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. 2020 Jun 25;181(7):1445-1449.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.045. Epub 2020 Jun 12.

How Support of Early Career Researchers Can Reset Science in the Post-COVID19 World

Erin M Gibson  1 , F Chris Bennett  2 , Shawn M Gillespie  3 , Ali Deniz Güler  4 , David H Gutmann  5 , Casey H Halpern  6 , Sarah C Kucenas  4 , Clete A Kushida  7 , Mackenzie Lemieux  8 , Shane Liddelow  9 , Shannon L Macauley  10 , Qingyun Li  11 , Matthew A Quinn  12 , Laura Weiss Roberts  7 , Naresha Saligrama  5 , Kathryn R Taylor  3 , Humsa S Venkatesh  3 , Belgin Yalçın  3 , J Bradley Zuchero  6
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How Support of Early Career Researchers Can Reset Science in the Post-COVID19 World

Erin M Gibson et al. Cell. .

Abstract

The COVID19 crisis has magnified the issues plaguing academic science, but it has also provided the scientific establishment with an unprecedented opportunity to reset. Shoring up the foundation of academic science will require a concerted effort between funding agencies, universities, and the public to rethink how we support scientists, with a special emphasis on early career researchers.

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Declaration of Interests Dr. Roberts serves as Editor-in-Chief of books for the American Psychiatric Association Publishing Division and as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Academic Medicine. Unrelated to this publication, Dr. Roberts serves as an advisor for the Bucksbaum Institute of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and owns the small business Terra Nova Learning Systems.

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The COVID19 crisis has magnified the systemic issues plaguing academic research. These include the often stifling excess requirements in publication, tenure, and grant processes; the reliance on funding from national agencies that is catered towards senior level researchers; and the lack of diversity in academic research due to the attrition of women and racial or ethnic minorities during early career stages.
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