Six Lessons from a Pandemic PhD Student
If you're starting a doctoral programme later this year, particularly if your institution is still facing COVID-19 restrictions, Ciara O'Brien has some advice.
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How We Embarked on a Long-distance Relationship on Behalf of Our Research Career
How We Embarked on a Long-distance Relationship on Behalf of Our Research Career
Many scientist couples move abroad together, but Gidiane Scaratti and Rafael Kenji Nishihora chose to live and work in different countries. This is what they learnt.
You Can Help to Create a New Researcher-reward System
Universities, funders and others want to expand the contributions that the scientific community values and recognizes, says Karen Stroobants.
The Importance of Early Career Researchers for Promoting Open Research
The Importance of Early Career Researchers for Promoting Open Research
Early career researchers appear to be at the vanguard of open research, with them reporting more positive attitudes towards sharing of code compared to more experienced researchers.
How Philosophy is Making Me a Better Scientist
Rasha Shraim's education helped her to think more deeply about ethics, logic and other big questions.
How Junior Scientists Can Land a Seat at the Leadership Table
Early-career researchers bring energy, talent and diverse voices to leadership and advisory roles.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Careers of Young Researchers
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Careers of Young Researchers
Within the scope of the Career Tracker Cohorts study, postdocs were surveyed in order to learn more about potential changes in their work routines, effects on their research, and their own assessment of the impact the pandemic would have on their careers.
Why Industry Internships Can Be Your 'golden Ticket' to a Prosperous Career
Why Industry Internships Can Be Your 'golden Ticket' to a Prosperous Career
The three of us took a break from our PhD programmes for a stint that enriched our CVs and improved our chances of career success.
MIT Unveils Program to Help Grad Students Find a New Adviser
MIT Unveils Program to Help Grad Students Find a New Adviser
Graduate student advocacy groups were central to designing the program, which provides a semester of funding if a trainee needs time to find a new mentor.
SNSF Career Tracker Cohorts (CTC) - Newsletter 2021/1
SNSF Career Tracker Cohorts (CTC) - Newsletter 2021/1
This newsletter takes a closer look at the effect of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the participants of the CTC surveys in fall 2020.
Watch the Winners of This Year's "Dance Your Ph.D." Contest
Watch the Winners of This Year's "Dance Your Ph.D." Contest
The Dance Your Ph.D. contest has been challenging scientists to explain their research through dance for 14 years now. The competition got a new COVID-19 category this year.
Immobilized by the Pandemic | Moving Forward in Academia | Nccr - on the Move
Immobilized by the Pandemic | Moving Forward in Academia | Nccr - on the Move
Academic mobility is often a prerequisite for professional development and career advancement - but what happens at a time when this mobility simply isn't possible?
Early-Career Advisory Group: Applications Open for Candidates to Join in 2021
Early-Career Advisory Group: Applications Open for Candidates to Join in 2021
The Early-Career Advisory Group is looking for five early-career researchers to join our advisory group and help us realise our mission to transform research communication.
HHMI Commits $30 Million to Increase Diversity in Science with 21 Hanna Gray Fellows
HHMI Commits $30 Million to Increase Diversity in Science with 21 Hanna Gray Fellows
HHMI announces the selection of 21 exceptional early career scientists as 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in biomedical research. The 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition will open later this year.
Fostering Interdisciplinary Data Cultures through Early Career Development: The RDA/US Data Share Fellowship
Fostering Interdisciplinary Data Cultures through Early Career Development: The RDA/US Data Share Fellowship
In this paper we discuss interdisciplinarity through data as a way to create research environments that are more flexible and, as a result, more amenable to change. We report our findings from facilitating and evaluating a data-oriented early-career fellowship program that was administered as part of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), a global organization that aims to enable open sharing and re-use of data.
The Association Between Early Career Informal Mentorship in Academic Collaborations and Junior Author Performance
The Association Between Early Career Informal Mentorship in Academic Collaborations and Junior Author Performance
Postdoc Survey Reveals Disenchantment with Working Life
ELife Supports PREreview's New Peer Review Mentoring Program for Early-Career Researchers
ELife Supports PREreview's New Peer Review Mentoring Program for Early-Career Researchers
NSF Data on Doctorates Granted Show Slow Growth, with Some Exceptions
NSF Data on Doctorates Granted Show Slow Growth, with Some Exceptions
Uncertainty Plagues Junior Researchers from Underprivileged Backgrounds Amid Pandemic
Uncertainty Plagues Junior Researchers from Underprivileged Backgrounds Amid Pandemic
The Lonely Marathon Run That Transformed My Approach to Graduate School
The Association Between Early Career Informal Mentorship in Academic Collaborations and Junior Author Performance
The Association Between Early Career Informal Mentorship in Academic Collaborations and Junior Author Performance
Here, the authors study mentorship in scientific collaborations, and find that mentorship quality predicts the scientific impact of protégés post mentorship. Moreover, female protégés collaborating with male mentors become more impactful post mentorship than those who collaborate with female mentors.
Four Ways to Fight Science-Funding Cuts Across Europe
Junior researchers need to engage with policymakers, institutions, funders and media outlets to argue against planned budget cut-backs.
Transnational Mobility Networks and Academic Social Capital Among Early‐Career Academics: Beyond Common‐Sense Assumptions
Transnational Mobility Networks and Academic Social Capital Among Early‐Career Academics: Beyond Common‐Sense Assumptions
This study examines the composition of academics’ networks at different points in their career and discuss the role of transnational ties within them.
Why Scientific Societies Should Involve More Early-Career Researchers
Why Scientific Societies Should Involve More Early-Career Researchers
Appointing early-career researchers to positions of influence within scientific societies would be mutually beneficial for both.
Scientists Aren't Trained to Mentor. That's a Problem
Scientists Aren't Trained to Mentor. That's a Problem
Universities need to genuinely support mentorship training for faculty members.
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