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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Mentorship Is It Time for Pre-Publication Peer Review to Die?
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Community Engagement The Nexus of Data and Community: How Partnership Can Close Achievement Gaps
States across the U.S. (like our home state of Indiana) are making strides to better understand and close the racial achievement gaps…
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Community Engagement How to communicate basic research in schools – a case study using Drosophila
The Manchester Fly Facility maintains an objective-driven, long-term science communication initiative which started in 2011 and promotes the importance of fundamental biomedical…
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Community Engagement Power to the Patients: Co-design of Community-based Research
According to a 2015 statistic, the leading causes of death among adolescents in the US are unintentional accidents, suicide, and homicide. However…
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Community Engagement Finding Lost Emotions after Brain Injury
This week, a study published by scientists at the University of Rochester indicates that a new blood test may make it easier to more…
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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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Collaboration between scientists Running Laboratory Meetings
When I started my research group, I realized that I had to have lab meetings and that there were many approaches…
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Public Science Communication CBD is Certainly a Big Deal!
At at time when over 60% of Americans favor legalizing marijuana, this has been an interesting few weeks for marijuana policy wonks. Several…
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Public Science Communication The Foot Bone’s Connected to the Leg Bone
How well do you know your body, inside and out? Appendix to adrenal glands, brain to biceps, cornea to cruciate ligaments–these are…
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Community Engagement Top 10 Reasons to Engage In Science Twitter
More and more scientists are finally using Twitter. For many people, Twitter has become the primary place to catch breaking news, follow…
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Public Science Communication Science and art find common ground: the importance of storytelling
Readers of PLOS SciComm undoubtedly know that we are strong advocates of communicating science through storytelling. Over the last several months we…
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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…