Today’s Interview with an Author is with Dr. Katharine Stuble, the first author on “Ant-mediated seed dispersal in a warmed world” which we published this month. We were very interested in hearing more about her work and experience with us. Katie...
Shiny Happy PeerJ People
Last week, to celebrate International Day of Happiness, we announced an T-Shirt competition for people to tweet about how PeerJ made them happy. We are now happy to announce the winners! They are: And yes we know that is 11 people, not 10, but you can never hand out...
Celebrating the International Day of Happiness
Tomorrow (March 20th) is the International Day of Happiness π Part of what makes us happy is to have happy authors, reviewers, editors and readers. So to help celebrate and promote the event, we are giving away 10 of the sought after PeerJ T-Shirts. To enter, all you...
Submit a single PDF to PeerJ for peer-review
PeerJ's mission is to "help the world efficiently publish its knowledge" and so we are pleased to announce the latest step towards fulfilling that mission - single file submission. It is a sad fact that most people find the process of submitting their work to a...
Interview With Dr. Alecia Carter β βDonβt judge a baboon by its performance in a cognitive task!β
Today’s Interview with an Author is with Dr. Alecia Carter, the first author on “Personality predicts the propensity for social learning in a wild primate” which we published today. If you are interested in asking Dr Carter (or one of her co-authors,...
Ask Me Anything – Baboon personalities and animal social behaviors
Tomorrow, we will be publishing an important paper which reports on Baboon personalities, authored by Dr. Alecia Carter and colleagues. By studying baboons in Namibia (with the Tsaobis Baboon Project), these researchers examined how personality influenced whether...
Discovery in France of one of the worst invasive alien species – the time to act is now
Today, we are pleased to publish “The invasive New Guinea flatworm Platydemus manokwari in France, the first record for Europe: time for action is now”, and we invited Pr. Jean-Lou Justine, first author on the paper, to comment on his research. Jean-Lou...
Is today’s science where the software industry was in the 70s?
Today there are literally billions of apps that you can download to your smartphone anywhere in the world and start using in seconds. Imagine a totally different world though, one where in order to use an App you had to buy a new phone each time or spend weeks...
What motivates a person to put a soon to be peer-reviewed manuscript on a preprint server?
What happens when you ask twitter for an opinion on preprints? Well first of all, an impromptu competition gets announced, and then the party starts! On Wednesday, Devin Drown asked what motivates a person to put a soon to be peer-reviewed manuscript on a preprint...
Interview with Dr. Mark Biggin – Don’t underestimate protein abundances and the relative importance of transcription
Today, we publish “System Wide Analyses have Underestimated Protein Abundances and the Importance of Transcription in Mammals”. This new study, led by Dr. Mark Biggin, suggests that the major reason why protein and mRNA abundance measurements are poorly...








