Happy Father’s Day
We celebrated Father’s Day yesterday, so it felt appropriate to share an article written several years ago for this blog about the “father of […]
Shining the Light on Peer Review
Peer review is a vital step in scientific publishing. Unfortunately it is often not formally taught. This interesting news came to us from EurekAlert! in […]
STEM and Women
Inspiring women are all around us. It doesn’t have to be the latest astronaut or poet laureate that graces all the headlines to inspire […]
Science Journal Increases Access
A new authoritative journal has joined the family of open access titles. Launched in 1884 and 1912, respectively, University of Hamburg’s journal Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen […]
Collaboration Seeks to Improve Research
A group of not-for-profit scientific membership societies have announced the launch of the Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA). This is an initiative focused on […]
Webinar Addresses the Current Media Landscape
It is back to school season and that applies to professionals as well. The Society for Scholarly Publishing is offering a webinar on November […]
Gender Bias in Scientific Publishing
Scientists strive to be objective in their peer review of grant applications and manuscript submissions. However, the threat to objectivity comes from all humans […]
Naming Conventions
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics, and the practice and science of classification […]
April: America’s Newest Sweetheart
Who is April?
I heard that at a least a dozen times last month from friends and colleagues. With more than 1.2 million people logging […]
No Taxation Without Taxonomy
It isn’t every day that the word “taxonomy” is used in a protest. However, thousands of scientists worldwide took to the streets to rail against […]