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 Community Comments and Peer Review: A preprint commenting pilot at PLOS
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Early Career Research Community Conquering your first invitation as a guest speaker
It was in spring this year that I received a formal invitation to summarize my PhD as part of a seminar series…
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Early Career Research Community Open Access Week 2019: Getting the ECR perspective
Open for whom? So this was this year’s Open Access Week. We hope you all enjoyed it and gave the development of…
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Early Career Research Community Quantifying the Impact of Early Career Setbacks
To those pursuing a career in the sciences, especially in a research capacity, failure is the norm. However, the long term impacts…
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Early Career Research Community Peer Review Week 2019
Despite last week’s focus on the upcoming #ClimateStrike, it was also Peer Review Week. This year’s theme was all about Quality in…
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Early Career Research Community Science Outreach: The Catharsis of an Undergraduate
“The first rule of NatPhil is that you do not talk about NatPhil.” Pretty much like the 1999 cult classic Fight…
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Early Career Research Community 8 tips for starting the school year off right (for new and continuing graduate students)
It’s finally fall! Which for many of us means cooler temps, changing leaves, pumpkin flavored beverages, and back-to-school. Whether you’re a fresh…
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Early Career Research Community The Dual Nature of the Research Enterprise
One major goal of the research enterprise is the generation of new scientific knowledge, which assumes that we are training researchers…
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Early Career Research Community Job Market Myths: Fact or Fiction?
Since my transition to a postdoctoral fellowship earlier this year, I’ve begun to investigate the non-academic job market. Careers outside academia were…
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Early Career Research Community ComSciConNY 2019: Competence, warmth, and knowing your audience
Have you ever found yourself listening to an academic lecture peppered with unfamiliar words, feeling a little clueless? God knows I have…
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Early Career Research Community The Untold Story: what doesn’t make it into the journal
In the world of academia, a scientist’s worth is often judged by the number of peer-reviewed articles they’ve authored and how frequently…
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Early Career Research Community True Grit: the PhD experience as a way of moving forward
It is an understatement to say that it takes persistence and endurance to get through grad school in the quest for…