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Teaching for the future

open access: yeseLife, 2015
Reading and discussing classic papers can be an effective way of teaching graduate students how to learn the skills they will need for a career in research, as Indira M Raman explains.
Indira M Raman
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Forward Physics at the LHC: within and beyond the Standard Model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We review the detection capabilities in the forward direction of the various LHC experiments together with the associated physics programme. A selection of measurements accessible with near-beam instrumentation in various sectors (and extensions) of the ...
David d’Enterria   +3 more
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How early-career researchers are shaping eLife

open access: yeseLife, 2018
Journals can benefit from listening to graduate students, postdocs and newly-independent group leaders.
Mark Patterson, Randy Schekman
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A grad school survival guide [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2015
Since becoming a postdoc, I've mentored several incoming graduate students. In doing so, I've reflected on my own scientific experiences studying spinal cord injury repair. I've compiled a short tutorial aimed at making the road to a Ph.D. less bumpy, with a focus on the day-to-day tasks that fill a graduate student's life, common hazards to avoid, and
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Strategies from UW-Madison for rescuing biomedical research in the US

open access: yeseLife, 2015
A cross-campus, cross-career stage and cross-disciplinary series of discussions at a large public university has produced a series of recommendations for addressing the problems confronting the biomedical research community in the US.
Judith Kimble   +16 more
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Data-driven advice for grad school [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2020
“Do you have any advice for future graduate students?” I asked. The student had recently defended his Ph.D., and I was conducting an exit interview—something I do with every graduating biomedical Ph.D. student at my university, where I am in charge of evaluating our medical school's Ph.D. training programs.
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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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PROmoting Resilience During GRADuate School and Beyond (PRO-GRAD): A Motivational Coaching Intervention

open access: yesInternational Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 2023
The purpose of this longitudinal, mixed-methods study was two-fold: (1) to investigate the impact of a motivational coaching credit-bearing course on the resilience, mental health, health-related quality of life, compassion, and social support of ...
Katie J. Shillington   +3 more
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Serial assessment of inflammatory biomarkers as a prognostic factor for first-line treatment outcomes in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: single-center retrospective study

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology
BackgroundMetastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is a major cause of cancer-related mortality, with limited curative options despite advances in targeted therapies. Reliable prognostic biomarkers are needed to guide treatment.
Nikša Librenjak   +8 more
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