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...
Interview with PeerJ Section Editor Andy Farke
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...
PeerJ talks to Prof Jan H. Jensen – Physical Chemistry Editor, Author and Reviewer.
PeerJ talks to Prof Jan H. Jensen about his latest published article High throughput virtual screening of 230 billion molecular solar heat battery candidates and experience as an Author, Reviewer and Editor for PeerJ Physical Chemistry Could you tell us a little bit...
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...
PeerJ Award Winner: Joel Pinney – Best 3MT at the RiTA2020 Conference
PeerJ has collaborated with the 8th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2020) to launch a PeerJ Computer Science Collection on Advances in Computational Learning for Robotics (see the Call for Papers here). We also...










