I started listening to podcasts sometime in 2009. But I practically became addicted some time during 2010 when I was in graduate…
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Citizen Science The Lab Bench in Stereo: Science and Science Podcasts
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Collaboration Collaboration and Undergraduate Research Highlight Brazilian Ichthyological Research
Science transcends borders, breaks down barriers, and provides new understanding regardless of language. This, anyway, is the ideal. In reality however, it’s…
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Citizen Science The Importance of Storytelling in Science
“We owe it to each other to tell stories.” – Neil Gaiman Scientific writing is often belied as dry, stale; a…
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Biodiversity Wild Thoughts on the Wild
A guest post from Dr. Anita George, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane Australia People love learning about…
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Collaboration Publish-or-Perish in Context: New research in publication rates says publish more, but is that the best answer for science?
If you’ve worked around academics you are surely familiar with the phrase publish-or-perish, the idea that publication rate, above all else, is…
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Citizen Science Science Communication, Simple Words, and Story Telling at ESA 2016
A guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Caitlin McDonough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft…
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Biodiversity Enhancing communication and collaboration among ecologists at #ESA2016
Once again PLOS will be present at one of our favorite disciplinary conferences, the Ecological Society of America 2016 Annual Meeting, happening this…
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Early Career Only 24 hours in the day PART TWO: Breakdown by type of institution
The above image is of the Anthropology Museum at Beloit College (creative commons license). Last week we covered some general results…
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Early Career Only 24 hours in the day: academic trade-offs in teaching and research
The above image is of Firestone Library at Princeton University (creative commons license). How do you spend the majority of your…
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Early Career Stadium speakers and psychologists: a survey for scientists in tenured and tenure-track positions
The image above is taken of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin (creative commons license). In today’s academic job market, it is essential…