To collaborate or not to collaborate?
October 29, 2013 Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing
You hear about these stories about how ideas from young scientists are stolen by more senior scientists. (The case of Rosalind Franklin’s discovery of the X-ray crystallographic photographs of DNA being a prime one.) Yet, it is always disconcerting to read more and more stories about how people with good scientific ideas are taken advantage […]
10 grammar rules you can forget: how to stop worrying and write proper
Jim Steenburgh sent me this article from The Guardian about “what pop music can teach you about building sentences.”
Fictitious paper published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
September 26, 2013 Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing
Jon Zeitler forwarded me this story about a published article that was withdrawn from publication in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications when it was discovered that the authors were fictitious. The work was apparently submitted to discredit another scientist’s work.
Can (and should) scientists become great presenters?
September 11, 2013 Filed under Blog, Featured, Presentations
“When people like you [scientists & PhD students] talk about their research, half of the time even your peers don’t understand what the hell you are talking about, and when they do understand they find it boring. That’s the sad truth.” – Dr. Jean-luc Doumont From Presentation Zen blog by Garr Reynolds, forwarded to me […]
How to read and understand a scientific paper
Brian Curran sends along this great blog post about how to read and understand a scientific paper. The subtitle is a guide for nonscientists, but Brian points out that even scientists could benefit from this information. In fact, I would say that many of the questions asked by the author are valuable in constructing a […]
