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...
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...
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...
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...
#BlackBirdersWeek took place across social media platforms last week as an initiative by a group of Black scientists to celebrate Black birders, and affirm the rights of Black naturalists to be in nature without having...
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...
Today we published “Spotting the “small eyes”: using photo-ID methodology to study a wild population of smalleye stingrays (Megatrygon microps) in southern Mozambique“. In this study, scientists assessed the suitability of photographic-identification for identifying...
A new preprint was recently shared on PeerJ Preprints on the Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Erin McKiernan discuss the investigation...
Earlier this month we published “Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America“. In this study, researchers report on key taxonomic differences between the American mastodon, Mammut americanum,...
Today we published “The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific“. In this study, researchers review all records of the shark from western North America to...
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