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 • 7 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 • 6 min read
Publishing The Many Languages of Science There are more than 7000 languages in the world. So how do you make sure science communication, which typically happens in English, is accessible to everyone? In this blog post, Kanika Khanna tells us how to engage in and feel comfortable talking about science in a non-English language. Kanika Khanna 10 Nov 2022 • 4 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 • 7 min read
Publishing Why and how to convince lab members to preprint We are entering a new science publishing era that is more open and available, and preprints are such an important factor making the difference! There are so many benefits of preprinting, but there are still some skepticals out there.. Learn how to convince them to join the preprint wonderland here! Ken Hallenbeck 28 Apr 2022 • 4 min read
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 • 7 min read
Publishing An ECR’s guide to peer review As an early career researcher, how do you get invited to review manuscripts? Patricia Resa-Infante, Ewoud Compeer 11 Sep 2020 • 5 min read
Publishing Include junior researchers in peer review We, a group of early career researchers (ECRs) involved in the eLife Community Ambassadors programme, believe that the rigour, speed, and inclusivity of existing peer review processes can be significantly improved by including (more) ECRs. ecrLife 4 Mar 2020 • 4 min read
Publishing What makes a good paper? “What makes a good paper?” is a great question that many scientists still ask themselves when they submit their work for consideration to be published. One of the most common Steven Burgess 26 Feb 2019 • 4 min read
Publishing Creating a research figure: Tips from graphic design Your story is coming together and the data is there, but now comes the part of writing a paper that most researchers have never been formally taught: creating figures. In Anne Martin 18 Jan 2019 • 6 min read
Publishing On preprints and journal clubs By Steven Burgess (@sjb015 [https://twitter.com/sjb015]) When will you get round to that paper that you keep meaning to read – but only after you have done one more ecrLife 8 Jan 2019 • 6 min read
Publishing Beyond bar graphs: free tools and resources for creating more transparent figures for small datasets Over the past few years, many journals have implemented policies banning or discouraging the use of bar graphs for continuous data, especially in small sample size studies. This includes PLOS Rachel Meade 10 Jul 2018 • 4 min read
Publishing Beyond bar graphs: free tools and resources for creating more transparent figures for small datasets Over the past few years, many journals have implemented policies banning or discouraging the use of bar graphs for continuous data, especially in small sample size studies. This includes PLOS Rachel Meade 10 Jul 2018 • 4 min read
Publishing Are scientific societies drifting into irrelevance? Dramatic declines in the output of some society journals over the last five years has led to a shift of power in publishing, raising tough questions for scientific communities ”Peer-reviewed Steven Burgess 19 Jun 2018 • 7 min read
Publishing Are scientific societies drifting into irrelevance? Dramatic declines in the output of some society journals over the last five years has led to a shift of power in publishing, raising tough questions for scientific communities ”Peer-reviewed Steven Burgess 19 Jun 2018 • 7 min read