Lessons of COVID-19: A roadmap for post-pandemic science

Abstract

The response to the COVID-19 crisis across most research institutions mandated ceasing nonessential research activities in order to minimize the spread of the virus in our communities. With minimal notice, experiments were terminated, cell lines were frozen, mouse colonies were culled, and trainees were prevented from performing bench research. Still, despite the interruption of experimental productivity, the shutdown has proven for many PIs and trainees that doing and thinking science are not activities that are bound to the laboratory. Furthermore, the shutdowns have solidified important emerging trends and forced us to further innovate to get the most out of working remotely. We hope that some of these innovations, hard-gained in this difficult time, will persist and develop into new paradigms—lessons that will improve our science and our relationship to the climate and community beyond the current pandemic.

Creativity and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…This has implications for human resource management: a “new reality” that offers new opportunities to which organizational scholars and practitioners will need and want to remain attentive 70 . Innovations in science persist after the Corona pandemic 71 . Therefore, scientific public interest should be present regardless of a pandemic, as should the consensus that society needs science.…”

Impact of COVID-19 social distancing on medical research from the perspective of postgraduate students: a cross-sectional online survey

“…Medical postgraduate students who were laboratory researchers were 2.31 times more likely to be affected by social distancing than clinical researchers. With minimal preparation for unplanned lab closures, cell lines in proliferation had to be frozen, mouse colonies in reproduction had to be culled, and ongoing experiments had to be terminated abruptly ( Freedman et al, 2020 ). Although clinical researchers also faced challenges, remote measures, such as telephone and video visits, internet monitoring, and electronic capture of signatures and data, largely offset the negative effects of social distancing ( Marcum et al, 2020 ; Tavazzi, 2021 ; Valmorri et al, 2021 ).…”

Cidade Pandêmica: Passado, Presente E Futuro

“…Por consenso ou imposição, inúmeras mudanças têm desenvolvido formas remotas de trabalho e sociabilidade, além de alterações espaciais para a vidades seguras (OECD, 2020), mesmo diante da incompreensão daquelas que resis rão no futuro (Freedman et al, 2020;Scudellari, 2020) e das incertezas de tempos subsequentes pelas modifi cações transformadoras da recente crise mundial (Telen et al, 2021). Nesse âmbito, adiante são interpretadas algumas alterna vas para espaços urbanos em períodos síncronos e posteriores à , voltadas à necessária preparação das cidades para novos eventos similares Kleinman, 2022;UNESCO, 2020), em associação com princípios de sustentabilidade e resiliência em termos sico-ambientais, socioeconômicos, técnico-tecnológicos e polí coins tucionais.…”