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Read through our top picks for this month and fill your appetite for interesting news and goings-on in the scholarly publishing world. Happy reading!
Dr Helen Buckley Woods, Research Fellow at Research on Research Institute, shares her findings and thoughts on new developments in peer review and how different schools…
This article explains what is survival analysis, its uses, how to conduct a survival analyses, and some best practices.
As a young boy growing up in the Eastern Cape, pursuing a Master’s degree was never in any of my dreams. Actually, I was not even aware of anything related to a post…
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  • May 27, 2019
The process of generating a research problem statement begins with asking the right question. But how can we formulate this question? As a passionate robotics researcher…
On December 5, a group of 17 University of California (UC) academic workers held a sit-in at the UC president’s office in Sacramento. After a few hours, they were…
If I were to use a metaphor in which I'm a fish, and the labs that I've worked at are water bodies, then I'd have to say that I've been a variably sized fish in various…
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  • May 8, 2019
Being at the final stages of a PhD means that either you are about to go into the deep end or about to climb another hill. It is an uncharted territory because, after…
This is a list of 11 reading resources that will will help you express your research confidently in English through simple, practical tips on how to avoid common…
One very important aspect of my job is my roughly bi-weekly lab meetings. And after years of these meetings, I noticed last summer that they were becoming a bit stale…