Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration (February 11 – 16, 2018): Licia Selleri & Ophir Klein

  Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration (February 11 – 16, 2018): Licia Selleri & Ophir Klein   Posted August 22, 2018 by post-info As part of its mission to encourage engagement

Building a Great Scientific Abstract: A Quick Checklist

      It should never be a rushed afterthought. An awful lot is riding on the quality of scientific abstracts. Most readers will rely on that summary, delving in no further. And a conference

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize

  Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize   post-info It’s time to celebrate the best of PLOS Computational Biology!  In 2017 PLOS Computational Biology launched the “PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize” program

Signing Critical Peer Reviews & the Fear of Retaliation: What Should We Do?

0000-0002-8715-2896   There’s a sort of Godwin’s Law for discussions on open peer review. Sooner or later, someone’s going to say, “We can’t expect early career researchers to sign peer reviews, because of fear of retaliation”. And

Announcing the PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize 2018 – Nominate your favorite articles by April 13

0000-0002-8715-2896 Announcing the PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize 2018 – Nominate your favorite articles by April 13   post-info We’re pleased to announce that nominations are now open for this year’s PLOS Computational Biology Research

Principles, Open Access, & Everyday Choices

0000-0002-8715-2896   It’s not enough to mean well, is it? Principles matter, but so do the effects of acting on our strongly held beliefs. We need to keep re-visiting our values in considering the impact

CRISPR, Priority, and Credit: Do We Need to Edit Science’s DNA?

Jennifer-Doudna-2016-02-13-300x251  “She’s like the poster child for collaboration”. Jon Miller was talking last weekend at the AAAS session about scientists’ virtues. The “she” was Jennifer Doudna, who had given a talk the evening before. a Doudna speaking at AAAS 2016 She’s

9 PubMed Ninja Skills

PubMed-Ninja-1024x747A few million people use PubMed every day – many pretty much every day. And everyone’s got their own habits,  shortcuts, and functions they rely on. Before I get to my personal top 9, though, a

Science and the Rise of the Co-Authors

Ensemble-930x1024  Leonhart Fuchs credited his illustrator collaborators in De Historia Stirpium, 1542 Physicists set a new record this year for number of co-authors: a 9-page report needed an extra 24 pages to list its 5,154 authors.

Why Aren’t We All Machine-Friendly Researchers?

  I blame the writing and research impact advice we get. At least in part. It doesn’t prepare us as well for our relationship with machines as it could. When we’re told to think of “the

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