Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.
Elife. 2024 Mar 19;13:e96381. doi: 10.7554/eLife.96381.
Many successful researchers in the biomedical sciences have benefitted from mentors and networks earlier in their career. However, early-career researchers from minoritized and underrepresented groups do not have the same access to potential mentors and networks as many of their peers. In this article we describe how 'cold emails' and social media platforms - notably Twitter/X and LinkedIn - can be used to build virtual networks, and stress the need to invest in maintaining networks once they have been established.
许多生物医学科学领域的成功研究人员都曾受益于职业生涯早期的导师和人际网络。然而，少数族裔和代表性不足的群体的早期职业研究人员与许多同行相比，没有同样的机会接触潜在的导师和人际网络。在本文中，我们描述了如何使用“冷邮件”和社交媒体平台（特别是 Twitter/X 和 LinkedIn）来建立虚拟网络，并强调了一旦建立了网络，就需要投资来维护网络。
