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“Mental health concerns among early-career researchers (ECRs), including predoctoral (PhD students) and early postdoctoral researchers, have been gaining attention and point towards a potential mental health crisis in academia1–7.”
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“Some questions that arise may need small-scale discovery studies that can be conducted in single laboratories, and others require large-scale team science studies that have the potential to detect the best levels of prediction at population level (Rahal et al., 2023).”
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- Rahal, R.-M., Fiedler, S., Adetula, A., Berntsson, R. P.-A., Dirnagl, U., Feld, G. B., Fiebach, C. J., Himi, S. A., Horner, A. J., Lonsdorf, T. B., Schönbrodt, F., Silan, M. A. A., Wenzler, M., & Azevedo, F.
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- Nature Human Behaviour
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- 2023-02-08
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- 7
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- 2
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- 164-167
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- 2397-3374
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- en
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