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We sometimes use the words "supervisor", "mentor", and "manager" interchangeably...
But they most certainly do not mean the same thing.
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But they most certainly do not mean the same thing.
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Supervisor, Mentor, or Manager?
There are many academia-specific keywords: “grant”, “stipend”, “precarity”. But what is the correct designation for the leader of a research group who writes projects, manages people, supervises stude...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:46 AM
We sometimes use the words "supervisor", "mentor", and "manager" interchangeably...
But they most certainly do not mean the same thing.
Read the post by Luís Oliveira, and subscribe if you like what you read.
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But they most certainly do not mean the same thing.
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I don’t know.
And that sounds like the beginning of something worth investigating.
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And that sounds like the beginning of something worth investigating.
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The nightmare of saying ‘I don’t know’ out loud.
If you ever wondered what the academic equivalent of “the common child’s nightmare of going to school while in your pyjamas” is, chances are most researchers under 40 years old will respond the same:
...
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January 27, 2026 at 9:12 AM
I don’t know.
And that sounds like the beginning of something worth investigating.
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And that sounds like the beginning of something worth investigating.
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Many researchers support Open Science in principle. But if we want a real shift in academic culture, "agreement" alone is not enough.
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People; the problem in Open Science?
If only we fixed the publishing system. If only we fixed the incentives, rewards and recognition. Open Science (OS) likes to position itself as a systems problem. And whilst these things do matter, de...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Many researchers support Open Science in principle. But if we want a real shift in academic culture, "agreement" alone is not enough.
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Independence in research does not come from being abandoned. And good mentorship is not a fixed script.
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Suffer-culture in academia
“I spent the holidays in the lab.”
“I started at 5.00 this morning.”
Have you ever had that person in your team that made sure to explicitly share that they have been working during crazy hours, eve...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Independence in research does not come from being abandoned. And good mentorship is not a fixed script.
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Let's imagine that the scientific paper format didn’t exist. And that there were no journals... How would you share your research?
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Science beyond the paper; blogs, podcasts and video
For most of human history, science has been communicated through the spoken word. Knowledge moved from person to person through oral storytelling and apprenticeship style training. Writing helped to f...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Let's imagine that the scientific paper format didn’t exist. And that there were no journals... How would you share your research?
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Science may be objective..but scientists are not.
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The Scientific Method and The Emotional Damage: A Tale of Two Feelings
Researchers are people of science, of facts, of specifics. With the duty of being unbiased, they set their assumptions aside and prioritize what the data tells them above everything else. And yet, whe...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Science may be objective..but scientists are not.
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We’re addicted to publishing, because the system made it our only currency.
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I’m a scientist and we’re publishing too much
The first step of alcoholics anonymous is to admit you have an addiction (or so the many TV shows tell me). Well, I’m a scientist and science has an addiction. It’s an addiction that every scientist h...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We’re addicted to publishing, because the system made it our only currency.
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You can learn a lot from a bibliography.
And I don’t just mean the science.
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And I don’t just mean the science.
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The politics of citing papers
There was another lab working on our “favorite” protein. Not in our building, and not even in our time zone but our questions and models were quite similar. We knew of them through the usual channels:...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
You can learn a lot from a bibliography.
And I don’t just mean the science.
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And I don’t just mean the science.
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We tell young scientists to be ethical, curious, and rigorous.
Then reward only those who are lucky or good at selling novelty.
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Then reward only those who are lucky or good at selling novelty.
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Ich bin Anna - Part II
✒️Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Catharina Sänger. With a curious mind and a passport full of lab stamps, Catharina has explored science across the globe. She studied Biochemistry in...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We tell young scientists to be ethical, curious, and rigorous.
Then reward only those who are lucky or good at selling novelty.
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Then reward only those who are lucky or good at selling novelty.
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Behind the prestige are broke, burned-out PhDs working way too much and wondering if they are the problem.
They are not.
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They are not.
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Ich bin Anna - Part I
✒️Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Catharina Sänger. With a curious mind and a passport full of lab stamps, Catharina has explored science across the globe. She studied Biochemistry in...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Behind the prestige are broke, burned-out PhDs working way too much and wondering if they are the problem.
They are not.
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They are not.
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One decision that splits your life into the version of you that stays in science, and the one who writes herself out of it.
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Sliding labs
“With the rising competition for funding, securing a grant has become less about advancing science and more about staying in science.”
↪ Mentioned recently in a Nature News article.
As you may know...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
One decision that splits your life into the version of you that stays in science, and the one who writes herself out of it.
Read the post by Leal Oburoglu @lealoburoglu.bsky.social and subscribe if you like what you read.
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The most unexpected discoveries emerge when different disciplines interact.
It’s time to create systems that reward it.
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It’s time to create systems that reward it.
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We Never Cross The Buildings: Why is it so hard to start a collaboration in academia?
✒️Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Altynai Mambetova.
Altynai holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of Manchester. Her background spans data journalism to data ar...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The most unexpected discoveries emerge when different disciplines interact.
It’s time to create systems that reward it.
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It’s time to create systems that reward it.
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We inherited a system rigged against us.
But we learned to run it anyway.
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But we learned to run it anyway.
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - or Being a Woman in Science
Disclaimer
I will speak from my own experience and from what I know the most — the case of being a (European) cisgender woman in academia. I don’t claim to represent or fully understand the struggles...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We inherited a system rigged against us.
But we learned to run it anyway.
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But we learned to run it anyway.
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Open science won’t survive if it treats community like a nice-to-have.
You can’t retrofit culture into systems built without it.
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You can’t retrofit culture into systems built without it.
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The loss of community in open science: a sign of a failing movement?
