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Jet-lag? Blame your body's clock
Plants, animals and humans are adapted to Earth's rotationFor many years we have known that living organisms, including humans, have an internal biological clock that helps them anticipate and adapt to the regular rhythm of the day. For example, the
An online review of a preprint, written by students. Welcome to the future! Check out https://www.prereview.org/ and contribute your journal clubs online!
This report was prepared by Vienna Biocenter Summer Class 2017 PhD students as a part of their Priming Your PhD training. Please see the instructors and participating students’ names at the end of the review. Shoemaker et al. performed a systematic
Sketching Science
Our first Sketching Science paper!
Jet-lag? Blame your body's clock. For many years we have known that living organisms, including humans, have an internal biological clock that helps them anticipate and adapt to the regular rhythm of the day.... Read more at:
https://journal.sketchingscience.org/users/113017/articles/205894-jet-lag-blame-your-body-s-clock
By Science.Sam and Ernesto Llamas
The journal of Sketching Science, a new type of publication powered by Authorea, has published its first article! Learn more at sketchingscience.org
Plants, animals and humans are adapted to Earth's rotationFor many years we have known that living organisms, including humans, have an internal biological clock that helps them anticipate and adapt to the regular rhythm of the day. For example, the
"Here, we present an extensive functional connectome of Drosophila melanogaster's central complex at cell-type resolution. Using simultaneous optogenetic stimulation and GCaMP recordings and pharmacology, we tested the connectivity between over 70 presynaptic-to-postsynaptic cell-type pairs."
The central complex is a highly conserved insect brain region composed of morphologically stereotyped neurons that arborize in distinctively shaped substructures. The region has been implicated in a wide range of behaviors, including navigat
"Sketching Science images would be a fantastic way to promote a new paper, especially in conjunction with a formal press release from my university."
Illustrations will explain the latest research in an accessible way
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Blogs continue to be an effective platform for communicating your science to major stakeholders — and the public.
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Social networks have made it easy for people to access scientific discoveries. However, social networks have also facilitated the proliferation of pseudoscience, scientific skepticism and conspiracy theories. We believe
"With the right metrics, incentives, and tools, researchers could finally utilize a system of their own, one that would advance research at an accelerated rate."
Research writing and publishing is broken. Hyperbole you say? Perhaps, but I am not sure how else to describe a system where I could have a child faster than I could formally publish a research paper \cite{Björk2013}. A system where I can no longer ac
"The sample of 776 published articles with preprints was matched to 3647 published articles without preprints. Published articles with preprints had significantly higher Altmetric scores than published articles without preprints (median, 9.5 [IQR, 3.1 to 35.3] vs 3.5 [IQR, 0.8 to 12.2], respectively; between-group difference, 4 [IQR, 0 to 15]; P < .001) and received more citations (median, 4 [IQR, 1 to 10] vs 3 [IQR, 1 to 7]; between-group difference, 1 [IQR, −1 to 5]; P < .001)."
This study describes views, downloads, Altmetric scores, and citations of articles published as preprints and differences in Altmetric scores and citations of p
Open hardware for random access plate storage
AbstractWe describe a design that uses 3D printed parts and off-the-shelf components to create an inexpensive system for automated storage and retrieval of microplates. In this way, a robotic system for storage of 24 plates can be built for less than
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How the lignin-first biorefinery strategy unfolded
This article is the backstory behind: S. Van den Bosch, W. Schutyser, B.F. Sels, et al., Reductive lignocellulose fractionation into soluble lignin-derived phenolic monomers and dimers and processable carbohydrate pulps \cite{Bosch2015}.
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"Günter Ziegler, a mathematician at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the consortium's negotiating team, says that German researchers have the upper hand in the negotiations. 'Most papers are now freely available somewhere on the Internet, or else you might choose to work with preprint versions,' he says. 'Clearly our negotiating position is strong. It is not clear that we want or need a paid extension of the old contracts.'"
Scientists in Germany can still read journals even though institutions there have not renewed their subscriptions.
If upon acceptance of an article in a peer-reviewed journal you were asked to write a short non-technical digest of your paper for publication on Authorea, would you? https://twitter.com/authorea/status/948322647401795584
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"In my opinion, it is one of the greatest flaws in our current system that we lock away such academic discussion about research by restricting it to a meeting room with tiny groups of people – I hope that in my lifetime as an academic this can change."
David Kent recounts the highs and lows of his journal club's first pre-review experience.
" It was a hard but productive year. I am thankful for having such wonderful colleagues, trainees, mentors, and patients who make this journey worthwhile."
2017 has been a really exciting year that was full of momentous events for the Faltas Lab. These were some highlights from last year:The Faltas Lab came into existence at Weill-Cornell in 2017 ( officially only a month ago). We are one of only a few
"The critical event that eventually led to the first of my meta-analysis papers on genetic rescue occurred in February 2007"
The critical event that eventually led to the first of my meta-analysis papers on genetic rescue occurred in February 2007 at a book writing session on the second edition of “Introduction to Conservation Genetics” \citep{Frankham} at Jonathan Ballou’s
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David Kent recounts the highs and lows of his journal club's first pre-review experience.
:) We're happy to see more and more students on the platform!
