Conversation

There's a mental health crisis in science.

Studies that collectively surveyed tens of thousands of researchers worldwide suggest that scientists’ mental-health struggles are a direct result of a toxic research culture.

41% of respondents reported moderate to severe anxiety and 39% had moderate to severe depression.

Those levels are six times greater than in the general population.

As always, it's exacerbated for members of under-represented groups which when it comes to science is pretty much everyone who's not a white man from a high-income country: women, non-binary individuals, people of colour, those from sexual and gender minorities (LGBTQ+) and students on low incomes...also senior researchers and scientists in different countries.

h/t @DrWendyRocks

Read more:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01708-4?mibextid=Zxz2cZ