Today we published Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species by Michelangelo...
Who reads your work and who are you intending to reach in publishing your research? As mentioned in a previous post on how researchers assess journal quality, authors decide where to publish based on...
We are pleased to announce that we will be publishing a PeerJ Collection for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2017) in Austin, TX. The meeting will...
‘Impact’ is one of those words that can simultaneously provoke hope, anger, anxiety, and derision among scientists, publishers and research funders alike. We expect the full range of emotions following last week’s release of...
Changes to bio-oceanographic conditions can trigger devastating mortality events for marine mammals. In March 2015, by far the largest reported mass mortality of baleen whales took place in a gulf in Southern Chile. In...
Research on vulnerable species has been instrumental in protecting habitats and wildlife. But the same research can also be negatively used for illegal poaching activities. In this guest post, Georgina Cronin, Research Support Librarian...
Last week PeerJ published “Experience-based human perception of facial expressions in Barbary macaques (Macaca silvanus)” by Laetitia Marechal, Xandria Levy, Kerstin Meints and Bonaventura Majolo. This study sought to investigate the evolutionary relationship of...
To coincide with the Progressive Palaeontology 2017 conference taking place, we thought it might be worth providing a quick look at the recent paleontology research in PeerJ. Over the last few months, PeerJ has peer-reviewed and...
PeerJ is proud to be sponsoring “Progressive Palaeontology 2017“, an annual meeting for postgraduate research students which starts later this week at the University of Leicester. The conference is being organised by Jordan Bestwick, Thomas...
This month PeerJ Computer Science published “A survey of secure middleware for the Internet of Things” by Paul Fremantle and Philip Scott from the University of Portsmouth. With the continuing growth of the number of...
Last week PeerJ published “Pollen extracts and constituent sugars increase growth of a trypanosomatid parasite of bumble bees” by Evan Palmer-Young and Lucy Thursfield. Bumble bees throughout the world are facing significant issues with...
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