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  1. Can a system that uses trainees as labour be fair?

    In Voices, Fátima Sancheznieto unpacks the blurred line between training and exploitation, and what needs to change in how we value scientific work.

    Listen now: elife-container.pubpub.org/com
    #ECRChat #ResearchCulture #PhDChat

  2. "We can all contribute to a more failure-friendly research culture!"
    - Why talking about failure matters.
    Excellent post by Taryn Bell, Anna Pilz and Dr Johanna Stadlbauer, on The Auditorium blog, 1 September 2025.
    theauditorium.blog/2025/09/01/
    #FailureInAcademia #ECRchat #ResearcherDevelopment

  3. "Combatting science denialism depends on community-level collaborations, not individuals. In particular, experts need to be supported by academic and research institutions, policymakers, and journalists." - New paper: science denial, insect apocalypse and biodiversity loss, by @manusaunders on the Ecology is Not a Dirty Word blog.
    #ECRchat #ResearchCommunication #SciComm #ScienceDenialism #BiodiversityLoss
    ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/202

  4. "Combatting science denialism depends on community-level collaborations, not individuals. In particular, experts need to be supported by academic and research institutions, policymakers, and journalists." - New paper: science denial, insect apocalypse and biodiversity loss, by @manusaunders on the Ecology is Not a Dirty Word blog.
    #ECRchat #ResearchCommunication #SciComm #ScienceDenialism #BiodiversityLoss
    ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/202

  5. "Combatting science denialism depends on community-level collaborations, not individuals. In particular, experts need to be supported by academic and research institutions, policymakers, and journalists." - New paper: science denial, insect apocalypse and biodiversity loss, by @manusaunders on the Ecology is Not a Dirty Word blog.
    #ECRchat #ResearchCommunication #SciComm #ScienceDenialism #BiodiversityLoss
    ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/202

  6. "Combatting science denialism depends on community-level collaborations, not individuals. In particular, experts need to be supported by academic and research institutions, policymakers, and journalists." - New paper: science denial, insect apocalypse and biodiversity loss, by @manusaunders on the Ecology is Not a Dirty Word blog.
    #ECRchat #ResearchCommunication #SciComm #ScienceDenialism #BiodiversityLoss
    ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/202

  7. "Combatting science denialism depends on community-level collaborations, not individuals. In particular, experts need to be supported by academic and research institutions, policymakers, and journalists." - New paper: science denial, insect apocalypse and biodiversity loss, by @manusaunders on the Ecology is Not a Dirty Word blog.
    #ECRchat #ResearchCommunication #SciComm #ScienceDenialism #BiodiversityLoss
    ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/202

  8. 🚨 Job Alert🚨

    Postdoctoral position at Uni Melbourne in palaeoecology as part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Environmental Histories and Futures.

    jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/919

    *Limited to people who already have working rights in Australia, unfortunately.

    #ECRchat #AcademicChatter #FediHire #GetFediHired

  9. Great #PostDoc opportunity at #UNSW - the successful applicant will use climate model simulations to investigate the climate processes that lead to relationships between climate state, rainfall intensity, and groundwater recharge.

    #ECR #ECRChat #AcademicChatter

    external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu

  10. Fantastic PhD opportunity at Northumbria University with Dr. Monika Markowska -"Unravelling past dryland hydroclimate"

    findaphd.com/phds/project/unra

    Mon is a good egg - maybe the most important criteria for doing a PhD!

    #PhD #phdPosition #ECR #ECRChat #AcademicChatter

  11. Hey brains trust, I am facilitating some #ShutUpAndWrite sessions at #MPIC for the next 6 weeks. We are doing 2 hour sessions. I'm planning ten minutes of 'intention setting', 50 minutes of work, then a 10 minute break to chat, then 50 minutes work.

    Any suggestions welcome. I've done pomodoros in the past, but found a lot of the group wouldwork through the five minute break.

    #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #writing #pomodoro

  12. Hey brains trust, I am facilitating some #ShutUpAndWrite sessions at #MPIC for the next 6 weeks. We are doing 2 hour sessions. I'm planning ten minutes of 'intention setting', 50 minutes of work, then a 10 minute break to chat, then 50 minutes work.

    Any suggestions welcome. I've done pomodoros in the past, but found a lot of the group wouldwork through the five minute break.

    #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #writing #pomodoro

  13. Hey brains trust, I am facilitating some #ShutUpAndWrite sessions at #MPIC for the next 6 weeks. We are doing 2 hour sessions. I'm planning ten minutes of 'intention setting', 50 minutes of work, then a 10 minute break to chat, then 50 minutes work.

    Any suggestions welcome. I've done pomodoros in the past, but found a lot of the group wouldwork through the five minute break.

