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Reaching Out to Senior Scientists: A Step Worth Taking

When we start out as early career researchers, we often hesitate to reach out to senior scientists. However, they are often excited to help young scientists. Here, Owen Ouyang discusses how mentorship, collaborations, and encouragement can come from a simple email to a senior colleague.

3 Jul 2025 • 4 min read

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    eLife Ambassadors: Plans for action
            February saw eLife Ambassadors holding calls based around shared interests,
including equality, reproducibility, preprints and peer review, funding
opportunities, the Indian ECR community, transparency and careers and mentoring.
The outcome
        
ecrLife

    26 Feb 2018
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    eLife Ambassadors: Plans for action
            February saw eLife Ambassadors holding calls based around shared interests,
including equality, reproducibility, preprints and peer review, funding
opportunities, the Indian ECR community, transparency and careers and mentoring.
The outcome
        
ecrLife

    26 Feb 2018
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    3 min read
    
    Interview: Addressing problems in public
            Nic Schmelling (@DerSchmelling [https://twitter.com/derschmelling]) is a PhD
student working in the lab of Synthetic Microbiology at University of Düsseldorf
[http://www.synmikrobiologie.hhu.de/en.html], Germany.
        
ecrLife

    14 Feb 2018
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    4 min read
    
    Interview: Addressing problems in public
            Nic Schmelling (@DerSchmelling [https://twitter.com/derschmelling]) is a PhD
student working in the lab of Synthetic Microbiology at University of Düsseldorf
[http://www.synmikrobiologie.hhu.de/en.html], Germany.
        
ecrLife

    14 Feb 2018
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    4 min read
    
    Mentoring, promoting women in research and more updates from eLife Ambassadors
            A round-up of discussions and articles shared by eLife Ambassadors in early
February 

A new group for discussion of mentoring has been established by Hammad Khan,
there was lots of
        
ecrLife

    9 Feb 2018
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    3 min read
    
    Mentoring, promoting women in research and more updates from eLife Ambassadors
            A round-up of discussions and articles shared by eLife Ambassadors in early
February 

A new group for discussion of mentoring has been established by Hammad Khan,
there was lots of
        
ecrLife

    9 Feb 2018
    •
    3 min read
    
    Inspiring Girls to Pursue STEM Careers
            Firstly, What is STEM?

STEM stands Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. In its broadest sense, it
relates the work force in the fields of chemistry, physics, engineering,
mathematics, information technology,
        
ecrLife

    8 Feb 2018
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    2 min read
    
    Inspiring Girls to Pursue STEM Careers
            Firstly, What is STEM?

STEM stands Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. In its broadest sense, it
relates the work force in the fields of chemistry, physics, engineering,
mathematics, information technology,
        
ecrLife

    8 Feb 2018
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    2 min read
    
            eLife Ambassadors
        
    eLife Ambassadors: Off to a flying start
            eLife launched its first ambassador program last week
[https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/912b0679/early-career-advisory-group-elife-welcomes-150-ambassadors-of-good-practice-in-science]
. I have been lucky enough to be involved in coordinating these efforts and I am
excited
        
ecrLife

    1 Feb 2018
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    4 min read
    
            eLife Ambassadors
        
    eLife Ambassadors: Off to a flying start
            eLife launched its first ambassador program last week
[https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/912b0679/early-career-advisory-group-elife-welcomes-150-ambassadors-of-good-practice-in-science]
. I have been lucky enough to be involved in coordinating these efforts and I am
excited
        
ecrLife

    1 Feb 2018
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    4 min read
    
    Welcome
            Hello! Welcome to ecrLife.

Pursuing a career in science can be a fantastic experience. It can offer an
intellectual challenge with the potential to make lives better, by making new
        
ecrLife

    22 Jan 2018
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    1 min read
    
    Welcome
            Hello! Welcome to ecrLife.

Pursuing a career in science can be a fantastic experience. It can offer an
intellectual challenge with the potential to make lives better, by making new
        
ecrLife

    22 Jan 2018
    •
    1 min read

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