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In response to these, I would like to emphasize that I do not recognize the described situation as being faithful to the CTN reality.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that academic research is a highly competitive and demanding job. The declining funding essential for state-of-the-art research and retaining short-term academic positions creates an even more challenging situation for academic researchers. Unfortunately, success in research is predominantly measured by the number and impact of scientific publications. This \u2018publish or perish\u2019 culture is indeed an international problem.<\/p>\n<h3>Management has supported us<\/h3>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">OPINION ON THE UNIVERSITY POST<\/p>\n<p>This is a featured comment\/opinion piece. 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In response to these, I would like to emphasize that I do not recognize the described situation as being faithful to the CTN reality.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that academic research is a highly competitive and demanding job. The declining funding essential for state-of-the-art research and retaining short-term academic positions creates an even more challenging situation for academic researchers. Unfortunately, success in research is predominantly measured by the number and impact of scientific publications. This \u2018publish or perish\u2019 culture is indeed an international problem.<\/p>\n<h3>Management has supported us<\/h3>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">OPINION ON THE UNIVERSITY POST<\/p>\n<p>This is a featured comment\/opinion piece. It expresses the author\u2019s own opinion.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage everyone to read the whole piece before commenting on social media, so that we only get constructive contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Disagreement is good, but remember to uphold a civil and respectful tone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite this pressing situation, CTN and its leadership provide great resources, and support for us, early career researchers. In this environment we are allowed and encouraged to excel in our scientific pursuits while maintaining the work life balance that each of us chooses.<\/p>\n<p>This fact is highlighted by the high number of young CTN staff who have from one to several children, and consequently have been on parental leave \u2013 both men and women \u2013 or have been on sick leave and were supported throughout their time of absence by a strong team that stands together to ensure everyone\u2019s success. Furthermore, the majority of CTN staff works here on average 4 years before continuing their careers either in other world-leading research laboratories, as independent scientists, or transitioning to influential positions in industry.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of our next career step, all directions have the support of the leadership and benefit of the great network and connections that are formed by the excelled scientific work done at CTN.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get an email with our top stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":47,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":47,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":333,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Opinion","slug":"opinion","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":2040,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[{"term_id":5468,"name":"Optional","slug":"optional-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5468,"taxonomy":"translation_priority","description":"","parent":0,"count":672,"filter":"raw"}]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/virginiaplascaled-1280x766.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146995,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146679\/revisions\/146995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}