I recently read a blog post about a female entrepreneur who also happened to be a stay-at-home-mom. She put a great deal of energy into her business and wound up with physical representations of stress Read More
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Case: An author decided to run her paper through a plagiarism check before submitting it to a journal. Although she had written the paper herself and there was ideally no need for a plagiarism check, Read More
US President Donald Trump announced his budget proposal for the fiscal year 2020 demanding major cuts in the spending of several government science agencies, for the third time in a row. The budget for the fiscal Read More
Predatory and pseudo-scientific publishing is a lucrative sector and thrives on a business model that favors profit over scientific rigor. Predatory publishers and pseudo-scientific journals evolve (in most cases) in open access academic publishing where Read More
This week was the deadline of my first ever real grant application. It’s been pretty hard work, but in a strange way I’ve kind of enjoyed it – I love writing, so being able Read More
A brief history of big data I found myself caught in the era of big data in genetics research while I was doing my Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Adelaide. It was Read More
There’s one thing that has been ingrained in my mind since the first day of my research journey―being a scientist or researcher is no easy task. You’ve got to be tough. You’Read More
Springer Nature, one of the largest publishers of scientific journals, and ResearchGate, a social networking platform for researchers, have announced an article-sharing pilot project that will enable ResearchGate users easy access to select articles published Read More
Irrespective of tenure, researchers worldwide work in highly competitive environments and are under immense pressure to publish articles in high-impact journals. Recently, Editage released a Global Author Survey Report based on the perspectives of almost 7000 Read More
eLife, an online scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences, has created its first “computationally reproducible” article that will allow readers to play with the original underlying code to validate the work. The figures Read More
