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Reaching Out to Senior Scientists: A Step Worth Taking

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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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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

Workplace bullying [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813017965]—repetitive abusive, threatening, humiliating and intimidating behaviour—is on the rise globally. And matters are worse in academia. In the

5 Nov 2019 • 8 min read

Walking the talk for sustainable science

Walking the talk for sustainable science

It’s just another day in the lab: perhaps you’re culturing ten different cell lines in ten different plastic flasks, picking bacterial colonies with plastic tips into single-use plastic

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?

13 Jun 2019 • 5 min read

What makes funding programs fair?

What makes funding programs fair?

5 Apr 2019 • 9 min read

Assessing the quality of mentorship in research environments

Assessing the quality of mentorship in research environments

> A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. Oprah Winfrey > Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had

5 Mar 2019 • 3 min read

What makes a good paper?

What makes a good paper?

“What makes a good paper?” is a great question that many scientists still ask themselves when they submit their work for consideration to be published. One of the most common

26 Feb 2019 • 4 min read

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