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Better mentoring stands to boost junior researchers’ mental health

  1. Tatyana Perlova

    1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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We contend that the incentive for faculty members to invest in mentoring is limited because of the disempowering structure of academia (see Nature 552, 5; 2017). This leaves graduate students and postdocs with a sense of isolation and without perspective on their accomplishments, both of which contribute to the mental-health problems experienced by many junior researchers.

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Nature 554, 31 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-01286-w

T.P. writes on behalf of 5 signatories (see Supplementary Information for a full list).

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