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Struggling to get started

open access: yeseLife, 2020
As the world attempts to cope with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers about to start PhDs and postdocs face particular challenges.
Andy Tay
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Being vulnerable

open access: yeseLife, 2020
Early-career researchers feel discouraged from exposing vulnerability even during a global crisis.
Jasper Elan Hunt
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Crossing oceans

open access: yeseLife, 2013
Eve Marder explains why all scientists should spend time living and working in a foreign country.
Eve Marder
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The writing on the wall

open access: yeseLife, 2013
The biomedical research enterprise in the US has become unsustainable and urgent action is needed to address a variety of problems, including a lack of innovation, an over-reliance on soft money for faculty salaries, the use of graduate students as a ...
Henry R Bourne
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Barnehagestyreres opplevelser av forholdet til skolen i spørsmål om barns læring

open access: yesNordisk Barnehageforskning, 2017
This study draws attention to what extent directors of private and municipal Early Childhood Centers (ECCs) experience disagreement with school concerning questions about children’s learning in ECCs and the content of this disagreement.
Kari Hoås Moen
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Luck, jobs and learning

open access: yeseLife, 2013
Eve Marder believes that many of the most important events in our lives, both personal and professional, depend to some degree on luck or chance.
Eve Marder
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A recipe for mediocrity and disaster, in five axioms

open access: yeseLife, 2013
Biomedical research in the US will become unsustainable unless scientists and research institutions start to question certain assumptions they have long taken for granted.
Henry R Bourne
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How postdocs benefit from building a union

open access: yeseLife, 2014
Members of UAW 5810—the union for postdoctoral researchers at the University of California—describe how their union has led to improved terms and conditions for postdocs.
Benjamin Cain   +4 more
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A fair deal for PhD students and postdocs

open access: yeseLife, 2013
The relentless expansion that threatens the sustainability of biomedical research in the US takes a heavy toll on young researchers.
Henry R Bourne
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Looking out for future scientists

open access: yeseLife, 2014
Proposals to reduce the number of students who do PhDs are misguided, writes Eve Marder, because they would exclude young scientists with qualities that do not show up in exam results and interviews.
Eve Marder
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