Tag: Alison Gilchrist

CU Engineering Center reports that Ralphie has been a robot this whole time
The CU Boulder campus is reeling today after news broke that Ralphie V, beloved buffalo mascot, has been a robot the whole time.

One Weird Trick to Increase Your Citations
Other scientists would hate you!

Why chasing Bigfoot could actually be good for science
Scientists can, and do, leverage public interest in strange creatures to do large sequencing projects

Plant a Garden Under A Glacier
CU Boulder scientists replicate a decades-old vicuña poop experiment

To Gossip Is Human; To Math, Divine
Can we make math more human to improve mathematical skills?

Policy, postcards and pints
How CU Boulder graduate students are advocating for science.

Arpeggio Biosciences is studying “dark DNA”
This CU Boulder start-up is off to a running start with ambitious goals.

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.