TY - JOUR
T1 - From a crisis to an opportunity
T2 - Eight insights for doing science in the COVID-19 era and beyond
AU - Chacón-Labella, Julia
AU - Boakye, Mickey
AU - Enquist, Brian J.
AU - Farfan-Rios, William
AU - Gya, Ragnhild
AU - Halbritter, Aud H.
AU - Middleton, Sara L.
AU - von Oppen, Jonathan
AU - Pastor-Ploskonka, Samuel
AU - Strydom, Tanya
AU - Vandvik, Vigdis
AU - Geange, Sonya R.
N1 - Funding Information: We would like to thank our fellow Plant Functional Traits Course 2020 participants for being great colleagues who pulled together during a challenging time and still created a fun field course experience. We would also like to thank Tasha‐Leigh J. Gauthier, Laura H. Jessup, Jocelyn Navarro, Maria Elisa Pierfederici, and Eugenia Sánchez for valuable discussions as we developed the initial draft of the manuscript. We are grateful for the financial support provided by the Norwegian Research Council to develop the Plant Functional Trait Courses (project 274831 RECITE and 287784 EXPERTS under the INTPART program), and also support from the National Science Foundation (awards ABI‐1565118 and HDR‐1934790). SLM would also like to thank the Natural Environment Research Council Award NE/L002612/1 for supporting attendance of the 2020 Plant Functional Trait Course. JvO was supported by the Independent Research Fund of Denmark, project 7027‐00133B. JCL is supported by the project 287784 EXPERTS of the Norwegian Research Council. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - The COVID-19 crisis has forced researchers in Ecology to change the way we work almost overnight. Nonetheless, the pandemic has provided us with several novel components for a new way of conducting science. In this perspective piece, we summarize eight central insights that are helping us, as early career researchers, navigate the uncertainties, fears, and challenges of advancing science during the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight how innovative, collaborative, and often Open Science-driven developments that have arisen from this crisis can form a blueprint for a community reinvention in academia. Our insights include personal approaches to managing our new reality, maintaining capacity to focus and resilience in our projects, and a variety of tools that facilitate remote collaboration. We also highlight how, at a community level, we can take advantage of online communication platforms for gaining accessibility to conferences and meetings, and for maintaining research networks and community engagement while promoting a more diverse and inclusive community. Overall, we are confident that these practices can support a more inclusive and kinder scientific culture for the longer term.
AB - The COVID-19 crisis has forced researchers in Ecology to change the way we work almost overnight. Nonetheless, the pandemic has provided us with several novel components for a new way of conducting science. In this perspective piece, we summarize eight central insights that are helping us, as early career researchers, navigate the uncertainties, fears, and challenges of advancing science during the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight how innovative, collaborative, and often Open Science-driven developments that have arisen from this crisis can form a blueprint for a community reinvention in academia. Our insights include personal approaches to managing our new reality, maintaining capacity to focus and resilience in our projects, and a variety of tools that facilitate remote collaboration. We also highlight how, at a community level, we can take advantage of online communication platforms for gaining accessibility to conferences and meetings, and for maintaining research networks and community engagement while promoting a more diverse and inclusive community. Overall, we are confident that these practices can support a more inclusive and kinder scientific culture for the longer term.
KW - data sharing
KW - early career
KW - inclusivity
KW - networking
KW - online collaboration
KW - skill development
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U2 - 10.1002/ece3.7026
DO - 10.1002/ece3.7026
M3 - Article
SN - 2045-7758
VL - 11
SP - 3588
EP - 3596
JO - Ecology and Evolution
JF - Ecology and Evolution
IS - 8
ER -