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Getting to know our editorial team: Owen Ouyang

Owen is our newest ecrLife editor! He brings in a lot of enthusiasm and new ideas that will help ECRs along their journey. Welcome to the team, Owen!

6 Nov 2025 • 3 min read

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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,

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5 Apr 2019 • 9 min read

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

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5 Mar 2019 • 3 min read

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

Steven Burgess

26 Feb 2019 • 4 min read

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

[reposted from the Global Young Academy website] [https://globalyoungacademy.net/national-youth-academy-of-chile-proposed-during-present-and-future-of-science-in-chile-symposium/] by eLife Ambassador Fernando Valiente-Echeverria On 9 January 2019 the symposium titled ‘Present and Future of Science in Chile’

Steven Burgess

5 Feb 2019 • 1 min read

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

by Sarvenaz Sarabipour Imagine spending months trouble-shooting a technique when another researcher has already done so and recorded in a lab book or a private computer in the lab. Lenny

Steven Burgess

29 Jan 2019 • 5 min read

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]

ecrLife

22 Jan 2019 • 6 min read

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]

ecrLife

22 Jan 2019 • 6 min read

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

Anne Martin

18 Jan 2019 • 6 min read

Publishing

On preprints and journal clubs

By Steven Burgess (@sjb015 [https://twitter.com/sjb015]) When will you get round to that paper that you keep meaning to read – but only after you have done one more

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8 Jan 2019 • 6 min read

eLife Ambassadors organise a Career Day in Paris

By Pablo J. Sáez (@pj_saez [https://twitter.com/pj_saez]), Postdoctoral fellow at Institut Curie, eLife Ambassador. A lot of young scientists around you, like myself, may have made

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27 Dec 2018 • 4 min read

eLife Ambassadors' take on the most important career questions facing young scientists

This is the first of a two-part series where a group of eLife Ambassadors share their take on the questions that will shape their careers as scientists and mentors. Doing

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26 Dec 2018 • 6 min read

elife supports the 2018 San Francisco Bay Area Postdocs Symposium!

Symposium Co-Chair Roel Van Beeumen (LBNL) welcomes postdocs from around the SF Bay Area On September 8th, 2018, postdocs from around the San Francisco Bay Area attended 3rd edition of

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2 Nov 2018 • 3 min read

elife supports the 2018 San Francisco Bay Area Postdocs Symposium!

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2 Nov 2018 • 3 min read

Christopher Madan

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27 Sep 2018 • 6 min read

What reviewers think (Part 2)

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20 Sep 2018 • 3 min read

What reviewers think (Part 2)

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20 Sep 2018 • 3 min read

Jens Foell

This week we had a pleasure speaking to Dr. Jens Foell for our interview with scientist series. Jens Foell studied psychology at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and received his

Chinmaya Sadangi

6 Sep 2018 • 5 min read

Jens Foell

This week we had a pleasure speaking to Dr. Jens Foell for our interview with scientist series. Jens Foell studied psychology at the University of Tübingen (Germany) and received his

Chinmaya Sadangi

6 Sep 2018 • 5 min read

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