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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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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

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

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

[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-

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

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.

29 Jan 2019 • 5 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/

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/

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

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

8 Jan 2019 • 6 min read

eLife Ambassadors organise a Career Day in Paris

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

27 Dec 2018 • 4 min read

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

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

26 Dec 2018 • 6 min read

elife supports the 2018 San Francisco Bay Area Postdocs Symposium!

2 Nov 2018 • 3 min read

elife supports the 2018 San Francisco Bay Area Postdocs Symposium!

2 Nov 2018 • 3 min read

Christopher Madan

Christopher Madan

27 Sep 2018 • 6 min read

What reviewers think (Part 2)

In our second blog post celebrating Peer Review Week, eLife Ambassador Giulia Bertolin asked a panel of editors and reviewers what they consider is a “Golden Rule for peer review”

20 Sep 2018 • 3 min read

What reviewers think (Part 2)

In our second blog post celebrating Peer Review Week, eLife Ambassador Giulia Bertolin asked a panel of editors and reviewers what they consider is a “Golden Rule for peer review”

20 Sep 2018 • 3 min read

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