Do you want to see more photos and stories of amazing women and other under-represented scientists? Sure you do! And you can…
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Black History Month How-To Guide: Help Find Missing Scientists’ FacesRead more
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Black History Month Black History Month: The Complicated Power of More Women Scientists’ FacesRead more
The photos are gorgeous. They’re uplifting. The images bring women we have not heard of before to life, shifting our own…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2016: A Year of Price Bargaining, Preprints, and a PirateRead more
A few years ago, I wrote that open access (OA) publications were gaining momentum. Based on a study of 2006 to 2010…
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History “The Same Folly, the Same Fury”: A.V. Hill in 1933Read more
Freedom itself is again at stake… It is difficult to believe in progress, at least in decency and commonsense, when this can…
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Health Down and Almost Out in Scotland: George Orwell, 1948, and Nineteen Eighty-FourRead more
A tweet jolted me today. Doublespeak hit the news a few days ago, sending George Orwell’s final masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, back into a…
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Evidence When Science Polarizes: A Personal Activist Story with EvidenceRead more
There was another one of those “we’re living in echo chambers” papers recently. It’s from the same data on science and conspiracy theory social…
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Science Communication Silence: Everyday Betrayals of Research ParticipantsRead more
Many of them were watching the evening TV news on the BBC, with no idea of the blow that was…
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Reproducibility Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research ReliabilityRead more
It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the…
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Listicles Post-Truth Antidote: Our Roles in Virtuous Spirals of Trust in ScienceRead more
It’s a classic vicious cycle. Post-internet, misinformation and ideas previously doomed to be only fringe-worthy spread far and fast. The faster misinformation…
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Evidence Fertility Hedge Fund? Pros and Cons of Egg BankingRead more
Freezing and storing your own eggs when you are not trying to get pregnant used to be rare. It was something…
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Listicles Between Science’s Secretive, Elitist Past and Open, Accessible FutureRead more
Editor’s note: Read Hilda’s October 26, 2016 @redditscience conversation on Open Access in Action here plos.io/OAweek16AMA An old tradition and a new technology…
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History What Lies Beneath a Scientist’s Life: A Father and Son StoryRead more
It was one of those lovely, comfortable conversations between people who have known each other a long time. I took this selfie…