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“The transition from academia to industry can be intimidating”: Career insights...

"Toto, we’re not in academia anymore…" …this was one of the first sentences I said when I walked into my new office in Boston, USA,...
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Mind your Mind: Mental health During Your PGR Journey

"Mens sana in corpore sano" ("a healthy mind in a healthy body") is a quote from the poet Juvenal which highlights the importance of...

VIDEO: Why are papers rejected? How can you become a peer-reviewer?...

At the Virtual EACR Congress in June, we gathered senior editors from top cancer research journals for an insightful discussion about scientific publication. Professors Alberto...

How and Where to Write a Thesis

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a Ph.D. student in possession of data must be in want of a...

Time management tips for PhD students

"Tempus Fugit, Time Matters" Every time I meet PhD students at the beginning of their career, I’m always asking them: Are you seriously taking into...

Mental health in research: What if we can’t cope on our...

This is the last in a short series of articles about mental health in research, adapted from a project Marta Oliveira, Laura Breimann and Lorena...

How To Be PhD-Productive When You’re Just Not Feeling It

by Nicola Faramarzi We all have those days during a PhD where getting into the lab is a major struggle. Life as a cancer researcher...

Top 10 PhD survival tips from current students

by Sophie Roper There is no doubt about it, #PhDLife really is a rollercoaster. It is full of highs and lows, twists and turns, and...

The elephant in the lab: Impostor Phenomenon

by Tamara Sutus Temovski Impostor phenomenon (IP), impostor syndrome or fraud syndrome is a term coined in 1978 by clinical psychologists Dr. Pauline R. Clance...

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