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Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects.
To survive and thrive, a community must attract new members, retain them, and help them be productive [1]. As openness becomes the norm in research, software development, and... -
Characterizing college science instruction: The Three-Dimensional Learning Ob...
The importance of improving STEM education is of perennial interest, and to this end, the education community needs ways to characterize transformation efforts.... -
Retention and promotion of women and underrepresented minority faculty in sci...
The current climate on college campuses has brought new urgency to the need to increase faculty diversity. In STEM fields particularly, the dearth of underrepresented minority... -
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... -
A pedagogical approach to science outreach
Encouragement of students across all communities through scientific outreach programs is critical to engaging the next generation, exciting young minds to pursue careers 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... -
Haves and have nots must find a better way: The case for open scientific hard...
With the current rapid spread of COVID-19, global health systems are increasingly overburdened by the sheer number of people that need diagnosis, isolation and treatment.... -
Ten simple rules for an inclusive summer coding program for non-computer-scie...
Since 2015, we have run a free 9-week summer program that provides non-computer science (CS) undergraduates at San Francisco State University (SFSU) with experience in coding... -
How Safe Do Teenagers Behave on Facebook? An Observational Study
The substantial use of social network sites by teenagers has raised concerns about privacy and security. Previous research about behavior on social network sites was mostly... -
The impact of peer pressure on cigarette smoking among high school and univer...
Background Cigarettes and their by-products (i.e., smoke; ash) are a complex, dynamic, and reactive mixture of around 5,000 chemicals. Cigarette smoking potentially harms... -
The collaborative effect of scientific meetings: A study of the International...
Collaboration among scientists has a major influence on scientific progress. Such collaboration often results from scientific meetings, where scientists gather to present and... -
Cognitive ability, education and socioeconomic status in childhood and risk o...
BackgroundDepression after stroke is common and is associated with poorer recovery. Risk factors such as gender, age and stroke severity are established, but it is unclear... -
Designing a course model for distance-based online bioinformatics training in...
This publication hasn't any creative commons license associated. This deposit is composed by the main article plus the supplementary materials of the publication. This deposit... -
Exploring collective emotion transmission in face-to-face interactions
Collective emotion is the synchronous convergence of an effective response across individuals toward a specific event or object. Previous studies have focused on the... -
Patching a leak in an R1 university gateway STEM course
: A cognitively intensive companion service course has been introduced to the main fall general chemistry class at Cornell University. For years 2015 and 2016, priority students... -
State tobacco control expenditures and tax paid cigarette sales.
This research is the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between actual state-level tobacco control spending in each of the 5 CDC’s Best Practices... -
The art and science of selecting graduate students in the biomedical sciences...
: The goal of this study was to investigate associations between admissions criteria and performance in Ph.D. programs at Boston University School of Medicine. The initial phase...
