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Careers 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 Aalok Varma 10 Dec 2019 • 5 min read
Careers 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 ecrLife 27 Dec 2018 • 4 min read
Careers Postdoc interview checklist (Part 1): 10 questions to expect at a postdoc interview When PhDs are exploring career opportunities, it is important to ascertain whether a postdoc would take them closer to their long-term career goal. Most PhDs do a postdoc with the ecrLife 8 Mar 2018 • 4 min read
Careers Postdoc interview checklist (Part 1): 10 questions to expect at a postdoc interview When PhDs are exploring career opportunities, it is important to ascertain whether a postdoc would take them closer to their long-term career goal. Most PhDs do a postdoc with the ecrLife 8 Mar 2018 • 4 min read
