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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">Dear All, </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">I would like to share with the community the mentor-mentee platform called Figbox: https://figbox.co/ </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"><b>Who is behind figbox? </b></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">The platform was developed by two postdocs at Yale and Harvard to help Early Career Researchers and PhD students in various fields of research. Currently there are over 20k mentors
and mentees on figbox. </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"><b>What does it do?</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">Figbox allows junior scholars to find mentors willing to provide general advice on the following: thesis topics, experimental designs, publication, and more. It also allows junior
scholars the ability to receive double-blind reviews of their working papers, sections of their thesis and grants before they officially submit.<span style="margin:0px"> <span style="margin:0px"> </span></span> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"><b>What do you gain as a mentor? </b></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">For those who are curious about the benefits of mentoring junior scholars, see: https://figbox.co/benefit/ <https://figbox.co/benefit/> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"><b>is it free? </b></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">yes, it's open source. mentors and mentee can sign up safely and securely using their ORCID account </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">With best regards, </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Times;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">Emmanuel </span></p>
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