Calling All Bloggers for ISMB/ECCB 2015 ISMB/ECCB 2015 in Dublin, Ireland, is fast approaching and we invite you to be involved in…
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The Student Blog PLOS Computational Biology Community Going All Out to Cover #ISMB15 with the ISCB Student CouncilRead more
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The Student Blog Walk the walk, talk the talk: Implications of dual-tasking on dementia researchRead more
By Ríona Mc Ardle You turn the street corner and bump into an old friend. After the initial greetings and exclamations of…
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The Student Blog Highlights from the 2015 Meeting of the Vision Sciences SocietyRead more
Going to conferences is one of my favorite aspects about being a scientist. As a PhD student, I spend a lot of…
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Neglected Diseases LAMP Diagnostics: The key to malaria elimination?Read more
By Patrick McCreesh Malaria elimination is possible within a generation. But controlling malaria and eliminating malaria are different, and each pose certain…
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The Student Blog Uncovering the biology of mental illnessRead more
By James Fink The human brain is capable of complex processes. The brain senses time and visualizes space. It allows us to…
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Academia Celebrating 10 years of Athena SWAN Charter advancing women in scienceRead more
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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The Student Blog Deepwater Horizon: Five years later, research continues but headlines fadeRead more
By Kristan Uhlenbrock June 8th marked another World Ocean’s Day that has come and gone with Presidential Proclamations and local advocacy events…
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The Student Blog Let’s talk cancer: New live imaging shows how cancer communicates with other cellsRead more
By Aditi Qamra The ability to track and observe live cells in the body has offered unprecedented opportunities to the scientific community…
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Biology Just Skin Deep — Your Immune System at the SurfaceRead more
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)Read more
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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The Student Blog The Journal: The Instrument that Shapes Science and AcademiaRead more
By Anna Gielas No matter whether you study medicine or biology, law or art, neuroscience or history — there is one instrument…
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Academia It’s time for universities to rethink what counts as field schoolRead more
By Liam Zachary Field school season is approaching for anthropology and earth science undergraduate students, and while some students have already enrolled…