Can we try to stop using the term "early-career researcher" in #academia? It's so vague that I've never found it useful. Do you mean postdocs? Postdocs who graduated less than N years ago? PhD students near graduation? Recently-appointed faculty? I've seen all of these definitions used in different contexts.
@warrickball I graduated 4 years ago and someone called me "very early-career" in a grant application. It keeps getting worse lmao.