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Research Funding and European Competitiveness: Beyond the Myth of Competitive Excellence

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Research Funding and European Competitiveness: Beyond the Myth of Competitive Excellence

Academic research depends on public funds, generally obtained through competitive applications. While competitive funding structures aim to identify the best research projects, Luigi Capoani uses European case studies to weigh on the strengths and limitations of such structures.

12 Nov 2026 • 6 min read

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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

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.

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

2 Nov 2018 • 3 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

2 Nov 2018 • 3 min read

Christopher Madan

Christopher Madan

This week we had a pleasure of speaking to Dr. Christopher Madan. Christopher is an assistant professor in the school of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Tell us about

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

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

Shruti Muralidhar

Chinmaya Sadangi

11 Aug 2018 • 3 min read

Shruti Muralidhar

Chinmaya Sadangi

11 Aug 2018 • 3 min read

“Give a scientist a tool and you feed science for a day. Teach a scientist to be open and you feed science for a lifetime.”

7 Aug 2018 • 2 min read

“Give a scientist a tool and you feed science for a day. Teach a scientist to be open and you feed science for a lifetime.”

7 Aug 2018 • 2 min read

Boosting early-career involvement in peer-review - an update

by Steven Burgess Back in March we invited people to join an early-career researcher (ECR) reviewer pool [https://ecrlife.org/boosting-ecr-involvement-in-peer-review/], which aims to

31 Jul 2018 • 2 min read

Boosting early-career involvement in peer-review - an update

by Steven Burgess Back in March we invited people to join an early-career researcher (ECR) reviewer pool [https://ecrlife.org/boosting-ecr-involvement-in-peer-review/], which aims to

31 Jul 2018 • 2 min read

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