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...
Yesterday we published “Quantifying climate change impacts emphasises the importance of managing regional threats in the endangered Yellow-eyed penguin” by Thomas Mattern et al. With an estimated 1,700 breeding pairs the Yellow-eyed penguin is one...
Whale sharks are a majestic and endangered species on the IUCN red list whose numbers have been heavily impacted by human activity. As with many other oceanic species, there is very little known about their...
Today we published “Student evaluations of teaching: Teaching quantitative courses can be hazardous to one’s career” by Bob Uttl and Dylan Smibert. This study used 14,872 publicly posted class evaluations with input from over...
We recently published Reproducible and reusable research: are journal data sharing policies meeting the mark? by Nicole Vasilevsky, Jessica Minnier, Melissa Haendel and Robin Champieux. This research looks inward to understand how the biomedical research community is sharing data and...
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