Month: November 2017

Graduate Student Snapshot: Zac Holmes
Graduate student Zac Holmes and his fiancé raise bees–including a queen called Hillabee Clinton.

Ten-Hundred Word Challenge: Part 5
Can graduate students Gretchen Geibel and Aroob Abdelhamid describe their research using ONLY the 1000 must common English words?

The System Sucks: Why Academic Publishing (As It Stands) Is Bad For Reproducible Science
How is the academic publishing system exacerbating the replication crisis in science? What can we do to fix it?

Sometimes Biology Works Against You: Biological Complexity and Reproducible Science
Biology is complicated, and that can be the downfall of reproducible science.

If Your Experiments Are Better, You Can Do More of Them: The Importance of Experimental Design for Reproducible Science
Better experimental design leads to reproducible science. Enforcement falls to journals as well as individual scientists.