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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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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

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Mentoring and leadership

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Anti-bullying initiative

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Statistical literacy

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

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

Halfway Mark: Meta-Research

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Data Reuse Initiative

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Collaborative Science

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Fair funding

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Intersectionality

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

5 Dec 2019 • 2 min read

"My PhD broke me"—bullying in academia and a call to action

"My PhD broke me"—bullying in academia and a call to action

5 Nov 2019 • 8 min read

Walking the talk for sustainable science

Walking the talk for sustainable science

Samantha Seah, Bente Benedict

17 Sep 2019 • 5 min read

Why scientists need to explore our vulnerability

Why scientists need to explore our vulnerability

20 Jul 2019 • 4 min read

Creating mutualism between research and teaching

Creating mutualism between research and teaching

Guillaume Lobet

27 Jun 2019 • 6 min read

How can biologists and computer scientists collaborate effectively?

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

13 Jun 2019 • 5 min read

What makes funding programs fair?

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,

5 Apr 2019 • 9 min read

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