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Is the reproducibility crisis fuelling poor mental health in science?

An inability to focus during a weekend trip forced Jeff Clements to ponder often-overlooked drivers of academic mental health.
  1. Jeff C. Clements

    1. Jeff C. Clements recently completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and currently works as a research scientist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

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On a cloudy October afternoon in 2015, I set off on a drive to my partner’s home. I was living apart from her while finishing my PhD, as many early-career researchers (ECRs) do. The drive through New Brunswick, Canada — from Saint John to Moncton — was long and boring, but I made a point of visiting every weekend.

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Nature 582, 300 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01642-9

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