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Stirring the strategic direction of scuba diving marine Citizen Science: A su...
ABSTRACT Citizen Science (CS) strengthens the relationship between society and science through education and engagement, with win-win benefits. Marine Citizen Science (MCS) is... -
MooSciTIC: Training of trainers in West African research and higher education
The MooSciTIC project is a capacity-building initiative targeting West African research scientists and higher education teachers. The project aimed to improve the self-reliance... -
From systems to biology: A computational analysis of the research articles on...
: Systems biology is a discipline that studies biological systems from a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together biologists, mathematicians, computer... -
Scientific misconduct and accountability in teams
Increasing complexity and multidisciplinarity make collaboration essential for modern science. This, however, raises the question of how to assign accountability for scientific... -
Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communica...
Introduction Whereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific... -
Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding compet...
Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not... -
Fifteen years in, what next for PLOS Biology?
As we celebrate our anniversary, the PLOS Biology editors discuss recent initiatives taken by the journal (meta-research, complementary research policy, preprint posting, short... -
Climate science curricula in Canadian secondary schools focus on human warmin...
Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change poses severe risks to human and natural systems, many young Canadian adults do not view it as a major issue. We... -
Preprints: An underutilized mechanism to accelerate outbreak science.
Background In December 2019, a pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China and has rapidly spread around the world since then. Aim This study... -
Trade-offs in motivating volunteer effort: Experimental evidence on voluntary...
Author(s): Lyons, Elizabeth; Zhang, Laurina | Abstract: Digitization has facilitated the proliferation of crowd science by lowering the cost of finding individuals with the... -
Crafting your scientist brand
That a scientist might shape and cultivate a personal brand is a relatively new concept but one that is finding increasing acceptance in this new age of rapid communications and... -
Who is researching biodiversity hotspots in Eastern Europe? A case study on t...
European farmlands are vital arenas for socio-ecological sustainability because of their significant land coverage and potential for integrating food production with... -
Fair ranking of researchers and research teams
The main drawback of ranking of researchers by the number of papers, citations or by the Hirsch index is ignoring the problem of distributing authorship among authors in... -
An educational guide for nanopore sequencing in the classroom.
The last decade has witnessed a remarkable increase in our ability to measure genetic information. Advancements of sequencing technologies are challenging the existing methods... -
What exactly is ‘N’ in cell culture and animal experiments?
This Formal Comment responds to Jordan et al., and stresses that if scientific findings are to be robust, training in experimental design and statistics is critical to ensure... -
Fragments of peer review: A quantitative analysis of the literature (1969-2015)
This paper examines research on peer review between 1969 and 2015 by looking at records indexed from the Scopus database. Although it is often argued that peer review has been... -
Provenance and risk in transfer of biological materials
Whereas biological materials were once transferred freely, there has been a marked shift in the formalisation of exchanges involving these materials, primarily through the use...
