✒️Editor's Note: Today's guest post was written by Altynai Mambetova. Altynai holds a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of Manchester. Her background spans data

Disclaimer I will speak from my own experience and from what I know the most — the case of being a (European) cisgender woman in academia. I don’t claim to represent or fully

Open Science (OS) is a movement that aims to bring about a change to the academic publishing system. Yet, despite being around for over 30 years, it has had relatively limited success. Traditional

When I first started my PhD in France, I couldn’t help but address my PI with the formal “you” in french (“vous”), instead of the informal “you” (“tu”). She was very quick

We’ve all peeked at that “Received, Revised, Accepted” section of a paper and instantly regretted it. Those dates often read less like a timeline and more like an archaeological record. And that,