"At the time, these students expressed anxiety about their prospects as they prepared to enter the job market - citing concerns around substantial cuts to US scientific funding, the war in Gaza and lingering delays to PhD projects caused by the pandemic - but also a strong desire to remain in science."
"Five students explain how the shadow of COVID-19 continues to shape their careers, and how the chaos of US President Donald Trump's second administration has reverberated across academia, disrupting plans and shifting priorities far beyond the United States."
"Fortunately, the impacts of COVID-19 were not as serious in South Korea as they were in other countries because we didn't have a heavy lockdown. And because I was living on campus, I was free to go to the laboratory. It would have been disastrous if things had been different."
Early-career researchers across multiple countries experienced prolonged effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including delayed experiments, quarantine requirements and interrupted laboratory access. Geopolitical events and policy changes, such as reduced US scientific funding and turmoil associated with US administration shifts and the war in Gaza, intensified anxiety about academic job prospects and career stability. Many recent PhD graduates responded by seeking opportunities abroad, following advisors' moves, or planning temporary international work before returning home. Despite disruptions and uncertainty, these graduates remain optimistic and express a commitment to build research careers and to support the next generation of early-career scientists.
Read at Nature
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]