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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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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

The light of my phone glares at me as I go through my morning routine of checking emails on my phone from bed. > “Dear Mr. Tan, Thank you for

20 Jul 2019 • 4 min read

Creating mutualism between research and teaching

Creating mutualism between research and teaching

Teaching in academia is often seen as a distraction from research. Teaching takes time, energy, resources and, most importantly, does not produce any papers. In many universities, if you are

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

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?

26 Feb 2019 • 4 min read

National Young Academy of Chile proposed during ‘Present and Future of Science in Chile’ symposium

National Young Academy of Chile proposed during ‘Present and Future of Science in Chile’ symposium

5 Feb 2019 • 1 min read

Encouraging diligent research reporting: A conversation with Dr. Lenny Teytelman

Encouraging diligent research reporting: A conversation with Dr. Lenny Teytelman

29 Jan 2019 • 5 min read

Encouraging Open Science in Latin America

Encouraging Open Science in Latin America

22 Jan 2019 • 6 min read

Encouraging Open Science in Latin America

Encouraging Open Science in Latin America

By Humberto Debat [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=es&user=WTXvKy0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate] * (Researcher at IPAVE-CIAP-INTA [https://inta.gob.ar/videos/what-is-inta]

22 Jan 2019 • 6 min read

Creating a research figure: Tips from graphic design

Creating a research figure: Tips from graphic design

Your story is coming together and the data is there, but now comes the part of writing a paper that most researchers have never been formally taught: creating figures. In

18 Jan 2019 • 6 min read

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