eLife Feature Articles allow authors to discuss research culture, science policy and funding, careers in science and a variety of other topics related to science and research.
International early-career researchers navigating doctoral training and postdoctoral fellowships face compounding structural precarity at every stage but also accumulate a distinctive professional toolkit that institutions on both sides are poorly equipped to recognise or support.
Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to such crises?
Responding to reports from peer reviewers is a crucial part of scientific publishing, but early-career researchers are rarely taught about this process.
Sharing positive and negative experiences at lab meetings can make a career in science a little less hard, a little more pleasant, and a little more human.
Ethel Browne Harvey, Hilde Pröscholdt Mangold, Ida Henrietta Hyde and Marthe Gautier all made important contributions to developmental biology, but their names are largely absent from histories of science.
An agreement between universities, research institutes and funders to support the career development of researchers in the UK has led to improvements in research culture since 2019, but there is still more to do.
A survey of more than 200 researchers shows strong support for a new community-driven lab handbook that can be implemented by individual group leaders to reduce conflict and create more positive and equitable work environments.
