Ideas Building a Technology-Savvy Workforce to Drive the Future of Research The pandemic forced scientists to change how they do research. While some of these changes have improved the scientific method, others further increase pre-existing inequities in the research environment. In this post, Adriana Bankston outlines how she envisions the future of the research workforce. Adriana Bankston 17 Feb 2022 • 5 min read
Life in Science How volunteering can support you and your research While life as a scientist can be incredibly rewarding, day-to-day life at the bench can at times feel like a drag. In this post, Katherine MacInnes tells us how transformative it can be to find an extra passion that provides short-term rewards for the soul to keep us healthy and motivated in life. Katherine MacInnes 16 Dec 2021 • 5 min read
Ideas A compilation of web-based resources you should know about as a scientist Do you ever feel lost trying to stay on top of the latest research-related softwares, programs and websites? In this post, we share the work of James Ducker, a PhD student who created a synthesised resource database that contains several useful links, especially for early career scientists. James Ducker, Carolina Paz Quezada 18 Mar 2021 • 3 min read
Careers Why you should consider university-industry collaboration and how to engage in one Are you interested in collaborating with industry, but don't know where or how to start? This blog post has some great clues for you to kickstart the process. Sharon Gill, Ruth Kirk 18 Feb 2021 • 5 min read
Sustainable Science Building a Culture of Remote Science Science lives on exchanging results, ideas, praise and criticism. In this pursuit, we travel vast distances to come face to face with fellow scientists at conferences and other events. While Daniel Müller-Komorowska 24 Jul 2020 • 4 min read
Careers Safety vs freedom: the landscape of post-PhD careers Like so many others, we faced a huge dilemma at the end of our respective PhD programs: after many long years of working in the lab: where do we go Natalia Bielczyk, Elisenda Bonet-Carne 23 Apr 2020 • 6 min read
Sustainable Science How one university is green-ing up its act Scientific research has been estimated [https://www.nature.com/articles/528479c] to produce 5.5 million tonnes of plastic waste globally. Recognising that the world is facing a climate emergency Melanie Krause 24 Mar 2020 • 6 min read
Careers Fighting the impact factor, one CV at a time The impact factor is probably one of the most loved and hated bibliographic indicators in the scientific community. It is a simple number, really. It reflects the number of citations Guillaume Lobet 15 Jan 2020 • 6 min read
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
Mentoring 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
Ideas 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 ecrLife 13 Jun 2019 • 5 min read
