Completing my Ph.D. was truly an exciting time. Writing my thesis meant spending less time at the bench, which in turn meant…
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Early Career Research Community Tips on a smooth Ph.D. – Postdoc transition; avoiding the post-graduation blues
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Early Career Research Community PLOS ECR Editorial Summer reading list
With summer and vacation upon us, we can finally catch up on some reading. For some reason, there is never enough…
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Early Career Research Community You’ve completed your review – now get credit with ORCID
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Early Career Research Community Millennials aren’t “traditional” undergraduate students today; they might be faculty colleagues
Attending a recent event focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), I heard a speaker discussing how millennials eventually will be entering…
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Early Career Research Community PLOS welcomes the revised Plan S guidelines
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Early Career Research Community This one weird trick will improve your science
Science is all about remembering things. This is something we maybe wish wasn’t true, and certainly we can and should look things…
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Early Career Research Community It’s Our Preprint Anniversary!
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Early Career Research Community Poster session, the Most Learnable Part in a Scientific Conference, a Mutual Learning Mode
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It’s a way of thinking – Carl Sagan As I was surfing the Internet on…
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Early Career Research Community Elements of a positive academic environment for early career researchers, and how we are contributing
Academia can be a very intellectually challenging place, but also frustrating for more vulnerable populations, including early career researchers (ECRs), due…
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Early Career Research Community We help you Open Science.
Plan S is changing the scientific publishing landscape. PLOS ONE can help you be part of the change. cOAlition S, an…
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Early Career Research Community Fixing the pipeline: Shirley Tilghman on the future of biomedical training
We spend a lot of time here at PLOS ECR discussing the trials and triumphs of being an early career researcher. One…
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Early Career Research Community Fighting the good fight: Plan S and the quest for open science
Just recently, it was announced that the University of California will stop paying to subscribe to journals published by Elsevier, the world’s…