performing, analyzing and interpreting them. While keeping up with relevant literature is…
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Early Career Research Community Leaping Over the Hurdles of ProcrastinationRead more
“This blog post is due when? Now, it’s due now!” I think to myself. I start typing in a fury. “I…
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Early Career Research Community Grad School 101: Navigating the final year of graduate schoolRead more
The early days of grad school are a thing of the past. You’ve successfully completed important milestones such as the qualifying exam…
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Early Career Research Community Reflections on OpenCon 2016Read more
When checking in to the third annual OpenCon Conference, every individual is given the customary conference badge indicating name, institution, and Twitter…
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Early Career Research Community How to transition to a biotech startup after your PhDRead more
Baylor College of Medicine recently hosted Rachel Haurwitz, the CEO of Caribou Biosciences, to discuss her experiences founding the company. Named by…
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Early Career Research Community Grad School 101: Avoiding the slump in years 3 and 4Read more
Grad students commonly experience a slump during the third and fourth years of study. The carefree times of first year are far…
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Early Career Research Community Three Tips for Building a Student-Led Student Research NetworkRead more
Student research networks host social and professional activities designed to enhance the ECR experience, and these networks help ECRs share knowledge while…
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Early Career Research Community Computer Coding to SuccessRead more
To be a successful scientist in academia it is no longer sufficient to be good at science. In addition to expertise in…
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Early Career Research Community Announcing the second round winners of PLOS ECR Travel AwardsRead more
The second batch of PLOS Early Career Researcher Travel Awards have been awarded to ten PLOS authors. Though their specialties range from…
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Early Career Research Community What’s in a Name? The Impact of Different Course Titles on Student EnrollmentRead more
“The three pillars of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.” Benjamin Disraeli In October of 1955, Ford marketing…