In an analysis for The Washington Post  (1/16), Arizona State University’s Lesley Michalegko, Eric Welch, Mary K. Feeney and University of Illinois at Chicago’s Timothy P. Johnson wrote, “We are a team of researchers who study the role of science and technology in society. We are also part of a collaborative, multi-university project, called SciOPS, that seeks to improve how scientists communicate with the public. As the pandemic wore on, researchers began telling us about the work stoppages, data losses and other hardships they were experiencing. We felt this was important information, so we conducted two surveys to understand how the pandemic was affecting researchers.” They added, “The pandemic’s hardships in academia have been widespread and lasting, but our analyses revealed that female and early career scientists faced more negative effects than other groups. These differences are possibly aggravating already existing disparities and potentially altering career trajectories. The negative outcomes may last well beyond the end of the pandemic.”