How Paper Posters Evolved into Interactive Digital Presentations
Whether you love or dread them, conference presentations are a crucial part of any research-oriented career. Sharing and exchanging findings and information with others in your…
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Hivebench: Electronic Laboratory Notebook for Modern Researchers
The scientific community is well aware of the pitfalls and challenges associated with keeping and storing data. While there may be other data management tools, the most commonly…
Open Access Policies and Funding Agency Mandates
In the first infographic of the open access (OA) series, we shared the names of popular OA journals across different disciplines. However, the OA movement has more dimensions to…
Postdoctoral Job Search: 4 Great Websites to Jump-start Your Career!
You have finally finished your PhD and are feeling pretty good on this achievement! You are confident that your dream job is just around the corner. After all, you have invested in…
How to Publish Symposium-Based Research Presentations
Presenting your research in a conference or professional meeting symposium is a prestigious accomplishment. In a symposium talk, you present a review of your research and…
COOPETIC-Recherche: An Employment Platform Beyond Academia
Many early-career researchers have both skills and education to succeed in academia. However, not all of them are lucky enough to land into their dream positions. So, how long can…
Celebrity Fictional Scientists from Hollywood Movies & TV Shows!
You might not have got your interest in Science by reading books but by watching some crazy, quirky, funny, scary, or even evil scientists from your favorite hollywood movies or TV…
Alarming Data: Cancerous Growth in Predatory Publishing!
The open access movement has not only facilitated unrestricted access to scientific research but also given rise to predatory publishing. This unethical author-pay model has duped…
Grant Funding: Known Problem Areas & Likely Solutions
A recent article published in PLOS One raises questions over the need for competitive research funding. There are many problems with how funding agencies currently operate.…
Alternative Careers That PhD Graduates Should Explore
Scientists at the early-career stage often do not tread the same academic path as their predecessors did towards tenure (Sever and Janssen 2017). The number of PhD awards far…
Overcoming the Paywall Barrier Through Dissemin’s Green Open Access
Green open access (OA) makes research papers available through an OA repository. Although the peer-review process remains unchanged with regards to the traditional…
Necessary Open Science Skills for Academic Researchers
Not everyone is aware of the movement in support of open science, a term coined in 2003 by an economist. Open science tries to make publicly funded academic research more widely…