This month PeerJ Computer Science published "A survey of secure middleware for the Internet of Things" by Paul Fremantle and Philip Scott from the University of Portsmouth. With the continuing growth of the number of devices connected to the internet, the security of...
Last week PeerJ published "Pollen extracts and constituent sugars increase growth of a trypanosomatid parasite of bumble bees" by Evan Palmer-Young and Lucy Thursfield. Bumble bees throughout the world are facing significant issues with many species becoming extinct...
Yesterday we published "Quantifying climate change impacts emphasises the importance of managing regional threats in the endangered Yellow-eyed penguin" by Thomas Mattern et al. With an estimated 1,700 breeding pairs the Yellow-eyed penguin is one of the rarest...
Whale sharks are a majestic and endangered species on the IUCN red list whose numbers have been heavily impacted by human activity. As with many other oceanic species, there is very little known about their life history. Last week PeerJ published "Oceanic adults,...
Today we published "Student evaluations of teaching: Teaching quantitative courses can be hazardous to one's career" by Bob Uttl and Dylan Smibert. This study used 14,872 publicly posted class evaluations with input from over 325,000 students to identify the...
We recently published Reproducible and reusable research: are journal data sharing policies meeting the mark? by Nicole Vasilevsky, Jessica Minnier, Melissa Haendel and Robin Champieux. This research looks inward to understand how the biomedical research community is...
Last week, PeerJ published "Density estimates of monarch butterflies overwintering in central Mexico". This beautiful and iconic species (Danaus plexippus L.) is often featured in natural history documentaries as they have a fascinating migratory life cycle. In...
Last month we published "A multidisciplinary approach to digital mapping of dinosaurian tracksites in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian-Barremian) Broom Sandstone of the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia" by Anthony Romilio, Jorg M. Hacker, Robert Zlot, George...
PeerJ has recently launched a collection on Bioinformatics Software Tools. This collection is collating the most interesting and relevant articles on bioinformatics tools which have been published in PeerJ and PeerJ Computer Science. The bioinformatics community has...
Today we published True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) in Macaronesia by Natacha Aguilar de Soto et al. In this paper, scientists show that the Azores and to a lesser extent the Canary Islands may actually be a hot-spot for the study of True´s beaked whales. The...
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