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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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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

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

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

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

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Career development

Halfway Mark: Career development

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

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

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