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Training and funding for mentoring, together with metrics to measure success, can ensure this vital practice is beneficial for all mentees, at all stages of their career, argues Michal Elovitz.

As a budding scientist in a resource-limited setting, collaboration has been invaluable to my progress so far, writes Bridgious Walusimbi.

Increasing awareness and better technology bodes for a more positive future for scientists who are deaf or hard of hearing, explains John Dennehy.

Being a postdoctoral researcher opens many doors, but it can also bring feelings of loneliness and uncertainty, which are exacerbated during a pandemic. Making career choices that support and strengthen mental health should be normalized, writes Ann Gregory.

Focused research efforts provide important advances in science, but huge global problems will only be solved through interdisciplinary collaborations, argues David Ng.

Many women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) need to make decisions about marital name change, and have to consider how this might affect their publication record and future career. Mentorship that considers race, ethnicity, culture, religion and parenting, as well as a centralized system to dynamically and retroactively streamline name change, will promote agency and choice for women navigating STEM careers, writes Bala Chaudhary.

The sciences will never be a truly equitable workplace as long as patriarchy, racism and oppressive social norms persist, writes Kelly Ramirez.

One of the most powerful yet little-recognized benefits of visualization is the way it synthesizes our knowledge and externalizes our mental models of the science.

Training in visualization should be a part of every scientist’s journey.

Interactive annotation and commenting tools provide a means to ground animations in experimental evidence and to support scientific discourse and progress.