I recently became a father to a beautiful little girl. As an ECR and first time parent living in Sweden, this means…
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Early Career Research Community The benefit of being a parent: why parental leave is more than a perk. It’s a necessity
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Early Career Research Community The Definitions They Are a-Changin’: Lamarck, Inheritance, and Genomes
A snappy t-shirt can say a lot about a person, such as your sense of humour or style (or lack thereof). It…
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Early Career Research Community “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”: Soda tax, public health and the prevention of diabetes
For those of you who missed it, the Speaking of Medicine ran in July a four week special in relation to the…
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Early Career Research Community The not-so-innocent LEGO brick
When I think of the Danish company LEGO, the first image that comes to mind is their classical LEGO brick, and I…
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Brain Why do children believe in Santa? PLOS ONE studies examine how children conceive truth
How old were you when you stopped believing in Santa Claus? Evidence shows you were probably about five years old. But why…
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PLoS Pathogens and Defense: Speakers recap from the 6th EMBO Meeting
By Meredith Wright From September 5-8, scientists converged on Birmingham, UK for the 6th European Molecular Biology Organization Meeting. EMBO is an…
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Global Health 9-2-15 PLOS Science Wednesday AMA Preview: River blindness programs improve health outcomes: Evidence for increased prioritization of NTDs in post-2015 global health agenda
River blindness (onchocerciasis) is an onerous neglected tropical disease (NTD) and the second-leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Onchocerciasis is transmitted by…
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Gaming Knowledge is where you find it: Leveraging the Internet’s unique data repositories
By Chris Givens Sometimes, data doesn’t look like data. But when circumstances conspire and the right researchers come along, interesting facets of…
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Academia Celebrating 10 years of Athena SWAN Charter advancing women in science
By Sara Carvalhal Gender inequality in science has been in the news lately, particularly around the fall-out of Sir Tim Hunt’s biased…
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Biology Just Skin Deep — Your Immune System at the Surface
The skin is the human body’s largest organ. At 1.8 square meters for the average adult, skin covers about as much area…
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Academia Scientists Behaving Badly (On Social Media)
By Brett Buttliere It is generally undisputed that Twitter and other social information exchange websites are changing the landscape of science and…
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Academia It’s time for universities to rethink what counts as field school
By Liam Zachary Field school season is approaching for anthropology and earth science undergraduate students, and while some students have already enrolled…