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/months to help disseminate it in more easily digestible bites. Enjoy! This section outlines […]
Welcome to your usual weekly roundup of interesting stuff that happened in the last week! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Previous week. Palaeontology News Xing et al: A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar. Wiersma and Irmis: A new southern Laramidian ankylosaurid, Akainacephalus johnsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Campanian […]
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 […]