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Mentoring

        
            Life in Science
        
    Reaching Out to Senior Scientists: A Step Worth Taking
            When we start out as early career researchers, we often hesitate to reach out to senior scientists. However, they are often excited to help young scientists. Here, Owen Ouyang discusses how mentorship, collaborations, and encouragement can come from a simple email to a senior colleague.
        
Owen Ouyang

    3 Jul 2025
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    4 min read
    
            Life in Science
        
    Let’s get rid of confidential ‘reference letters’ in academia — a tool misused by abusive supervisors
            Reference letters hold a lot of power over an academic's career path and can make an ECR's life miserable if they are stuck in an abusive lab. Here, eLife community ambassadors Ruchika, Rio, and Suhaila advocate for alternative ways to get to know an applicant.
        
Multiple authors

    14 Sep 2023
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    6 min read
    
            Careers
        
    My Successful Mentoring Experiment
            Throughout our scientific training process, many of us find ourselves asking if we have what it takes to become a successful mentor. In this blog post, Ruchika Bajaj shares her experience with designing a mentoring experiment to test the hypothesis that she can, and will be a great mentor.
        
Ruchika Bajaj

    3 Aug 2023
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    6 min read
    
            Life in Science
        
    From Lone Wolf to Pack Power: Empowering Early-Career Researchers through Scientific Communities
            Life as a scientist comes with many personal and professional challenges. Thankfully, we do not need to face them alone, as there are many others like us out there. In this post, Yu-Fang Yang shares how she found the best communities for her and how being together lifts everyone up.
        
Yu-Fang Yang

    14 Jul 2023
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    6 min read
    
            Life in Science
        
    Here's how COVID-19 is affecting my first year in graduate school
            The rapidly and constantly evolving COVID-19 situation has dramatically affected
career plans for both early-career faculty
[https://www.chronicle.com/article/Covid-19-Crisis-Widens-Divide/248276] and 
senior graduate students
[https://emergency.rice.
        
Zach Zeisler

    27 Apr 2020
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    5 min read
    
            Mentoring
        
    "My PhD broke me"—bullying in academia and a call to action
            Workplace bullying
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813017965]—repetitive
abusive, threatening, humiliating and intimidating behaviour—is on the rise
globally. And matters are worse in academia. In the
        
ecrLife

    5 Nov 2019
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    8 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
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    6 min read
    
            Mentoring
        
    Assessing the quality of mentorship in research environments
            > A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

Oprah Winfrey
> Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had
        
ecrLife

    5 Mar 2019
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    3 min read

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