It is not easy being a successful young scientist. The numbers do not lie: there is more competition for fewer tenure track positions and grant funding success rates have reached an all-time low. If you have a tenure track position and hold a grant, consider yourself lucky! In October last year, Nature published an article entitled Young, talented and fed-up.
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I have completed undergraduate level research, a Master’s degree, a PhD, and two post-docs, yet I have never been taught or told how I should organize the files and folders related to a project. Being organized is essential in most aspects of life, and this is particularly trying when conducting research. I only found a few online examples of blogs
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Increasing awareness of the lack of reproducibility in research has prompted many scientists and other professionals to develop strategies to improve research reproducibility. One key reason why there is so much waste in biomedical research is because many reports of research are incomplete or inaccurate. One group that has endeavoured improve the reporting of health research by developing reporting guidelines
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In December 2016, the Journal of Applied Physiology commenced the series Cores of Reproducibility in Physiology (CORP) to highlight the lack of reproducibliity in physiology research and provide solutions. In the first CORP article, statistician Dogulas Curran-Everett explains that to improve reproducibility in research, experiments and analyses need to minimise false positive and false negative findings. The false positive rate
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