Careers Early Career Researchers, take charge and develop your career You are not alone in feeling overwhelmed when trying to plan out your career development. Discover some tips and tricks to best overcome this feeling and take charge! ecrLife 28 Sep 2020 • 6 min read
Publishing Include junior researchers in peer review We, a group of early career researchers (ECRs) involved in the eLife Community Ambassadors programme, believe that the rigour, speed, and inclusivity of existing peer review processes can be significantly improved by including (more) ECRs. ecrLife 4 Mar 2020 • 4 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Environmental sustainability The Environmental Sustainability Initiative aims to promote environmentally sustainable behaviours in science, by raising awareness about the relevant issues and potential solutions. Thus far, we have released our first blogpost ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Mentoring and leadership Mentoring is critical to success in research environments but reports show [https://ecrlife.org/assessing-the-quality-of-mentorship-in-academia/] that the quality of mentorship is not what it needs to be to ensure mentee ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Anti-bullying initiative The main goal for the anti-bullying initiative is to raise awareness about bullying in academia, create strategies of how to recognise and reduce bullying and support the victims. Our current ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Statistical literacy The Statistical Literacy Initiative aims to reduce the misuse and misinterpretation of statistical hypothesis testing in Life Science papers. Most publications in this field use statistics to support claims about ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: ECR peer review The ECR peer review initiative has two main goals. The first is to shape the current peer review process to be more officially inclusive for early-career researchers, and the second ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Career development Developing a diverse set of skills and experiences sets one up for upcoming opportunities both in and outside academia. The career development initiative will compile resources for exploring STEM careers, ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Meta-Research Science of science, or meta-research, studies are a valuable tool for understanding problems in scientific research and developing solutions. In this “learn-by-doing” initiative, members of the eLife Ambassadors Meta-research Team ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Data Reuse Initiative Motivation for the Data Reuse Initiative is to make open data sharing interesting, accessible, and educational. Our target audience ranges from the eLife Ambassadors initiative to interested open data creators ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Collaborative Science The Collaborative Science group aims to create and share resources to help early career researchers (ECR) engage in successful collaborations. Collaborations are a useful way for ECRs to learn new ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Fair funding The Fair Funding initiative is running within the eLife Community Ambassador program for the second year. Our goals are to create awareness amongst early-career researchers (ECRs) of good practices regarding ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read
eLife Ambassadors Halfway Mark: Intersectionality This is the first year for the Intersectionality Initiative for the eLife Community Ambassadors. The aim of our initiative is to promote diversity and inclusion within sciences using an intersectional ecrLife 5 Dec 2019 • 2 min read
Mentoring "My PhD broke me"—bullying in academia and a call to action Workplace bullying [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813017965]—repetitive abusive, threatening, humiliating and intimidating behaviour—is on the rise globally. And matters are worse in academia. In the ecrLife 5 Nov 2019 • 8 min read
Ideas How can biologists and computer scientists collaborate effectively? Ideas from a roundtable discussion By Natalie Clark Over the last five years, biologists have gained the ability to produce ever larger datasets at low costs, and have consequently started ecrLife 13 Jun 2019 • 5 min read
Equity What makes funding programs fair? A summary of fair funding policies and examples of good practices Elisa Floriddia, David Eccles, Tai-Ying Lee, Orsolya Symmons, Freyja Olafsdottir, eLife Ambassadors, and Vinodh Ilangovan and Lotte de Winde, ecrLife 5 Apr 2019 • 9 min read
Mentoring Assessing the quality of mentorship in research environments > A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. Oprah Winfrey > Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had ecrLife 5 Mar 2019 • 3 min read
Encouraging Open Science in Latin America By Humberto Debat [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=es&user=WTXvKy0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate] * (Researcher at IPAVE-CIAP-INTA [https://inta.gob.ar/videos/what-is-inta] ecrLife 22 Jan 2019 • 6 min read
