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Overcoming hardships for internationals in academia

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Overcoming hardships for internationals in academia

Doing research abroad is a dream for many scientists. However, the road is not always smooth: it takes time to master the social and bureaucratic aspects. Here, Yseult, Ankita, and Ruchika explain some of these challenges and how to help our international colleagues feel at home.

14 Mar 2024 • 5 min read

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Boarding the academic career train at any age

Boarding the academic career train at any age

Success in any career can be boiled down to three key ingredients: putting in the work, having the right team, and hoping with a little luck that the timing is

Carolina Makowski

4 Jun 2020 • 5 min read

Making science more inclusive for trans scientists

Making science more inclusive for trans scientists

Many scientists who identify as trans suffer from discrimination. Nearly 50% of trans people in physics have experienced exclusionary behavior in their workplace, according to a 2016 report from the

18 May 2020 • 4 min read

An international student’s guide to grad school

An international student’s guide to grad school

Are you curious about what it takes to earn a postgraduate degree, particularly one from another country? You are not alone. The number of international students worldwide has steadily increased

Janani Hariharan

13 May 2020 • 8 min read

Intersectionality: what it means

Intersectionality: what it means

Consider two female scientists, a heterosexual black woman and an LGBTQ white woman. Both scientists fall under the "woman" umbrella identity, but will have faced entirely different forms

Sarah Hainer, Ashley Albright

7 May 2020 • 5 min read

Here's how COVID-19 is affecting my first year in graduate school

Here's how COVID-19 is affecting my first year in graduate school

The rapidly and constantly evolving COVID-19 situation has dramatically affected career plans for both early-career faculty [https://www.chronicle.com/article/Covid-19-Crisis-Widens-Divide/248276] and senior graduate students [https://emergency.rice.

27 Apr 2020 • 5 min read

Safety vs freedom: the landscape of post-PhD careers

Safety vs freedom: the landscape of post-PhD careers

Like so many others, we faced a huge dilemma at the end of our respective PhD programs: after many long years of working in the lab: where do we go

Natalia Bielczyk, Elisenda Bonet-Carne

23 Apr 2020 • 6 min read

How one university is green-ing up its act

How one university is green-ing up its act

Scientific research has been estimated [https://www.nature.com/articles/528479c] to produce 5.5 million tonnes of plastic waste globally. Recognising that the world is facing a climate emergency

24 Mar 2020 • 6 min read

Include junior researchers in peer review

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.

4 Mar 2020 • 4 min read

ecrLife: a reintroduction

ecrLife: a reintroduction

Today, I am proud to announce that we are relaunching ecrLife with a brand new design and a new team of editors [https://ecrlife.org/about/#team] who share a

2 Mar 2020 • 2 min read

How to start an open science initiative

How to start an open science initiative

It has been 8 years since Simmons and colleagues’ article [https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417632] “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant”

Mariella Paul, Lieneke Janssen

20 Jan 2020 • 6 min read

Fighting the impact factor, one CV at a time

Fighting the impact factor, one CV at a time

The impact factor is probably one of the most loved and hated bibliographic indicators in the scientific community. It is a simple number, really. It reflects the number of citations

Guillaume Lobet

15 Jan 2020 • 6 min read

Grants for graduate students

Grants for graduate students

Imagine you’re a fifth year graduate student. Your PI had a tragic accident and, unfortunately, is no more. You need a first author publication to graduate, but more experiments

10 Dec 2019 • 5 min read

Halfway Mark: Environmental sustainability

Halfway Mark: Environmental sustainability

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Mentoring and leadership

Halfway Mark: Mentoring and leadership

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Anti-bullying initiative

Halfway Mark: Anti-bullying initiative

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Statistical literacy

Halfway Mark: Statistical literacy

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: ECR peer review

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Career development

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,

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

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