Actionable recommendations from trainees to improve science training

Davis, Stephanie M.; Singh, Harinder; Weismann, Cara M; Bankston, Adriana; Villalobos, Juan Pablo Ruiz

doi:10.7554/elife.59806

Cited by 6 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This emphasizes how effective research mentoring relationships are critical to developing the next generation of researchers. Concrete examples of recommendations, tools, and resources exist to influence the mentor and mentee relationship (Branchaw, Guerrero, & Pfund, 2020;Davis, Singh, Weismann, Bankston, & Ruiz Villalobos, 2020;House, McDaniels, Spencer, Utzerath, & Pfund, 2020;National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2019, 2020a, 2020b, 2021aPfund, Branchaw, & Handelsman, 2015). Our findings highlight that the key is to implement these strategies with an awareness of equity and inclusion for all trainees (Edwards et al, 2020;Singleton, Tesfaye, Dominguez, & Dukes, 2021).…”

Section: Career Interest and Mentorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors That Influence Career Choice among Different Populations of Neuroscience Trainees

Ullrich

Ogawa

Jones-London

2021

eNeuro

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Specific groups have historically been, and continue to be, underrepresented in the biomedical research workforce, especially academia. Career choice is a multifactorial process that evolves over time; among all trainees, expressed interest in faculty research careers decreases over time in graduate school, but that trend is amplified in women and members of historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups ( Golde and Dore, 2004 ; Fuhrmann et al., 2011 ; Sauermann and Roach, 2012 ; Gibbs et al., 2014 ; Roach and Sauermann, 2017 ). This work was designed to investigate how career interest changes over time among recent neuroscience PhD graduates, and whether differences in career interests are associated with social identity, experiences in graduate school and postdoctoral training, and personal characteristics. We report results from a survey of 1479 PhD neuroscientists (including 16% underrepresented scientists and 54% women scientists). We saw repeated evidence that individual preferences about careers in general, and academic careers specifically, predict current career interest. These findings were moderated by social identity and experiences in graduate school and postdoctoral training. Our findings highlight the important influence of the advisor in shaping a trainee’s career path, and the ways in which academic culture is perceived as unwelcoming or incongruent with the values or priorities of certain groups. They suggest several areas for positive growth, ways to change how we think about the impact of mentorship, and policy and programmatic interventions that extend beyond trying to change or “fix” the individual and instead recognize the systemic structures that influence career choices.

show abstract

Section: Career Interest and Mentorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors That Influence Career Choice among Different Populations of Neuroscience Trainees

Ullrich

Ogawa

Jones-London

2021

eNeuro

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Consequently, substantial overlaps and redundancies, repurposing of original contributions, and arbitrary reassignments of authorship are rarely addressed, besides the recommendations from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Undisclosed biases and conflicts of interest ultimately impact the track record and career progression of the relevant parties, as no corrective, a posteriori remedy is currently undertaken by institutions, editorial boards, or funding agencies [ 428 , 429 , 435 , 436 , 437 , 438 , 439 ]. These findings underscore the importance to allocate equitable funding across the scientific work force and to address such biases, in part by compiling a comprehensive bibliography with the relevant work in literature, to contextually mention it within the text, regardless of the prolificacy, affiliation and position held by the contributors.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Deciphering the Retinal Epigenome during Development, Disease and Reprogramming: Advancements, Challenges and Perspectives

Zibetti

2022

Cells

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Retinal neurogenesis is driven by concerted actions of transcription factors, some of which are expressed in a continuum and across several cell subtypes throughout development. While seemingly redundant, many factors diversify their regulatory outcome on gene expression, by coordinating variations in chromatin landscapes to drive divergent retinal specification programs. Recent studies have furthered the understanding of the epigenetic contribution to the progression of age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The knowledge of the epigenomic mechanisms that control the acquisition and stabilization of retinal cell fates and are evoked upon damage, holds the potential for the treatment of retinal degeneration. Herein, this review presents the state-of-the-art approaches to investigate the retinal epigenome during development, disease, and reprogramming. A pipeline is then reviewed to functionally interrogate the epigenetic and transcriptional networks underlying cell fate specification, relying on a truly unbiased screening of open chromatin states. The related work proposes an inferential model to identify gene regulatory networks, features the first footprinting analysis and the first tentative, systematic query of candidate pioneer factors in the retina ever conducted in any model organism, leading to the identification of previously uncharacterized master regulators of retinal cell identity, such as the nuclear factor I, NFI. This pipeline is virtually applicable to the study of genetic programs and candidate pioneer factors in any developmental context. Finally, challenges and limitations intrinsic to the current next-generation sequencing techniques are discussed, as well as recent advances in super-resolution imaging, enabling spatio-temporal resolution of the genome.

show abstract

“…In the light of the above, in doctoral training, more emphasis should be given to explaining how local research teams actually work. This includes information on the clarity of functions (who will do what), responsibilities, means of communication, general principles for supervision, including giving and receiving feedback (a set of recommendations for establishing a good departmental leadership practice is in Davis et al, 2020 and in Reithmeier & Williams, 2020). It is important that all stakeholders of a research project are involved in this process (supervisors, doctoral candidates, and postdocs alike).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The well‐being and mental health of doctoral candidates

Kismihók

McCashin

Mol

et al. 2022

Euro J of Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

After a long period of relative neglect, the mental well‐being and the mental health of researchers and employees in academia are increasingly entering the limelight. The growing body of evidence suggests that a high number of doctoral researchers work under elevated levels of stress and frustration, and that this has a significant impact not only on their personal health and research output, but also on their future career development. In this paper, therefore, we first discuss what a dystopian and a utopian learning journey of early career researchers may look like from a well‐being perspective. Subsequently, and based on extensive dialogues with more than 250 researchers and professionals active in the researcher mental health domain, we highlight a number of key focal points that both early career researchers, their supervisors, and institutions alike should consider when it comes to planning and delivering mental health oriented educational activities for doctoral researchers.

show abstract

Actionable recommendations from trainees to improve science training

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Factors That Influence Career Choice among Different Populations of Neuroscience Trainees

Factors That Influence Career Choice among Different Populations of Neuroscience Trainees

Deciphering the Retinal Epigenome during Development, Disease and Reprogramming: Advancements, Challenges and Perspectives

The well‐being and mental health of doctoral candidates

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About