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Early-career researchers: choose change, not complicity

  1. Lucrecia K. Aguilar

    1. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Early-career researchers generally are ardent supporters of greater diversity, equity and inclusion, work–life balance and mental well-being in academia. Yet the precariousness of our careers seems to demand a default to an academic system that perpetuates injustices and poor quality of life (K. N. Laland Nature 584, 653–654 (2020); E. N. Satinsky et al. Sci. Rep. 11, 14370; 2021). We must apply the changes we wish to see in academia to our own lives if the system is to work better for everyone.

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Nature 597, 31 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02355-3

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