Open Science (OS) is a movement that aims to bring about a change to the academic publishing system. Yet, despite being around for over 30 years, it has had relatively limited success. Traditional pub...
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October 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Open science won’t survive if it treats community like a nice-to-have.
You can’t retrofit culture into systems built without it.
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You can’t retrofit culture into systems built without it.
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A lab isn’t a family, and it isn’t a kingdom.
Good mentorship dissolves the need to belong to either.
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Good mentorship dissolves the need to belong to either.
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Welcome to the family, call me Professor
When I first started my PhD in France, I couldn’t help but address my PI with the formal “you” in french (“vous”), instead of the informal “you” (“tu”). She was very quick to tell me to use the inform...
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October 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A lab isn’t a family, and it isn’t a kingdom.
Good mentorship dissolves the need to belong to either.
Read the post by Leal Oburoglu (@lealoburoglu.bsky.social) and subscribe if you like what you read.
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Good mentorship dissolves the need to belong to either.
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On paper, it’s a four-year PhD program.
But when peer review eats up half of it, is the timeline still fair?
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But when peer review eats up half of it, is the timeline still fair?
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Accepted: Today | Received: Do You Really Want to Know?
We’ve all peeked at that “Received, Revised, Accepted” section of a paper and instantly regretted it. Those dates often read less like a timeline and more like an archaeological record. And that, kids...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
On paper, it’s a four-year PhD program.
But when peer review eats up half of it, is the timeline still fair?
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But when peer review eats up half of it, is the timeline still fair?
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Another “breakthrough” that changes it all… until the next one.
Every time we oversell science, we teach people not to trust it.
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Every time we oversell science, we teach people not to trust it.
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We finally found a radical and straightforward solution to revolutionize academic publishing!
… gotcha!
You clicked because the title sounded extraordinary, revolutionary, amazing — didn’t it?
And for a while, I found myself reacting the same way you just did. Then, spending a good hour read...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Another “breakthrough” that changes it all… until the next one.
Every time we oversell science, we teach people not to trust it.
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Every time we oversell science, we teach people not to trust it.
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There’s a part of science that doesn’t make it into the manuscript.
That’s the part that makes it worth doing.
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That’s the part that makes it worth doing.
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The split-screen mind of the researcher
“So, what experiment should we do next?” asks the student.
And two different tabs open up side to side in your mind.
Tab 1: Taking a stroll in your field
In this tab, there are no real rules. Yo...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
There’s a part of science that doesn’t make it into the manuscript.
That’s the part that makes it worth doing.
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That’s the part that makes it worth doing.
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Publishing is the currency of academia.
Isn't it surprising that its exchange rate bankrupts the very people creating its value?
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Isn't it surprising that its exchange rate bankrupts the very people creating its value?
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The costs of publishing: financial, career and personal
The current system of recognition in academia is built on a single pillar; publishing. Career advancement is dependent on how much and where you publish. Assessment of “quality” is based on extremely ...
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September 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Publishing is the currency of academia.
Isn't it surprising that its exchange rate bankrupts the very people creating its value?
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Isn't it surprising that its exchange rate bankrupts the very people creating its value?
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The English was flawless, the author was fake, and the data made no sense.
Welcome to the age of artificial "scientific" fluency.
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Welcome to the age of artificial "scientific" fluency.
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ChatGPT et al.
The rise of Large Language Models in academic writing.
Postdoctoral researcher Dr Verena Haage was reviewing a manuscript for a reputable neuroscience journal when she began to notice unusual incon...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The English was flawless, the author was fake, and the data made no sense.
Welcome to the age of artificial "scientific" fluency.
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Welcome to the age of artificial "scientific" fluency.
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“Are you winning?” is the wrong question.
If human knowledge is cumulative, then collaboration isn’t optional.
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If human knowledge is cumulative, then collaboration isn’t optional.
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Are you winning?
By the end of my PhD, I was somewhat disillusioned by the way scientific research worked and decided to pick a field that could open up a (small) door to industry, if I ever decided to take that route...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
“Are you winning?” is the wrong question.
If human knowledge is cumulative, then collaboration isn’t optional.
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If human knowledge is cumulative, then collaboration isn’t optional.
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If a cat can fake citations and win at the h-index "game", why do we let these metrics decide our futures?
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Purr-fect Citations: How a Cat Became the World’s Most Cited Academic
Meet Larry, the Scientific Cat
Larry — a fluffy, slightly overweight cat — has achieved what many postdocs or even professors only dream of: becoming the most cited “author” in his field. Obviously, ...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
If a cat can fake citations and win at the h-index "game", why do we let these metrics decide our futures?
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You do the work. Then you prove you're still worth doing the work, again and again.
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Stranger than Fiction
If doing your job requires constant applications to keep doing it, is that really a “job”?
Why do we need to keep “auditioning” for work we’re already performing?
Let’s first agree that there isn’t...
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July 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
You do the work. Then you prove you're still worth doing the work, again and again.
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You troubleshoot, mentor, bake cakes, shoulder burnouts and fix printers; yet your CV only says ‘postdoc.’ Did you really sign up for this?
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Beyond Useful: When Being the Swiss Knife Backfires
We all know this person. Or we are this person. You troubleshoot broken connections in the lab, fix the department printer, teach undergrads how to use the Nanodrop and pH-meter, and share all your be...
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July 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
You troubleshoot, mentor, bake cakes, shoulder burnouts and fix printers; yet your CV only says ‘postdoc.’ Did you really sign up for this?
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Some treat every paper like their spotlight, forgetting the team writes the story. Others guide students to lead the next paper.
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Every rockstar scientist has an origin story
Six years ago, during a science communication session at a conference, we were given the task to explain “why we do what we do” to people unfamiliar with our research. While having this chat with a fe...
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July 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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