Avoiding a lost generation of scientists

Elife. 2016 May 13:5:e17393. doi: 10.7554/eLife.17393.

¹ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
² Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
³ Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
⁴ Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
⁵ Department of Biological Sciences, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, United States.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.
⁷ Picower Institute for Learning & Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
⁸ Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.

Abstract

By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.

Keywords: advocacy; careers in science; early career researcher; funding; postdoc; science policy.