By Eric J. Perkins
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This post was contributed by guest blogger Chinmaya Sadangi, a postdoc at the University of Toronto. The Addictive Brain was founded in early 2018 with the goal of communicating science to non-scientists. Chinmaya Sadangi, a postdoc at the University of Toronto, created The ...
In 2017, Lenny Teytelman, CEO of protocols.io, organized a panel to discuss reproducibility issues in research. But he realized that it wasn’t enough to discuss the age-old problem of irreproducibility in science or even to discuss potential solutions. Despite all the talk, not ...
When Jessica Sacher, a microbiologist from the University of Alberta, saw that scientists were using Twitter to find phages to treat an antibiotic resistant bacterial infection, she shared that tweet with Jan Zheng, a UX designer that she knew. “We had actually met at a lindy ...
Have you ever found yourself frustrated reading through a paper to find that there is insufficient information about which reagents were used? Unambiguous identification of a reagent is crucial for reproducibility because mistakes in this can lead to wasted time or retractions. ...
This guest post was contributed by Johnny Kung, Director of New Initiatives for the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd). Advances in genetic technologies and other biomedical innovations promise an improved understanding of how our bodies work, new treatments for ...
This guest post was contributed by Nathan Sanders of ComSciCon, the Communicating Science Conference series for graduate students. I believe that communication is the single most important skill that scientists need to succeed in their work. While it's not always recognized and ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Tea Pavlek, Product Marketing Manager at sciNote. Today, every lab has its own habits and approaches to record keeping. Top priorities in most cases include IP protection, publications and funding. If any of these three pillars ...
