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Getting to know our editorial team: Karishma Gangwani

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Getting to know our editorial team: Karishma Gangwani

Karishma is our newest editor! Thanks to her unique trajectory and communication skills, she acted as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, including doctors, healthcare workers, scientists, clinicians, patients, engineers, and researchers. We are happy to have you!

3 Sep 2026 • 3 min read

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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

Carolina is the heart and soul of our editorial team! Believing in the power of communication to unify us, she helps grow ecrLife in its mission to highlight the imperfections of our research culture and open up the conversation with the goal of bringing about change.

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

Pathways that lead to science are not straight forward: life usually doesn’t fit the patterns we draw. In this post, we can see that every experience can be taken as an opportunity for personal growth. The skills needed to achieve our purposes can come to us, very often, in unexpected shapes.

22 Apr 2021 • 5 min read

ecrLife spotlight: Steven Burgess

ecrLife spotlight: Steven Burgess

Today we have the pleasure to introduce you to our founder! In this post, we travel around ecrLife beginnings, and explore the views and motivations that drove Steven Burgess to actively promote Open Science, Preprint publishing and protocol transparency.

ecrLife editors

15 Apr 2021 • 5 min read

Making science more understandable

Making science more understandable

Misinformation is one of the biggest problems of the internet era. What is our role as scientists? What is the best way to contribute, and communicate science to society? In this post, Elisabeth Marnik presents a list of key points to address these issues and make science more approachable.

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

A compilation of web-based resources you should know about as a scientist

A compilation of web-based resources you should know about as a scientist

Do you ever feel lost trying to stay on top of the latest research-related softwares, programs and websites? In this post, we share the work of James Ducker, a PhD student who created a synthesised resource database that contains several useful links, especially for early career scientists.

James Ducker, Carolina Paz Quezada

18 Mar 2021 • 3 min read

Finding a path forward after experiencing academic bullying

Finding a path forward after experiencing academic bullying

How do you handle a toxic work environment in which you are the target of bullying? Pause, step back, breathe and analyze the situation in an organized manner before taking action.

Margherita Perillo

11 Mar 2021 • 6 min read

Getting to know our editorial team: Ewoud Compeer

Getting to know our editorial team: Ewoud Compeer

Ewoud is one of our newest editors, and he is a jewel. He has moved all over the world on a quest to stay up to speed with cutting-edge microscopy techniques. Living in different environments has helped him gain a broad understanding of the scientific culture and a drive to help improve it.

ecrLife editors

4 Mar 2021 • 4 min read

The real-life experience of a deaf scientist studying in different cultures

The real-life experience of a deaf scientist studying in different cultures

Tom (Lok Ming) Tam

25 Feb 2021 • 6 min read

Why you should consider university-industry collaboration and how to engage in one

Why you should consider university-industry collaboration and how to engage in one

Sharon Gill, Ruth Kirk

18 Feb 2021 • 5 min read

Getting to know our editorial team: Devang Mehta

Getting to know our editorial team: Devang Mehta

ecrLife editors

11 Feb 2021 • 5 min read

Getting to know our editorial team: Carolina Makowski

Getting to know our editorial team: Carolina Makowski

ecrLife editors

4 Feb 2021 • 3 min read

Getting to know our editorial team: Antonia de Maio

Getting to know our editorial team: Antonia de Maio

The ecrLife editorial family has grown, and we would like to take the chance of getting to know each other a bit better. In the following weeks, our editors will be sharing their motivations and dreams as young scientists. This week, for all of you with love: Antonia de Maio.

ecrLife editors

28 Jan 2021 • 3 min read

The Invisible Barriers in STEM Education faced by Hard-of-hearing/Deaf Scientists

The Invisible Barriers in STEM Education faced by Hard-of-hearing/Deaf Scientists

The difficulties faced by hard-of-hearing/deaf early career scientists not only come from physiological differences but also significantly from stereotypes that exist against us. What kind? Read about it in this article.

Tom (Lok Ming) Tam

21 Jan 2021 • 6 min read

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