This year’s International Open Access Week is now officially over. With the theme Community over Commercialization, there is a continued focus on…
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Academia Open Access Week: A reminder what research is all aboutRead more
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PLOS ECR Community Two PhD students’ journey in organizing the 1st Open Science workshop in BordeauxRead more
Photo Caption: Organizers and participants posing in front of the Broca building in Bordeaux, at the last day of the Open Science…
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Academia From supervised to supervisorRead more
Bachelor student, Master student, PhD-student. All education within academia rely on supervisors to be able to step in and lead when students…
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Academia The Academic AI Takeover: How To Embrace the AI RevolutionRead more
In the ever-evolving landscape of academic research, the role of artificial intelligence has undergone a dramatic transformation. Not too long ago, the…
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Academia Why refraining from academic flying may not be the best career moveRead more
My personal opinion of a professional dilemma Calculations show that only 2–4 % of the global population are flying. Academics from all over…
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Academia Behind the Scenes: The Birth, Growth, and Impact of My YouTube Channel on ECRsRead more
Stepping into the world of YouTube was never a calculated career move for me. It was more of a serendipitous stumble into…
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Early Career Research Community I managed my lab anxiety by being comfortable with bad results and keeping good track of my workRead more
One weekend when I was working in the lab repeating optimization experiments for developing a strawberry pathogen detection assay, I was picking…
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Open Access Building a more sustainable future through Open Access researchRead more
Note: This is a republished post in an effort to share PLOS posts relevant to early career researchers. The blog post was…
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PLoS 5 things every ECR should know about Registered ReportsRead more
Author: Lindsay Morton, Senior Manager, Open Science Community Engagement, PLOS Registered Reports support scientific rigor, help to create a more complete scientific…
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Academia My first chalk talkRead more
After three years of hard work in three different labs, I still consider myself as a junior postdoc who is not yet…
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Academia My view of Society for NeuroscienceRead more
I heard about Society for Neuroscience (SfN) for the first time seven years ago. It was during a smaller conference I attended where everybody was talking…
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Early Career Research Community A Christmas Climate Reading BooklistRead more
With Christmas just around the corner, I would like to take the opportunity to recommend some climate books to read over the…