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How to overcome your “academic midlife crisis” (Part 3 – Reshaping your skill sets to fit your career path(s))

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How to overcome your “academic midlife crisis” (Part 3 – Reshaping your skill sets to fit your career path(s))

Finding the perfect job after your PhD is not straightforward, but doing it takes experience. You might need to look at different fields, and your goals could change over time. In part 3 of her academic midlife crisis series, Nele Haelterman describes how to get closer to your perfect job.

15 Sep 2025 • 5 min read

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Getting to know our editorial team: Angel Cisneros

Getting to know our editorial team: Angel Cisneros

Angel is the latest addition to our editorial team, and we are so happy to have him! He is the glue to our editorial team, making sure that we e-meet regularly to catch up and to plan for ecrLife's next steps. Keep an eye on this one, because he will go places!

ecrLife editors

14 Apr 2022 • 5 min read

Building a Technology-Savvy Workforce to Drive the Future of Research

Building a Technology-Savvy Workforce to Drive the Future of Research

The pandemic forced scientists to change how they do research. While some of these changes have improved the scientific method, others further increase pre-existing inequities in the research environment. In this post, Adriana Bankston outlines how she envisions the future of the research workforce.

Adriana Bankston

17 Feb 2022 • 5 min read

Paying it forward: bringing innovation to academic funding

Paying it forward: bringing innovation to academic funding

Not every postdoc has the same salary, supportive environment, or benefits. These factors vary greatly among institutions, creating an inequitable environment. Amanda Hurley introduces a new funding mechanism that better supports postdocs to successfully transition into independent positions.

10 Feb 2022 • 5 min read

How to avoid overcommitting in grad school

How to avoid overcommitting in grad school

The drive to publish is a strong motivator for scientists to spend late nights and weekends in the lab. While long hours may initially pay off, the lack of time for self-care and rest quickly make you less focused and productive. Find out how to keep a healthy balance in our latest blog post.

Karishma Gangwani, Aishwarya Kothari

3 Feb 2022 • 5 min read

How to get what you want out of graduate school: lessons from the business world

How to get what you want out of graduate school: lessons from the business world

Academic training teaches ECRs how to design, run, and analyze experiments, but often overlooks soft skills such as interpersonal and organizational skills. In this blog post, Rachel Meade shows you how to develop these skills and become a more well-rounded scientist.

13 Jan 2022 • 6 min read

How volunteering can support you and your research

How volunteering can support you and your research

While life as a scientist can be incredibly rewarding, day-to-day life at the bench can at times feel like a drag. In this post, Katherine MacInnes tells us how transformative it can be to find an extra passion that provides short-term rewards for the soul to keep us healthy and motivated in life.

Katherine MacInnes

16 Dec 2021 • 5 min read

Getting to know “Sciety”

Getting to know “Sciety”

In terms of fast communication and equity, preprints are invaluable for all researchers. In this post, we wanted to show you a bit more about Sciety, how it works, and the important role it plays on providing easy access to relevant preprints for the whole biomedical community.

Sciety team, Carolina Paz Quezada

23 Sep 2021 • 3 min read

Mental health of early career researchers: COVID-19 brings the community together (virtually)

Mental health of early career researchers: COVID-19 brings the community together (virtually)

COVID-19 has restructured the way we produce and share science, producing an unparallelled increase in stress and anxiety-levels among early career researchers. Here, members of the Berlin research community highlight key findings from their virtual brainstorming event to cope with this stress.

Berlin Institute of Health Research Community

9 Sep 2021 • 4 min read

Higher education re-imagined: goals, societal impacts, and pandemic effects

Higher education re-imagined: goals, societal impacts, and pandemic effects

Higher education will never be the same again post-pandemic, as hybrid learning is likely here to stay. In this post, Adriana invites us to review and implement today the changes needed in higher education to ensure sustainable training environments for the next generation.

Adriana Bankston

10 Jun 2021 • 5 min read

Getting to know our editorial team: Andy Tay

Getting to know our editorial team: Andy Tay

Andy is an awesome scientist and a highly motivated science communicator. At his young age, and coming from a modest family, his accomplishments in both areas are outstanding, making him an excellent role model for every early career researcher in need of a bit of inspiration.

ecrLife editors

27 May 2021 • 3 min read

Getting to know our editorial team: Nele Haelterman

Getting to know our editorial team: Nele Haelterman

Nele is the kind of person who brings out the best in you, in the best way possible. She is so committed to her ideas on how to improve research culture, that she continues to inspire the entire ecrLife team with her actions. Her firm but sweet personality make her an adorable leader!

ecrLife editors

20 May 2021 • 6 min read

Becoming a hearing ally: how do you best accommodate non-hearing scientists?

Becoming a hearing ally: how do you best accommodate non-hearing scientists?

Creating an inclusive environment means listening to, and adopting suggestions to overcome barriers faced by people from different backgrounds and abilities. How do you best tailor our scientific research culture to deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists?

Tom (Lok Ming) Tam

6 May 2021 • 6 min read

Getting to know our editorial team: Carolina Quezada

Getting to know our editorial team: Carolina Quezada

ecrLife editors

29 Apr 2021 • 4 min read

My service in the Air Force made me a better scientist

My service in the Air Force made me a better scientist

22 Apr 2021 • 5 min read

ecrLife spotlight: Steven Burgess

ecrLife spotlight: Steven Burgess

ecrLife editors

15 Apr 2021 • 5 min read

Making science more understandable

Making science more understandable

Elisabeth Marnik

8 Apr 2021 • 5 min read

Why you should publish your work as a Preprint - A conversation with Dr. Prachee Avasthi

Why you should publish your work as a Preprint - A conversation with Dr. Prachee Avasthi

We had the chance to talk to Prachee Avasthi, president of ASAPBio, who answered all our questions about preprints. She showed us how early career scientists can get involved in the publishing and reviewing process of preprints, and how it can benefit us all!

Nele Haelterman, ecrLife editors

1 Apr 2021 • 7 min read

Finding Your Tribe

Finding Your Tribe

We know how hard it can be to decide (and define) a career path once you get your PhD. In this post, Natalia Bielczyk explains the importance of channeling our efforts into finding the right people and the right environment to develop our potential(s) and thrive.

Natalia Bielczyk

25 Mar 2021 • 4 min read

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