Category Archives: science publishing

Where credit is due

Posted on 27 February, 2019 by Laetitia Wilkins

I am trying to keep this short. You might remember my recent blog post on data sharing. I basically wanted to point out that data acquisition can be an art on its own. It can take months of planning, applying … Continue reading →

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Towards unrestricted use of public genomic data

Posted on 3 February, 2019 by Laetitia Wilkins

Last week, a friend sent me this policy forum article published in Science. Fifty co-authors, mostly tenured and from prestigious universities, some of them among my dearest idols, have written this piece to call for publicly available genome data. What … Continue reading →

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Survey results: Journal solicitations from preprint servers

Posted on 25 January, 2019 by Jeremy Yoder

Last December, we posed the question Should journals solicit submissions from preprint archives? and solicited feedback from the community on whether this was a promising path forward for the field. First off, thank you to the 145 people who responded … Continue reading →

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Should journals solicit submissions from preprint archives?

Posted on 10 December, 2018 by Jeremy Yoder

The use of preprints has increased drastically in the life sciences over the past few years. Preprints are manuscripts submitted to open access servers prior to, or in some cases instead of, formal publication. One popular preprint server is bioRxiv (although there … Continue reading →

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To present data is human, to communicate data is divine

Posted on 4 September, 2018 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Finding new and engaging ways to communicate science is of paramount importance. But, how many opportunities are there to practice the art of communication? That’s how I began the lead-in piece for a series of student posts over a year … Continue reading →

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Of Of Mice and Men: High school English class lives on in scientific paper titles

Posted on 11 September, 2017 by Jeremy Yoder

Writing titles for scientific papers is hard. The title is the one element of the paper everyone reads if they so much as skim a journal’s table of contents e-mail. These days, you also want something that’ll fit in a … Continue reading →

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I think we’re NOT alone now

Posted on 7 March, 2017 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Finding new and engaging ways to communicate science is of paramount importance. But, how many opportunities are there to practice the art of communication? When can we try out different methods of distilling science? It seems that these chances are … Continue reading →

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An Update on the Great BAMM Controversy

Posted on 1 March, 2017 by Ethan Linck

Update, 01 August 2016, 2:50PM. This post has been updated to include information contained in the supplemental material of Rabosky et al. 2017, and clarify the difference between branch-specific and tree-wide rate variation. Back in August, I summarized the main … Continue reading →

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The Fourth Reviewer: Pre-print reviews, parental monikers, and points for student participation

Posted on 14 June, 2016 by Jeremy Yoder

Tim Vines is an evolutionary ecologist who found his calling in the process of peer review. He was Managing Editor of Molecular Ecology from 2008 to 2015, launched The Molecular Ecologist in 2010, and he’s now the founder and Managing Editor of Axios Review. Here, Tim … Continue reading →

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The Fourth Reviewer: What problem is open peer review trying to solve?

Posted on 16 May, 2016 by Jeremy Yoder

Tim Vines is an evolutionary ecologist who found his calling in the process of peer review. He was Managing Editor of Molecular Ecology from 2008 to 2015, launched The Molecular Ecologist in 2010, and is the founder and Managing Editor of Axios Review. Here, Tim is … Continue reading →

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