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 to produce 5.5 million tonnes of plastic waste globally. Recognising that the world is facing a climate emergency University College London recently announced a 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 • 5 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
