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Five researchers offer advice on how to recruit and retain talented students and colleagues, based on their own experiences of being hired, and of hiring colleagues to join their research groups. LARA URBAN BE FAIR AND CONSIDER USING SOCIAL MEDIA I began my own research group at Helmholtz Munich, the German Research Center for Environmental Health, in June 2022. [...]I make use of social media, especially Twitter, to share research openings. Lara Urban is a conservation genomics researcher and principal investigator at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus and Helmholtz AI in Munich, Germany, and at the Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences in Freising, Germany.
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As the world attempts to cope with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers about to start PhDs and postdocs face particular challenges.
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Ansiedade/psicologia , Betacoronavirus/patogenicidade , Escolha da Profissão , Infecções por Coronavirus/epidemiologia , Pandemias , Pneumonia Viral/epidemiologia , Pesquisadores/psicologia , Adulto , Pesquisa Biomédica/organização & administração , COVID-19 , Infecções por Coronavirus/psicologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pneumonia Viral/psicologia , Pesquisadores/economia , SARS-CoV-2 , IncertezaRESUMO
The need to protect public health during the current COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated conference cancellations on an unprecedented scale. As the scientific community adapts to new working conditions, it is important to recognize that some of our actions may disproportionately affect early-career researchers and scientists from countries with limited research funding. We encourage all conference organizers, funders and institutions who are able to do so to consider how they can mitigate the unintended consequences of conference and travel cancellations and we provide seven recommendations for how this could be achieved. The proposed solutions may also offer long-term benefits for those who normally cannot attend conferences, and thus lead to a more equitable future for generations of researchers.