by PeerJ Community | Aug 14, 2017 | Collections, Community, Conferences
The Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA) is the main meeting for the UK’s vertebrate palaeontology community. This meeting has been held annually in the UK, Ireland or France since 1953 and is held in conjunction with the...
by PeerJ Community | Aug 3, 2017 | Interviews
Last week we published Two new species of the Brachycephalus pernix group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the state of Paraná, southern Brazil, which describes two new toadlet species. Author Marcio Pie discusses the findings and their implications for conservation...
by PeerJ Community | Jul 14, 2017 | Community, Guest Post
Early career researchers bear the brunt of negative effects created by closed research practices in a complex system of authority and assessment. In this guest post, Corina Logan, Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, shares news of a new campaign aimed at...
by PeerJ Community | Jul 12, 2017 | Interviews
As part of our interview series with our Academic Editors, we caught up with paleobiologist Kenneth De Baets. We asked him about his research, his thoughts on academic publishing and open access, and how he balances his editorial duties alongside other competing...
by PeerJ Community | Jul 6, 2017 | Interviews
What can a 4D view of bone structure tell us about the range of mechanisms that occur under axial loading in a typical vertebrate long bone? PeerJ recently published A study of the progression of damage in an axially loaded Branta leucopsis femur using X-ray computed...
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