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Feb 12, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Abby Olena |Elisa de Ranieri |PhDas a freelancer

From efforts to increase the transparency of the review process to initiatives offering training, there are many attempts underway to make better reviewers out of researchers. © ISTOCK.COM/ERHUI 1979 California State University, Fresno, biologist Ulrike Müller received her worst peer review when she was a graduate student at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Feb 12, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Abby Olena |PhDas a freelancer

We have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. —Craig Roy, Yale UniversityThe quick switch to online classes that happened in March at most US institutions was enacted to keep students and staff healthy. But as institutions prepare for the fall, it’s not clear what science education in the 2020–21 academic year will look like.

Feb 12, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Abby Olena |PhDas a freelancer

And al’Absi isn’t alone. In an age of shifting political climates—namely, Brexit and policies such as US President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration—many researchers are rethinking how they approach international collaborations, as uncertainty abounds about the effects of limiting scientists’ global mobility.