By Brad Parks A few years back, while driving to my favorite daily writing haunt, the local radio station spit out one…
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Education A Thriller Author Talks about How to Sell Science
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Public Science Communication Want to Write a Popular Science Book? Here’s What You Need to Know.
Whether you’re a scientist who wants to communicate their findings to a broader audience or a science enthusiast who is eager…
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Public Science Communication Yes, I’m A Scientist on Twitter. Stop Judging Me.
By Bill Sullivan Scientists have been surprisingly slow to embrace Twitter and other forms of social media. Even today, a certain…
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Mentorship Predatory Publishers Want to Write Your Autobiography!
Yes, you read that title correctly. Oasis Publishing Group Ltd. recently sent me an email that offered to write my autobiography. The…
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Mentorship Is It Time for Pre-Publication Peer Review to Die?
Pre-publication peer review seems to be as old as science communication itself. The idea is simple: qualified experts will examine your…
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Collaboration between scientists How To Get The Most Out Of A Scientific Conference
On July 21, 2018, Joshua Hall (@jdhallphd), Director of @UNCPREP @UNC School of Medicine and creator and host of the @hellophd…
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Mentorship If the Script for “Avengers: Infinity War” Was Peer-Reviewed
Warning: this article contains spoilers for the movie. What if movie scripts were subjected to the same peer-review process as…
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Mentorship If the Script for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Was Peer-Reviewed
In celebration of the home release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, I thought it would be interesting to portray how…
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Public Science Communication Barking Up The Right Tree: Scientist and Author Daniel Chamovitz Talks To PLOS About Science Communication
Daniel Chamovitz is Dean of The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University, Director of the Manna Center for…
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Public Science Communication Science Writers Talk to PLOS SciComm: Our 2017 Interviews
I had the privilege of interviewing several science and medical writers over the course of 2017. I want to thank these…
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Public Science Communication Blogs, Videos, Newspapers, Books: PLOS SciComm Talks To Aaron Carroll About Health Communication
Dr. Aaron Carroll is a Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine…
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Mentorship To Catch A Predatory Publisher
I often wonder if other scientists wake up every morning to delete a deluge of spam messages from no-name journals and…