This week we interviewed PeerJ Section Editor Dr. Andy Farke as he prepares to take on his new position of Director of the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology and step down from the role of Section Editor for Paleontology and Evolutionary Science*. We would like to...
New Section Editors for PeerJ Life & Environment
We are delighted to announce that PeerJ Life and Environment has four new Section Editors across Plant Biology, Microbiology and Environmental Science. Please welcome Jasmine Janes (Plant Biology), Konstantinos Kormas (Microbiology), Jörg Oehlmann and Monika Mortimer...
University of Ottawa signs agreement with PeerJ for innovative new Institutional Author Membership model to fund Open Access
New three year PeerJ Memberships allows more flexibility for University of Ottawa researchers to choose when they publish. We are delighted to announce that University of Ottawa have signed up to an innovative new approach to fund Open Access publishing. Funded by the...
Navigating Early Careers as Women in Marine Science: A WCMB panel discussion
Every scientist transitions through the initial phases of their career as an early career researcher. It is a challenging career phase, marked by numerous transitions, short term contracts and a lot of uncertainty. In addition, navigating this phase as women in marine...
Navigating paths through science as early career researchers: A WCMB panel discussion
Navigating the winding, complicated, uncertain path through science can be stressful even for seasoned scientists, and often completely overwhelming for early career researchers. A useful method to provide a roadmap for this path is to learn from those who have...
PeerJ Awards Winners at the 2021 Alaska Marine Science Symposium
The Alaska Marine Science Symposium (AMSS), Alaska’s premier marine research conference, has been bringing together scientists, educators, resource managers, students, and interested public for over twenty years to discuss the latest marine research being conducted in...
Call for Papers: Deep Learning Algorithms and Techniques to Identify Deepfakes
Recent years have witnessed the rise and widespread use of deep learning techniques in a variety of areas, ranging from simple data analysis to complex image classification tasks. Lately, deep learning techniques have also been employed to produce “deepfakes” -...
PeerJ Awards Winners at the 5th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity
Following on from our blog post yesterday - a wrap up of the 5th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity written by conference organiser (and PeerJ Life & Environment editor) Mark Costello - we recently interviewed the winners of PeerJ Awards at the meeting. PeerJ...
The 5th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity: on schedule and online
In this guest post, PeerJ Life & Environment Editor Mark Costello wraps up the recent World Conference on Marine Biodiversity - including moving the conference online for the first time! WCMB presenters and attendees can still submit their research on topics...
Recent Advances in Information Fusion – a PeerJ Collection in collaboration with DATA’21
In our latest Conference Collection launch, PeerJ is excited to work alongside the Data’21, Jordan conference - and with PeerJ Computer Science Academic Editors Shadi A. Aljawarneh and Juan Alfonso Lara Torralbo - to publish a Collection on Recent Advances in...










