PLOS is pleased to announce a second opportunity for early career researchers (ECRs) to apply for the ECR Travel Awards Program. Applicants…
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The Student Blog The second round of PLOS ECR Travel Awards are now openRead more
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Early Career Research Community Neurotechnology: A Look Back at President Obama’s BRAIN InitiativeRead more
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas, probably in that order. – Sydney Brenner In 2012, my former…
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Early Career Research Community Choose-Your-Own Experiment: Active Learning in Introductory Biology CoursesRead more
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 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…