📢 Thrilled to share that we were interviewed by @nature.com about our preprint on supervisor behavior & early-career researcher mental health!
Surveying 2600 early-career researchers globally, empathy emerged as the core pattern shaping positive mentorship.
Most early-career researchers enter academia because of passion for science. Many leave because of supervision. Our study (2,604 responses, 65 countries) suggests that supervisory practices strongly shape mental health and retention in academia.
Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I am at #Monogram2026 today presenting my poster on pearl millet-rice intergrafts! 🌾 My research focuses on their physiological performance under extreme drought stress, specifically looking at how we can improve water-use efficiency and drought tolerance💧 #PlantScience
📢How do supervisory behaviours impact early-career researchers? Our preprint explores how scientific supervisors shape the wellbeing of ECRs. We analysed 2604 anonymous responses from ECRs across 65 countries🌍 to understand the impact of mentorship. This is what we found👇
New paper out! We compared wheat and spelt in the field under irrigated vs rainfed conditions and conventional vs organic farming. Spelt showed greater resilience to drought, while soil management strongly shaped microbial communities🌾
#PlantScience #CropResilience
With great power comes great responsibility: how scientific supervisors shape the wellbeing of early-career researchers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.722947v1