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 […]
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 […]
Quoted in this BMJ piece on live tweeting at academic conferences. Enjoy! 🙂 You’re at a conference and you see or hear something that will interest and inform people in the wider world. It’s the easiest thing to get your phone out and tweet a quote or photo, perhaps of a slide, poster, or study […]
Important post decimating the Journal Impact Factor, while providing valid alternatives. Recently, NIH Scientists B. Ian Hutchins and colleagues have (pre)published “The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR). A new metric that uses citation rates to measure influence at the article level”. Ju… Source: The Relative Citation Ratio: It won’t do your laundry, but can it exorcise the journal impact […]
Edit:Â This is part of an interview series I did for Editage Insights. Enjoy! Jon Tennant is currently a final year PhD (palaeontology) student at Imperial College London in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering. His research focuses on patterns of biodiversity and extinction in deep time and the biological and environmental drivers of these […]