What should undergraduate students learn in an introductory biology class? Traditionally, these classes seek to give students a broad background in basic…
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Early Career Research Community Choose-Your-Own Experiment: Active Learning in Introductory Biology CoursesRead more
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Early Career Research Community 15 Tips for Improving Your Writing in Graduate SchoolRead more
A few weeks ago I submitted an application for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research…
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Early Career Research Community Reforming scientific publishing to value integrityRead more
Sometimes working in academia feels like being a gymnast at the Olympics. Not because we’re tumbling through the lab in glittering costumes…
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The Student Blog Developments in the Polio Vaccine Field: Using cold adaptation to produce safe inactivated vaccine candidatesRead more
Poliomyelitis, or polio, is a debilitating childhood disease caused by poliovirus. It has been eliminated from most parts of the world thanks…
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Early Career Research Community The benefit of being a parent: why parental leave is more than a perk. It’s a necessityRead more
I recently became a father to a beautiful little girl. As an ECR and first time parent living in Sweden, this means…
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Early Career Research Community The Definitions They Are a-Changin’: Lamarck, Inheritance, and GenomesRead more
A snappy t-shirt can say a lot about a person, such as your sense of humour or style (or lack thereof). It…
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Early Career Research Community “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”: Soda tax, public health and the prevention of diabetesRead more
For those of you who missed it, the Speaking of Medicine ran in July a four week special in relation to the…
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Early Career Research Community Social media for ECRs: Serious scientists can (and do!) use TwitterRead more
The role of social media in science has been hotly debated, with the most recent skirmish coming from a Guardian op-ed. Entitled…
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Early Career Research Community The irreproducibility crisis – An opportunity to make science betterRead more
Is there a reproducibility crisis in science? A recent news feature published in Nature is only the latest piece to suggest that…
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Early Career Research Community Maternal microbial inheritance: Benefits of breastfeedingRead more
The theme of World Breastfeeding Week 2016 is Breastfeeding: A key to sustainable development. The core message of this year’s World Breastfeeding…
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Early Career Research Community Why We Need Computational Models in BiologyRead more
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” Manfred Eigen, 1967 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry…
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Early Career Research Community The Impact of Teaching AssistantshipsRead more
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are graduate students employed by a university or college to undertake certain teaching responsibilities. These responsibilities may include…