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Featured interview with Dr. Marina Cano and Dr. Rosa García-Periago: Women, “Failure” and Academia

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Featured interview with Dr. Marina Cano and Dr. Rosa García-Periago: Women, “Failure” and Academia

Failure happens often in academia, yet we rarely talk about it. Instead, academics appear to avoid admitting failure, as conversations center around announcements of our successes. Here, we interview Dr.

21 May 2026 • 8 min read

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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

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

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Fair funding

Halfway Mark: Fair funding

5 Dec 2019 • 1 min read

Halfway Mark: Intersectionality

Halfway Mark: Intersectionality

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

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

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