If you are a scientist, you have likely been confronted with the challenge of boiling down the work you do for various…
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Early Career Research Community Science of Science Communication with Bruce Lewenstein
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The Student Blog NatPhil – A Memoir of Mentoring
As many of us know and may have experienced, good mentors can have a long-lasting, positive impact on a young researcher taking…
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Early Career Research Community ‘Stop Acting Like A Grad Student’: review of “The Professor Is In”
Roughly two years ago, a postdoc in my lab recommended a book to me called, “The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide…
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Academia Peer review: time to get ECRs involved
Approaching Christmas and leaving an autumn with the important recurrent weeks of research behind us. Obviously, I am referring to Peer Review…
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Early Career Research Community Open Access Week 2018: time to stand up for science
Towards openness With autumn finally upon us or fast approaching (at least here in Sweden) we have seen several important scientific…
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Early Career Research Community Early career pathways in science and conservation: Where will I be in 10 years?
Are you enrolled in or thinking about embarking on a graduate degree? Do you have a clear idea or goal for…
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Early Career Research Community Guest Post: Learning about preprints with PREreview
Editor’s note: Today on the blog we welcome a guest post by the PREreview Leadership Team, Daniela Saderi, Samantha Hindle, and Monica Granados. Their…
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Early Career Research Community Escape from the ivory tower: why sharing your knowledge with the surrounding society is more than a mission, it’s a necessity
Quite recently I had the privilege of attending the 6th international conference on Preventing Overdiagnosis in Copenhagen. Since this subject is…
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Early Career Research Community Want to succeed in research? Passion is key!
(Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the author’s personal blog, Brain & Beyond.) Everyone wants to know how to…
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Early Career Research Community Kofi Annan 1938-2018: a guiding force for good and a role model for global health
As I have written elsewhere, inspiring people have the ability to change the course and intensity of your research area, in my…
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Early Career Research Community Conflicts didn’t kill me, but made me stronger
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. ——Margaret Heffernan Conflicts in research groups are common…
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Early Career Research Community Addressing the Mental Health Crisis among Doctoral Researchers, Part II
By Yorick Peterse, Jana Lasser, Giulia Caglio, Katarzyna Stoltmann, Dagmara Rusiecka and Martin Schmidt This is part II of a blog post…