Did you know that birds and crocodiles are practically cousins? Around 230 million years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference between the two different lineages. This is because birds and crocodilians (which includes alligators, caiman, and gharials) are part of a much larger group called Archosauria, or ruling lizards, which means they […]
Over the last 20 years, there has grown insurmountable evidence that birds are the direct modern descendants of dinosaurs. Eagles are dinosaurs. Pigeons are dinosaurs, annoyingly. Even penguins are weird, swimming dinosaurs. The data supporting this comes from a whole range of scientific domains, from the discovery of thousands of feathered dinosaurs in the fossil record to chemical […]
So anyone who knows me knows that I’m not the hugest fan of large, commercial publishers, and for a variety of reasons. I want to tell you of a recent experience though with Wiley, one of the most prominent (profiteering) research publishers out there. This experience, in combination with numerous other factors, was so infuriating, that […]
Embargo periods on scientific research are now fairly commonplace. They are sanctions imposed by publishers on different versions of a research manuscript, often termed the author-accepted manuscript (AAM) or post-print, in order to delay public release of those versions. Typically at this stage, the publishers themselves have had little or no input to the process besides […]
For the last 3-4 years of my PhD, I’ve been doing first-hand research on a group of extinct crocodile-ancestors (Crocodyliformes) called atoposaurids. I’ve published a couple of papers on these already as part of an ongoing study into their morphology, taxonomy and evolutionary relationshps. So I’m pleased to announce a monstrous new paper that looks […]
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In the spirit of openness, here’s my application for the 2016 Mozilla Science Fellowship! The deadline for applications is July 15th, so it’s not too late to apply! Good luck to all other applicants too! 🙂 CV, cover letter. Describe to us how open science advances your research. (100 words) The core data for my […]
This is a Press Release provided by F1000. Wellcome will launch an open research publishing platform this autumn to enable their grantees to rapidly publish all outputs from their research. Wellcome Open Research will use services developed by F1000Research to make research outputs available faster and in ways that support reproducibility and transparency. It will […]
This was originally posted here. This interview presents the perspectives of an early-career researcher who conducts research, publishes papers, attends academic conferences as part of his PhD, travels to different parts of the world to help educate researchers about open research and science policy, blogs actively, serves as a peer reviewer, and makes time for […]
It started out with a tweet. I simply wanted to figure out how many traditional peer reviews students did during their PhD, mostly out of sheer curiosity. Here are the results below: How many formal peer reviews did you do/have you done during your PhD? — Dr. Jon Tennant (@Protohedgehog) June 22, 2016 So one-third […]