As part of the collaboration between PeerJ and the International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN), we recently gave an award for the Best Early Career Researcher Presentation at IWANN 2021. The award was won by PhD student Shih-Kai Hung for his...
PeerJ Awards at the 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress
PeerJ are excited to announce that we are sponsoring two awards - Best Presentation and Best Poster - at the upcoming 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress in December. We recently talked to organiser Humberto G. Ferrón who gave us an insight into the meeting ...
PeerJ Award Winner at UT Dallas Meeting in Miniature: Fabian C. Herbert
PeerJ Material Science sponsored a PeerJ Award for Outstanding Student Presentation at the ACS/Dallas-Fort Worth section Meeting in Miniature on May 1st - this year held virtually. The award was won by Fabian C. Herbert, who recently gave us an intriguing insight...
Trends from IWANN 2021: A Conference Collection. PeerJ to collaborate with the International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
We are excited to announce a collaboration between PeerJ and the International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN) to publish a Conference Collection of selected research presented at their 2021 meeting, being held between 16th - 18th June. IWANN...
Running an international conference online: Lessons learned from WCMB 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 5th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB) was held online at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Organiser, and PeerJ Life & Environment Academic Editor, Mark John Costello summarizes statistics and feedback from...
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...
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...









