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Equity

        
            Life in Science
        
    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.
        
ecrLife editors

    21 May 2026
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    8 min read
    
            Life in Science
        
    Overcoming hardships for internationals in academia
            Doing research abroad is a dream for many scientists. However, the road is not always smooth: it takes time to master the social and bureaucratic aspects. Here, Yseult, Ankita, and Ruchika explain some of these challenges and how to help our international colleagues feel at home.
        
Multiple authors

    14 Mar 2024
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    5 min read
    
            Life in Science
        
    Academic unions - Rectifying myths based on frontline experiences
            Early Career Scientists often find themselves in vulnerable situations, so it's important to put systems in place for their voices to be heard. Danny Doucette explains how academic unions provide such a platform, but also how unionization is at times hindered by bureaucracy or lack of confidence.
        
Danny Doucette

    1 May 2023
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    5 min read
    
            eLife Ambassadors
        
    Learning how to change the research environment as an eLife  Community Ambassador
            Research can be incredibly rewarding, but there are a lot of hurdles along the way. Some of these relate to our environments and are difficult to overcome. In this post, Maria Sol Ruiz and Nalaka Wijekoon explain how to take matters into our own hands and step up to induce global change.
        
ecrLife editors

    4 Oct 2022
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    7 min read
    
            Accessible Science
        
    The Invisible Barriers in STEM Education faced by Hard-of-hearing/Deaf Scientists
            The difficulties faced by hard-of-hearing/deaf early career scientists not only come from physiological differences but also significantly from stereotypes that exist against us. What kind? Read about it in this article.
        
Tom (Lok Ming) Tam

    21 Jan 2021
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    6 min read
    
            Accessible Science
        
    Disability in STEM: A conversation with Dr. Mahita Jarjapu
            Science is difficult, but becomes even more so if you have a disability. In this interview, Dr. Mahita Jarjapu sheds light on her journey as a deaf scientist, sharing with us the biggest challenges in her career, and giving suggestions on how we can contribute to make science more accessible.
        
Madhumala Sadanandappa

    14 Jan 2021
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    6 min read
    
            Equity
        
    The Science of Invisible Women
            Lab bench too high? Lab jacket doesn’t fit? These common issues experienced by women in science may not come as a surprise after reading Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. Here, we discuss our thoughts on this book and how scientific research has been built around the “Reference Man”.
        
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Community Ambassador Book Club

    10 Dec 2020
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    5 min read
    
            Equity
        
    Hurdles and advances to making science gender-neutral
            Does science have a gender? What can we do to keep on improving women representation in STEM? Find answers to these and other fundamental questions regarding gender equity in this post.
        
GSA Communications & Outreach Subcommittee

    26 Nov 2020
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    7 min read
    
            Equity
        
    Distance Learning, STEM Education, and Equity
            Can we engage students in STEM subjects under distance learning conditions? How do we maintain high quality education for everyone in this context? See the key points on this topic through the eyes of a STEM educator.
        
Kristen Vogt Veggeberg

    5 Nov 2020
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    4 min read
    
            Life in Science
        
    Making science more inclusive for trans scientists
            Many scientists who identify as trans suffer from discrimination. Nearly 50% of
trans people in physics have experienced exclusionary behavior in their
workplace, according to a 2016 report from the
        
Dori Grijseels

    18 May 2020
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    4 min read
    
            Equity
        
    Intersectionality: what it means
            Consider two female scientists, a heterosexual black woman and an LGBTQ white
woman. Both scientists fall under the "woman" umbrella identity, but will have
faced entirely different forms
        
Sarah Hainer, Ashley Albright

    7 May 2020
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    5 min read
    
            Equity
        
    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,
        
ecrLife

    5 Apr 2019
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    9 min read

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