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2025-02-28 |
How academia’s ‘lone wolf’ culture is harming researcher mental health Academia’s focus on individual achievement can be a breeding ground for poor mental health, says astrophysicist Kelly Korreck.Korreck, who experienced pandemic-related burnout while working on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, describes a competitive and ulti... |
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2025-02-21 | A relentless pursuit of perfection in science can mean that researchers are in perpetual and self-critical ‘survival mode,’ forever questioning their behaviours and actions in the workplace, says clinical psychologist Desiree Dickerson.“We are not very... | |
2025-02-14 |
‘Researching climate change feels like standing in the path of an approaching train’ Three researchers with personal experience of anxiety and depression triggered by studying the environmental destruction caused by a changing climate describe the steps they take to protect their mental health.Ruth Cerezo-Mota, a climate scientist base... |
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2025-02-07 | Krutika Kuppalli, a physician researcher who studies emerging infectious diseases, started working with the World Health Organization shortly after the the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020.She soon became a target of threats and harassment ... | |
2025-01-31 | Kelly Korreck tells Adam Levy how a once-loved career in science gradually left her feeling exhausted, upset, and chronically stressed, with accompanying feelings of imposter syndrome.In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic deprived Korreck, an astrophysicist th... | |
2025-01-24 | Hilal Lashuel and Dave Reay join Michelle Kimple to talk about faculty mental health and why it is often overlooked.A heart attack in 2016 forced Lashuel, a neurogenerative diseases researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, t... | |
2025-01-17 | Charlotte Roughton says she developed a deep-rooted shame and resentment towards her autism diagnosis, causing her to mask the condition during her biosciences degree at the University of Durham, UK.But socially camouflaging and striving to appear as n... | |
2025-01-10 |
Mind matters: investigating academia’s ‘mental health crisis’ Why do so many academics struggle to ‘power down’ at the end of a long working day, and what are the longer-term health effects of failing to switch off at evenings and weekends?Desiree Dickerson is a clinical psychologist based in Valencia, Spain, who... |
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2024-10-17 |
Four weddings, a funeral, and the Sustainable Development Goal logos Graphic designer Jakob Trollbäck remembers a 2014 meeting with film director Richard Curtis and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, then very much a work in progress, coming up in conversation.Curtis, whose movies include Four Weddings an... |
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2024-10-10 |
A checklist for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals When Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency, sought to change the country’s food systems in 2020, it started by looking at school meals and funding several projects around menus, procurement, and how cafeterias were organised.Breaking down a big goal into... |