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            Life in Science
        
    Towards an increased awareness on the importance of Computational Reproducibility in Biological Sciences in Latin America
            Collaboration helps push science forward. However, its power depends on us sharing workflows, reagents, and results that our colleagues can reproduce. Here, a team of ECRs share how they came together with the mission of making science more reproducible and their upcoming projects.
        
Reprodutibilidade Computacional Bio

    31 Aug 2023
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            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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            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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            Open Science
        
    Getting to know “Sciety”
            In terms of fast communication and equity, preprints are invaluable for all researchers. In this post, we wanted to show you a bit more about Sciety, how it works, and the important role it plays on providing easy access to relevant preprints for the whole biomedical community.
        
Sciety team, Carolina Paz Quezada

    23 Sep 2021
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    3 min read
    
            Open Science
        
    Making science more understandable
            Misinformation is one of the biggest problems of the internet era. What is our role as scientists? What is the best way to contribute, and communicate science to society? In this post, Elisabeth Marnik presents a list of key points to address these issues and make science more approachable.
        
Elisabeth Marnik

    8 Apr 2021
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            Publishing
        
    Why you should publish your work as a Preprint - A conversation with Dr. Prachee Avasthi
            We had the chance to talk to Prachee Avasthi, president of ASAPBio, who answered all our questions about preprints. She showed us how early career scientists can get involved in the publishing and reviewing process of preprints, and how it can benefit us all!
        
Nele Haelterman, ecrLife editors

    1 Apr 2021
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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
    
            Open Science
        
    How to start an open science initiative
            It has been 8 years since Simmons and colleagues’ article
[https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417632] “False-Positive Psychology:
Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting
Anything as Significant”
        
Mariella Paul, Lieneke Janssen

    20 Jan 2020
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    6 min read
    
            Open Science
        
    Encouraging diligent research reporting: A conversation with Dr. Lenny Teytelman
            by Sarvenaz Sarabipour

Imagine spending months trouble-shooting a technique when another researcher has
already done so and recorded in a lab book or a private computer in the lab.
Lenny
        
Steven Burgess

    29 Jan 2019
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    5 min read

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