This project explores a variety of therapy and educational methods that can be paired with new technologies to create a virtual reality learning experience that can be customized by the non-technical user (educator or therapist) to address the individ
" I will intentionally avoid going into significant detail concerning why in vitro meat can be beneficial and rather turn my focus on explaining the details of how it can be done, as well as dive into common questions and misconceptions surrounding the technology."
note: This material is copied from a blog post from March 15, 2017, which can be additionally viewed here: https://elliot-swartz.squarespace.com/science-related/invitromeat. IntroductionThe idea of meat consumption without the need of animals has been
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AbstractWe describe a design that uses 3D printed parts and off-the-shelf components to create an inexpensive system for automated storage and retrieval of microplates. In this way, a robotic system for storage of 24 plates can be built for less than
Interactive research--the future is here. https://www.authorea.com/inst/18768
Introducing our latest group, Interactive Research! A place to publish data, interactive figures, and Jupyter Notebooks! https://www.authorea.com/inst/18768
Woof, there it is!
The majority of the world's population has not and will not ever publish a scientific paper. That fact is even more true for pets. Yes, dogs, cats, hamsters. Pets. Surprisingly, however, there are papers with pets as authors. Here's a selection of thr
Our take on #opendata.
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
Lecture notes on Authorea? Yes, we do that:
"In this lecture we will start to put atoms together to build simple molecules."
In this lecture we will start to put atoms together to build simple molecules. We will first use the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, to eliminate slow processes from the study of the fast electron dynamics. Then, we will study simple mechanisms of bin
"If you took a group of academics right now and asked them to create a new system of publishing, nobody would suggest what we're currently doing,"
Scientific search engines are the Napster of academic papers—and they're only getting more powerful.
Our latest Backstory! Two lines of research converge to create immunizing gene-drive mosquitoes https://www.authorea.com/users/176044/articles/233842-two-lines-of-research-converge-to-create-immunizing-gene-drive-mosquitoes
Interactive figures in research publications? Yes, we do that. https://www.authorea.com/users/92108/articles/199720-measuring-the-quality-of-public-transports-in-cities
Experiences teaching a two part workshop on Git and GitHub in the Peer Scholars Program
The Peer Scholars Program is a new series of workshops sponsored and hosted by the NCSU Libraries, and led by postdoctoral scholars and graduate students with specific research skills, such as design, programming, analytics, immersive technologies, vi
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Introducing our latest group, Interactive Research! A place to publish data, interactive figures, and Jupyter Notebooks! https://www.authorea.com/inst/18768
Interactive figures in research publications? Yes, we do that. https://www.authorea.com/users/92108/articles/199720-measuring-the-quality-of-public-transports-in-cities
Interactive maps in Word? Nope! Interactive maps in Authorea? Yep! https://www.authorea.com/users/8850/articles/200276-this-is-an-example-of-a-carto-graph-in-authorea
Using Plotly? You can embed your interactive graphs from Plotly directly in your Authorea doc! Welcome to the future of document editing and publishing. https://www.authorea.com/product
Embedding PDFs online might be todays reality but it is sub-optimal for many reasons: 1) It is not part of the web and thus not indexed appropriately 2) It is a poor reading experience online and on mobile 3) Analysis of readership and engagement is difficult to achieve 4) Content is read primarily online, why design it for print. Interested in publishing your content/reports online, in HTML? Get in contact with us! https://www.authorea.com/users/8850/articles/183582-turn-key-research-writing-and-publishing-with-authorea-for-groups-and-teams
Writing tools like Microsoft Word were designed for the printed page--Authorea was designed for the web. Write your next research document or technical report with us and easily include data (.csv, .xlsx) and/or your Jupyter notebook. Hello future! https://www.authorea.com/users/3/articles/173764-the-arxiv-of-the-future-will-not-look-like-the-arxiv
Did you know you can easily include a Jupyter notebook in any Authorea document? You can! Welcome to the future of data-driven, interactive, and executable research documents. https://www.authorea.com/users/3/articles/173764-the-arxiv-of-the-future-will-not-look-like-the-arxiv
Reproducible figures leads to reproducible science. Include your #jupyter notebook directly in your Authorea document! https://www.authorea.com/users/3/articles/173764-the-arxiv-of-the-future-will-not-look-like-the-arxiv?commit=430682d6a046f0353c38aae7779925bb5152d023
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We've added in-line error reporting for LaTeX writers on Authorea and a new preview mode. Try it out and let us know what you think! authorea.com
Whether you are Donald Knuth himself or you think LaTeX is rubber--you can write your research at authorea.com
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Writing with MS Word? Import your file directly into Authorea and start writing and sharing on the web. It's a great way to collaborate and make your work open access in a manner that is a lot more presentable and discoverable than a PDF on the web.
The future of research writing is not static snapshots of research but data-rich interactive articles that include figures like this. Use Authorea to write your next research article. authorea.com
Authorea makes interactive figures in research papers easy, our authors make them useful and beautiful. From https://www.authorea.com/users/96771/articles/125282/_show_article
What gets us excited? Making something powerful and easy for researchers to more effectively communicate their work. Here's a sneak peek at the citation workflow we're developing. What do you think?
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