{"id":2891,"date":"2020-12-17T17:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:59:54","slug":"2020-the-year-of-hard-won-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/2020-the-year-of-hard-won-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"2020: the year of hard-won lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"author-affiliation-news-0-head\"><a href=\";\">Virginia Gewin<\/a>, December 15, 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Researchers reflect on a challenging pandemic year and on how lockdowns changed their approach to work and their perceptions of the scientific enterprise.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the best of times, science is a complex juggling act of research, teaching, mentoring, grant writing and publishing. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought nationwide lockdowns, rising racial tensions and virtual scientific life. For many, 2020 has been a year in which doing well has meant simply muddling through. The darkest moments, however, can often help to reveal a clear purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Female researchers are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-020-0921-y\">disproportionately affected by the pandemic<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0spoke to seven about what they have taken away from this year of upheaval, and how, despite challenges, they forged new career directions and launched new initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-03521-9?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20201217&amp;utm_source=nature_etoc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20201217&amp;sap-outbound-id=F089C1F52DDCB8A8EE405B263EBB4D9D92D6EC6A\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Gewin, December 15, 2020 Researchers reflect on a challenging pandemic year and on how lockdowns &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}