Due to the COVID-19 pandemic a lot of ECRs have been through a lot of ups and downs juggling between rearranging bench-based experiments and…
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Early Career Research Community Undusting microscopes and warming up fingers to pipette after a month
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Early Career Research Community Lessons from Blogging Relevant for COVID-19 Communication
For a long time I didn’t feel like the end of my PhD was actually happening. Multiple times I’d drafted an outline…
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Early Career Research Community How advocacy in a time of crisis can improve the research enterprise
I’m a scientist who transitioned into science policy in the last several years. In my current position at the University of…
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Early Career Research Community Defending a Masters thesis during a pandemic
The quarantine has taken something from everyone. For me, it was my defense. For two and a half years, I was a…
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Early Career Research Community Is it a transition or a continuation? From PhD student to Postdoc.
I spent five and a half years to finish my master-PhD program and graduated in January 2019. Some graduates pursue to work…
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Early Career Research Community Academic Mental Health: A Personal Story and How it Could Help Early Career Researchers
The academic system of today is almost like a factory, becoming more and more focused on giving rise to products such…
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Early Career Research Community A message to our community regarding COVID-19
This is a republished post from The Official PLOS Blog in an effort to share PLOS posts relevant to early career researchers on COVID-19. Read…
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PLoS Blogs 2020: A turning point for research data policy?
This is a republished post in an effort to share PLOS posts relevant to early career researchers, especially news on peer review…
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Early Career Research Community Cognition in schizophrenia: a missing piece of the therapeutic puzzle
Note: This post was written by Jessica Brown, PhD student at the University of Manchester. What kind of mental image springs…
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The Student Blog Practical Apps for a new lab
Note: This post was written by Scott T. Aoki, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine…
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Early Career Research Community Coronavirus: what to know to discuss it responsibly
Collaborative post by Dan Jeffries, Vijay Soni, Srijani Basu, and Meredith Whitaker. UPDATE 05/12/2020: As anticipated in our original editor’s note, a…
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Chemistry Younger chemists host public outreach competition in honor of Earth Day
Note: This post was written by Courtney Ngai, Public Outreach Chair for IYCN The International Younger Chemists Network (IYCN) is pleased to announce…