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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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Is Grad School For Me? [PDF]

open access: yes1998 Annual Conference Proceedings, 2020
Comment: 15 ...
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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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The hidden perks of grad school [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2016
When I was in grad school, I couldn't wait to get out. The learning curve was distressingly steep, everyone seemed to know more than I did, and I was scraping by at just above the poverty line. That's why, after successfully convincing the university that I could graduate without being a total embarrassment, I was thrilled to take a job with a small ...
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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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Decoupling of the minority PhD talent pool and assistant professor hiring in medical school basic science departments in the US

open access: yeseLife, 2016
Faculty diversity is a longstanding challenge in the US. However, we lack a quantitative and systemic understanding of how the career transitions into assistant professor positions of PhD scientists from underrepresented minority (URM) and well ...
Kenneth D Gibbs Jr   +3 more
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