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‘I was told to toughen up’: is academia getting resilience all wrong?

Being repeatedly told to bounce back and develop a thicker skin can mask a toxic lab culture.
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  1. Gemma Conroy
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More than a decade ago, palaeoceanographer Summer Praetorius received some bad news: her mother had brain cancer. Praetorius was deep in her graduate studies at Oregon State University in Corvallis, but she somehow managed to juggle her mother’s care with her demanding workload. But in just a few short months, Praetorius’s mother died.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00383-x

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