2020 PeerJ Award Winners The global COVID-19 pandemic saw the cancellation or postponement of a great number of academic meetings throughout 2020. Despite some choosing to switch to a fully virtual conference experience, this unfortunately reduced the number of awards...
PeerJ Awards Winners (Speed Talk) at the African Bioacoustic Community Conference 2020
Yesterday, we featured interviews with PeerJ Awards winners for the best full-length presentation at the virtual African Bioacoustic Community Conference 2020. Today, we talk to the winners of PeerJ Awards for best Speed Talk and discuss their research....
PeerJ Awards Winners (Presentation) at the African Bioacoustic Community Conference 2020
The African Bioacoustics Community strives to shine a light on bioacoustic research from Africa and by African scientists. As with many scientific meetings this year, the 2nd edition of the African Bioacoustic Community Conference was forced online as a virtual...
PeerJ Award Winner Beata Mierzwa – ‘Best Scientific Poster Award’ at VIZBI 2019
The PeerJ Awards program aims to support students and early career researchers by recognising their work, as well as bringing continued awareness to the benefits that open access has in keeping science open and available to all. The winners receive a complimentary...
PeerJ Award Winner Hester Hanegraef – Best Talk at the Natural History Museum student conference
The PeerJ Awards program aims to support students and early career researchers by recognising their work, as well as bringing continued awareness to the benefits that open access has in keeping science open and available to all. The winners receive a complimentary...
PeerJ sponsors student prizes at African Bioacoustic Community Conference 2020
PeerJ is delighted to sponsor eight student prizes at the African Bioacoustic Community Conference 2020. The 2020 African Bioacoustics Community conference will build on the success of the first conference held in 2018, providing the opportunity to learn from...
PeerJ Award Winner Isabella Leonhard – ‘The Ins and Outs of coniform conodonts’
The PeerJ Awards program aims to support students and early career researchers by recognising their work, as well as bringing continued awareness to the benefits that open access has in keeping science open and available to all. The winners receive a complimentary...
PeerJ Awards at the 5th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity
PeerJ is delighted to sponsor four awards for scientific communication by Early Career Researchers at this year’s 5th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity. Due to the global coronavirus pandemic the conference will be held virtually, heightening the importance of...
UPDATE! Meet Ann Viera: a Veterinary Medicine Librarian who has dedicated her career to providing access to knowledge
UPDATE: As Ann mentioned in this interview, in lieu of a retirement event or retirement gifts she asked her colleagues at the University of Tennessee to donate to UT's PeerJ Open Access Fund. The response was quite remarkable, and we have recently added those...
A Movement for Change: #BlackBirdersWeek
#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 to face racism. The inaugural event was founded...









