Kategorie: English
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Sciences dies if your working time is tracked!
The rulings of the European Court of Justice and the Federal Labor Court on mandatory working time recording marked a turning point for universities because they make it clear that higher education institutions must also introduce reliable systems. For us as the Federal Association of Doctoral Candidates, this is an important step because many young…
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Research on mental health among early-career scientists
We all work as doctoral students in Germany in many different fields and with very different backgrounds, but time and again it becomes clear that many problems affect us all equally. One of the biggest and most frequently underestimated issues is mental health. This problem area is not only a concern for doctoral student representatives,…
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Publish or Perish, and the Gatekeeping Power of Reviewer 2
You hit “submit,” take a deep breath, and hope the reviewers will understand what you’ve worked on for months or even years. After weeks of waiting, the reviews arrive. Reviewer 1 offers constructive feedback, but Reviewer 2 seems to have read an entirely different paper—raising questions that miss the point and comments that make you…