PeerJ talked to Michael T. Bogan, Assistant professor at University of Arizona about the recently published article ‘If you build it, they will come: rapid colonization by dragonflies in a new effluent-dependent river reach.’ Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I'm...
Author Interview: Endocranial anatomy of the ceratopsid dinosaur Triceratops and interpretations of sensory and motor function
PeerJ talked to Rina Sakagami about the recently published article Endocranial anatomy of the ceratopsid dinosaur Triceratops and interpretations of sensory and motor function. Rina is a researcher from Fukui Prefectural University, Japan. Can you tell us a bit...
PeerJ talks to Mairin Balisi
My name is Mairin Balisi, I am a co-author on this paper, along with the lead authors Dr. Haowen Tong, at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, and Dr. Xiaoming Wang, who is here at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County...
Author Interview: Adaptations to cursoriality and digit reduction in the forelimb of the African wild dog
Anatomists Heather F. Smith, Brent Adrian, Aryeh Grossman of Midwestern University release new research into the adaptations to cursoriality and digit reduction in the forelimb of the African wild dog (Lycaon pictus). The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), an...
Author Interview: A new ophiacanthid brittle star (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from sublittoral crinoid and seagrass communities of late Maastrichtian age in the southeast Netherlands
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museums in Luxembourg and Maastricht have discovered a previously unknown species of brittle star that lived in the shallow, warm sea which covered parts of the present-day Netherlands at the end of the Dinosaur Era. The...
Individual behavioral type captured by a Bayesian model comparison of cap making by sponge crabs – Author Interview with Keita Harada
As part of PeerJ's Author Interview Series we're revisiting popular and impactful articles from the first half of the year to take a look inside the research process. One paper that sparked social comment back in May was a marine biology paper from researchers at...
PeerJ Computer Science’s most-cited papers: Software citation principles – Author Interview with Daniel S. Katz, Arfon M. Smith and Kyle E. Niemeyer
Impact is more than just a number. For this interview series, we revisited some of the most cited papers published in PeerJ Computer Science and asked the authors to tell us about the real-world impact and applications of their research beyond the number of citations...
PeerJ Computer Science’s most cited paper: Probabilistic programming in Python using PyMC3 – Author Interview with Thomas Wiecki
Impact is more than just a number. For this interview series we revisited some of the most cited papers published in PeerJ Computer Science and asked the authors to tell us about the real-world impact and applications of their research beyond the number of citations...
Monitoring the influx of a new ant species through citizen science: Author interview with Julie K. Sheard and Rasmus Stenbak Larsen
We recently published Monitoring the influx of new species through citizen science: the first introduced ant in Denmark The study was prompted by a children's citizen science project in Denmark that explored the distribution of ants by setting up baiting experiments,...
A high-resolution growth series of Tyrannosaurus rex obtained from multiple lines of evidence – Author Dr. Thomas D. Carr discusses his new study
A new study led by Carthage College paleontologist Dr. Thomas D. Carr finds that size and weight doesn’t determine the age of Tyrannosaurus rex. Here Dr. Carr discusses the research journey behind his recently published paper A high-resolution growth series of...










