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Notes From an Experienced Reviewer: Pay Attention to Study Design
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. – Lord Ernest Rutherford A Peer Reviewer’s Conundrum: Sample size of 1 In the journal Neuroimage, in 2009, a group of investigators reported an MRI study of one salmon which was 18 inches long. The fish, which was dead, was shown photographs […]
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Sep 19, 2026
Ask the Editor: Developing a PhD Mindset
“I don’t use my PhD anymore.” I’ve heard this statement countless times from former researchers who have transitioned into consulting, science communication, policy, publishing, startups, industry, and even entrepreneurship. As someone who completed a Ph.D. in translational neuroscience, mentored graduate students and later transitioned into scholarly publishing, I can understand this feeling. I often wonder […]
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Jul 17, 2026
