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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Collaboration Collaboration and Undergraduate Research Highlight Brazilian Ichthyological ResearchRead more
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Citizen Science The Importance of Storytelling in ScienceRead more
“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 WildRead more
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?Read more
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 2016Read more
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 #ESA2016Read more
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 institutionRead more
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 researchRead more
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 positionsRead more
The image above is taken of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin (creative commons license). In today’s academic job market, it is essential…