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 How advocacy in a time of crisis can improve the research enterprise
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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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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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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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Early Career Research Community Everyone Loves a List, Right?
This is a republished post in an effort to share PLOS posts relevant to early career researchers, especially news on peer…
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Early Career Research Community A Christmas book list
With Christmas just around the corner and the ending of a year and a decade within reach, it is time to…
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Early Career Research Community Podcasts – an underestimated tool of science communication
The last couple of years have seen a real surge of podcasts in many different genres and gladly this has also…
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Early Career Research Community Want to Write a Popular Science Book? Here’s What You Need to Know: A Guest Post From PLOS SciComm
Ever thought about writing a popular science book or rewriting and communicating your research in a more popular scientific way in…
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Early Career Research Community Living in the Reproducibility Crisis
A fundamental aspect of research is that the work you are doing should be reproducible by other researchers. It is in…