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Descriptive Science
Yesterday I cleaned my office. I’m now totally organized (insert *big* laugh here), and bare desktop is actually visible. Today, I tackled my mailbox. I’m following the rule that I don’t clean my...
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Unsolicited Advice: Writing, Part 2: Sentence Faux Pas (UPDATED*)
Comrade Physioprof started to cover writing with the simple sentence, but I’m going to take this one and run with it. The sentence is the ‘grammatical unit of language’, and as C. Physioprof has...
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Unsolicited Advice: Writing, part III – Passive vs. Active
I’ve been wanting to write a post about use of the passive voice in scientific paper writing. I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit in between learning to navigate facebook, welcoming my...
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Who should be an author?
Sometimes I like to write about history- i.e. things I’ve learned that you might be able to benefit from. Other times, I like to gather your collective opinions about one topic or another because it...
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Article Level Metrics Debut at PLOS
I am SO into this, did anyone else notice it?? I just discovered a couple of days ago that PLOS now has metrics on all of its articles in all of its journals. When you pull up a given article there are...
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Cranky Reviewers
It is always that third reviewer (well, actually in my case it was the second reviewer). That one that can just kill ya. You know the one I mean. The one that said that you did the assay ALL wrong, the...
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I fell off my horse…say what?? “Nature One”??
Via Martin Fenner and Bjorn Brembs this news… a press release from Nature Publishing Group announcing “Scientific Reports” : An online, open access, peer-reviewed publication, Scientific Reports will...
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Did your student write the paper, or did you?
Hmmm. Not sure I’m happy with that title, my students probably could have done better. I was talking with a colleague about paper writing the other day. In comparing mental notes, we had completely...
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#Reviewdouchery
What is #reviewdouchery? The short answer is that reviewdouchery are the comments and habits of reviewers that we love to hate. A few random examples (not in order of douchiness): 1. “It would be...
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Cell, Science, Nature…. and… eLife?
My better half returned from his travels yesterday with some interesting nuggets of information he learned on his trip. Among those was this: eLife Wow. Consider me informed. As the new guy in the OA...
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