How to be a brilliant ally to your neurodivergent lab mate

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Mentoring a lab colleague? Share your ‘CV of failures’ with them

Melanie Stefan leads a computational neurobiology lab at MSB Medical School Berlin. But as a postdoc 16 years ago, a failed fellowship application prompted her to write an article in Nature. In it, she called for researchers to keep a ‘CV of failures.’Stefan says: “The idea would ...  Show more

Why failure is a taboo topic in science

Experiments fail and careers plans can go awry, forcing us to pivot in a different direction. Organizations also make mistakes. But failure, at both an individual and institutional level, can be a useful teacher. In the first episode of a six-part podcast series about failure in ...  Show more

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