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by GYA Executive Committee member Anna Harris (University of Maastricht, Netherlands) (Note: Many thanks to GYA Senior Communications Officer Jim Curtiss for his collaboration on this post.) Facing a paywall A few years ago while I was precariously positioned…
by Roula Inglesi-Lotz, GYA Co-Chair, University of Pretoria, South Africa 23 November 2021 “Early career researchers (ECRs)—PhD students, post-docs as well as recently-appointed principal investigators—constitute a large fraction of the scientific community”.[i] However, ECRs are often excluded from science decision-making…
by Felix Moronta Barrios, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology ICGEB, Italy. 21 October 2021 During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, we have already seen terrorist attacks, financial crashes, new authoritarian governments, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, the…
by Catherine Beaudry, founding member of the GYA and Associate Professor at the Mathematics and Industrial Engineering Department of École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. We live in unprecedented times. Around the world, some are coming out of confinement, some are…
by Abdalhadi Alijla, past GYA Executive Committee member, Co-Founder of the Palestine Young Academy, and Postdoctoral fellow at the Orient-Institute, Beirut Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, “fake news”, that is, unscientific information and untrustworthy news, have made their…
By Paulina Carmona-Mora (University of California Davis, United States) We in the scientific community – including those of us in higher education – have felt the effects the COVID-19 pandemic on science. Indeed, as laid out in the recent 2021…