    #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #writing #pomodoro

  14. Hey brains trust, I am facilitating some #ShutUpAndWrite sessions at #MPIC for the next 6 weeks. We are doing 2 hour sessions. I'm planning ten minutes of 'intention setting', 50 minutes of work, then a 10 minute break to chat, then 50 minutes work.

    Any suggestions welcome. I've done pomodoros in the past, but found a lot of the group wouldwork through the five minute break.

    #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #writing #pomodoro

  15. Hey brains trust, I am facilitating some #ShutUpAndWrite sessions at #MPIC for the next 6 weeks. We are doing 2 hour sessions. I'm planning ten minutes of 'intention setting', 50 minutes of work, then a 10 minute break to chat, then 50 minutes work.

    Any suggestions welcome. I've done pomodoros in the past, but found a lot of the group wouldwork through the five minute break.

    #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #writing #pomodoro

  16. 6 years since my post-PhD bike tour in Patagonia. The friction between being career oriented and pursuing that ephemeral research career, while also being constantly tempted to sell all my stuff and travel the world is real.

    I ended my PhD completely burned out and a husk of a person. Spending 3 months in a tent cycling and hiking every day, rising and sleeping with the sun, was so restorative.

    #patagonia #ECRchat #dreaming

  17. It seems that MCRs may just be 'ageing out' as more senior academics delay retirement/there are no new positions being created. In conversation about this with my office mate, we were discussing what it will be like when we are old academics (assuming we snag that dream job somewhere), and delaying our own retirement because we will probably still be paying off our homes, as the longer duration spent postdocing now delays those 'adult' decisions. (2/2)

    #MCRchat #ECRchat #AcademicChatter

  18. The past few years, we have been collecting demographic data with conference registration for the association I'm involved in. My Friday Fun was to pull the data together and have a look, and as usual, it's kind of depressing (if you are stuck in postdoc limbo, and/or Not A Man). The trend of declining representation of Not Men with career progression no longer shocks me. What stood out to me this year was the high number of academics relative to MCRs. (1/2)

    #MCRchat #ECRchat #AcademicChatter

  19. In today's attempt to be a more organised person, how are people organising their notes/annotated bibliographies? I'm trying to become more methodical with my reading and note taking.

    Vielen dank!

    #academia #AskAcademia #AcademicChatter #ECRchat #postdoc

  20. What kind of prospects are #PhDs and postdocs facing today?

    A new #MetaResearch article looked at 24 years of career and publication outcomes of early career researchers trained at EMBL. #ECR #ECRchat #PHDlife elifesciences.org/articles/787

  21. Lab days are an exercise in zen. Nothing like watching all the careful organisation go out the window. Of course, not preparing isn't an option either.

    #LAICPMS #MassSpectrometry #ECRchat

  22. I wrote this post about my experience striking for the first time as an early career researcher

    thompsonj.github.io/strikes

    Despite the stress and unpleasantness, I've found immense inspiration in the strikes.

    #OxfordUCU #ucuRISING #ucustrikes #ecrchat

  23. I wrote this post about my experience striking for the first time as an early career researcher

    thompsonj.github.io/strikes

    Despite the stress and unpleasantness, I've found immense inspiration in the strikes.

    #OxfordUCU #ucuRISING #ucustrikes #ecrchat

  24. I wrote this post about my experience striking for the first time as an early career researcher

    thompsonj.github.io/strikes

    Despite the stress and unpleasantness, I've found immense inspiration in the strikes.

    #OxfordUCU #ucuRISING #ucustrikes #ecrchat

  25. I wrote this post about my experience striking for the first time as an early career researcher

    thompsonj.github.io/strikes

    Despite the stress and unpleasantness, I've found immense inspiration in the strikes.

    #OxfordUCU #ucuRISING #ucustrikes #ecrchat

  26. I wrote this post about my experience striking for the first time as an early career researcher

    thompsonj.github.io/strikes

    Despite the stress and unpleasantness, I've found immense inspiration in the strikes.

    #OxfordUCU #ucuRISING #ucustrikes #ecrchat

  27. What are the most important pieces of advice for early career researchers thinking about writing an NIH grant? What was most useful to you, or what do you wish you had known but didn’t?

    Happy to hear the worst advice also… 😬

    #GrantWriting #NIHgrants #science #neuroscience #ecrchat #ECRgrantAdvice @academicchatter

  28. 📢CALL FOR PAPERS

    Pleased to announce that I'll be co-editing the forthcoming RAISE SEHEJ Special Issue 2023 with John Lean, Stuart Sims & Wilko Luebsen!

    Inviting colleagues to submit!

    👉🏻Abstract by 31st Jan 2023: bit.ly/3VVel1o
    👉🏻Details: bit.ly/3UUFosy

    #highered #studentengagement #research #journal #ecr #academicchatter @academicchatter #phdlife #ecrchat #phdchat #lthechat