"Fostering Well-being: Strategies for a Mental Health-Friendly Workplace”
1. Daily half hour meetigs with the coworkers commenting cases and work situations
2. having a good payment
3. The person who is in charge of the Dept. is not authoritarian and a qualified professional
I believe that the most basic human need is a sense of a safe place. My method, Emotional Training, is a practical guide to emotional management.
How to bring health and happiness to your lab
Can mindfulness, meditation and other tools designed to boost well-being make a difference? Adam Levy investigates...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00538-w
Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing
"Recently, I was having lunch with a researcher friend and we were lamenting the new type of mental load that comes from oscillating between everyday considerations (things like watering the plants), the workday aspects of our lives (going to that meeting, writing that blog), and large-scale crises like the dissolution of funding for the underpinnings of our industry. She termed the dizzying pivots “horizon-shifting.”
The constant mental switching between these realms brings with it a new kind of exhaustion. On one hand, our worlds don’t exist outside of any of these vantages. The minutiae of our daily lives both ground us and also keep the wheels turning in those seemingly small moments that end up comprising much of our actual lives...
These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hourly and daily basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another, leaning into the strange wisdom that the pandemic imparted, which is the ability to see each other as full humans, ones who are navigating constantly changing circumstances.
It’s a flawed and impossible task, but we’re not the first to live through such tumultuous times. There can be solace and inspiration and grounding in revisiting the very research we support. There’s comfort and solidarity in small day-to-day connections with our communities.
After all, it’s a tough time to be a human. It’s a tough time to care about research. It’s a tough time to try and write articles without completely falling apart in parentheses. But there’s always hope on the horizon..."
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/16/guest-post-horizon-shifting-or-how-to-be-a-human-in-modern-day-scholarly-publishing/?informz=1&nbd=&nbd_source=informz
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