Academia's culture of overwork almost broke me, so I'm working to undo it

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Natalia Ingebretsen Kucirkova is a professor of child development at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and at the Open University, UK.
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I left Slovakia to study in the United Kingdom at the age of 18, with a small suitcase and big hopes. I wanted to take advantage of opportunities that my parents had only been able to dream of growing up under a communist regime. But never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become a professor before the age of 35.

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Nature 614, 9 (2023)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00241-8
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