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Tenure denial, and how early-career researchers can survive it

Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.
  1. Josie Glausiusz

    1. Josie Glausiusz is a freelance science journalist in Israel.

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Sibrina Collins felt humiliated when she learnt that her application for tenure had been denied. “That was an extremely painful experience,” she recalls. “You start to question your own intellect — ‘Is it me?’ I was really, really down about it.”

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Nature 565, 525-527 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00219-5

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