Welcome to your usual weekly roundup of vaguely interesting stuff that happened in the last week! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Palaeontology news Smith et al: The Only Known Jawed Vertebrate with Four Eyes and the Bauplan of the Pineal Complex. Boyd and Lomax: The youngest occurrence of ichthyosaur embryos in […]
Welcome to your usual weekly roundup of vaguely interesting stuff that happened in the last week! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Palaeontology stuff Cadena et al: The first Oligocene sea turtle (Pan-Cheloniidae) record of South America. Pritchard et al: A tiny Triassic saurian from Connecticut and the early evolution of the diapsid […]
Welcome to your usual weekly roundup of vaguely interesting stuff that happened in the last week! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Palaeontology stuff Knapp et al: Patterns of divergence in the morphology of ceratopsian dinosaurs: sympatry is not a driver of ornament evolution. Cleary et al: Lepidosaurian diversity in the Mesozoic–Palaeogene: the […]
Welcome to your usual weekly roundup of vaguely interesting stuff that happened in the last week! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Palaeontology stuff Smiley (2018): Detecting diversification rates in relation to preservation and tectonic history from simulated fossil records. “Results from these simulations indicate that elevated diversification rates in relation to […]
Welcome to the first weekly roundup of vaguely interesting stuff that happened in the last week! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Palaeontology stuff Knoll et al. (2018): A fossil of a juvenile enantiornithine tells us about the skeletal development in early birds during the Cretaceous period. LeBlanc et al. (2018): […]
So I’ve been thinking a bit about copyright issues with scholarly research recently, and have a few questions about the ethics of copyright transfer. Typically, the process of copyright transfer for research articles happens something like this: Researchers submit a manuscript to a journal for peer review. Should that paper be accepted for publication after […]
Source: Episode #43: Interview with Jon Tennant about Open Science – PhD Career Stories
This is adapted from our recent paper in F1000 Research, entitled “A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review.” Due to its rather monstrous length, I’ll be posting chunks of the text here in sequence over the next few weeks to help disseminate it in more easily digestible bites. Enjoy! This section describes […]
Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain. You can’t go anywhere these days without hearing this buzzword. Now it seems that it is coming for science, and that’s kinda exciting. What is the blockchain? To keep things simple: A blockchain is a continuously growing and immutable list of records (blocks), which are linked (chain) and secured using cryptography. Each […]
This is adapted from our recent paper in F1000 Research, entitled “A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review.” Due to its rather monstrous length, I’ll be posting chunks of the text here in sequence over the next few weeks to help disseminate it in more easily digestible bites. Enjoy! This section describes […]