Congratulations go to Christiana McDonald-Spicer, winner of the PeerJ Award for Best Oral Presentation at the International Biogeography Society meeting IBS 2019 in Malaga, Spain last month. The PeerJ Award includes a free publication in PeerJ (upon submission and...
Early Career Researchers PeerJ co-founder Jason Hoyt speaks with Dr. Corina Logan in this ongoing series on "Bad Science." Dr. Logan is a Senior Researcher in Evolutionary Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute where her lab studies how species adapt to new...
(Listen to Bad Science Part 1 here) Cogs in the machine PeerJ co-founder Jason Hoyt speaks with Cardiff University psychology professor Chris Chambers in this ongoing series on "Bad Science." Introduction 0:05 – The widening division between science and the public...
In this multipart series on bad science, PeerJ co-founder Jason Hoyt speaks with University of Oxford Professor Dorothy Bishop about the pressures to publish great results, p-hacking, registered reports, and open science. 1:50 – When she first learned how pervasive...
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Yesterday we published an exciting paleontology paper by Caleb Brown titled 'An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur reveals the morphology and allometry of osteoderms and their horny epidermal coverings'. This 'one-in-a-billion' nodosaur specimen is currently on...
Back in October, we published Infection of army ant pupae by two new parasitoid mites (Mesostigmata: Uropodina) by Adrian Brückner, Hans Klompen, Andrew Iain Bruce, Rosli Hashim, and Christoph von Beeren. The study describes two new Macrodinychus species of mites. The...
Last week we published Foliar microbiome transplants confer disease resistance in a critically-endangered plant by Geoffrey Zahn and Anthony Amend. Their study tested whether fungi could be engineered and employed to help plants respond to fight disease, thereby...
Credit: Chimpanzee, taken at the Los Angeles Zoo by Aaron Logan (CC BY 2.5) We recently published Spontaneous reoccurrence of “scooping”, a wild tool-use behaviour, in naïve chimpanzees by Elisa Bandini and Claudio Tennie. Their research looks at the individual...
Yesterday we published 'Estimated effects of implementing an open access policy for grantees at a private foundation' by Carly Strasser and Eesha Khare which looked at the effects of The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's policy to require grantees to publish in open...
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