#early-career-researchers

#early-career-researchers

CIRC posts come with excellent resources and generous salaries. But the current round is being filled on an extraordinarily tight timeline. We assume that this is to take advantage of some US scholars' urgency to leave, and to keep pace with other countries hoping to achieve similar results (such as France, which is running a high-profile campaign to lure US scholars).

"we were all in tears"

"I refused to go largely in solidarity with the countries who Trump targeted for visa exclusions," said Murakami Wood, a criminology professor at the University of Ottawa. "This time ... it's even worse. It's not specific countries [being targeted], but we're seeing people being arbitrarily arrested and taken off the streets, deportations, people being arrested in transit."

Yet ECRs face a significant risk by solely relying on institutional platforms for their digital footprint: information portability. While university websites offer high visibility as trusted sources, most ECRs on short-term contracts lose web and email access as soon as their contracts expire. This often forces a hasty rebuild of their online presence precisely when they need to navigate critical career transitions.

Repeated data collection through field campaigns, experiments, and high-performance computing significantly contributes to emissions, necessitating considerable funding and labor from researchers.

At the start of this year, Nature began a co-reviewing project designed to encourage established academics to mentor early-career researchers (ECRs) in carrying out peer review.