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Choosing to pursue a PhD or postdoc requires you to make a huge investment. During your program, you invest your time, money, and dreams into doing something you love…
What next? Career navigation advice for PhDs and postdocs
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Authors are often disappointed when their manuscript is rejected after initial screening and are left wondering what was wrong with the paper and why it was not even…
The need to write an effective abstract: A case study
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With the evolving digital media landsape, scientific communication is changing to adapt to the needs of a new age audience. Graphical and video abstracts are fast…
Time and again, the media has been accused of distorting the image of science. But is bad journalism the only reason behind the mistrust in and misrepresentation of…
Who's responsible for misrepresenting science – media or journals?
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The graphical abstract is a relatively new concept. while it is fast gaining popularity with journals, authors are not yet very familiar with the idea. Inadequate…
Science has seldom been a topic of drawing room conversations. The general public tends to believe that science is a complex subject that is best left to its…
Let's talk science: Why researchers ought to reach out to the public
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Peer reviewing a scientific manuscript can be a difficult task for first time reviewers. This article lists the main responsibilities of a peer reviewer, explains how a…
Professor Linqi Zhang - Chair, Department of Basic Medical Sciences and Comprehensive Aids Research Center at Tsinghua University, China - is very passionate about HIV…
How logical thinking and single-minded focus to find solutions can help researchers be successful
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As researchers publish more papers, their credibility as authors builds up, and they start getting invitations from editors to review papers. However, authors receiving…
This case study taken from The Evolution of Impact Indicators: From bibliometrics to altmetrics, a free ebook co-produced by Scholastica and Altmetric, explains how a…