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Posted by Katherine Brown, on 22 May 2012
How much does it matter that the images we publish are neat and tidy? It’s a question I’ve been dealing with over the past couple of weeks, and I wanted ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 23 April 2012
Two weeks ago the Guardian newspaper, the safe port of call for most left-leaning liberal academics in the UK, devoted its entire front page to the rise of open access ...Posted by Nishal Patel, on 6 February 2012
After commenting on a previous post, I’ve decided to make my own post about freeware I use regularly that other scientists might find useful. All of these are available for ...Posted by benoitbruneau, on 31 January 2012
This post about the Research Works Act and the effect on society journals was written for, and first published on, Reciprocal Space. Reposted with permission, and edited to add a ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 26 January 2012
Nature featured a news article about digital lab notebooks, which launched a discussion in various places (including the comments of the article itself) about whether or not they’re useful. What ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 22 December 2011
It’s been a busy year for EuroStemCell: Europe’s stem cell hub – see www.eurostemcell.org for more information on who we are. We’d like to wish The Node community a happy ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 5 December 2011
Ever noticed how each field has its own jargon? Benchfly, a site with free video protocols and other resources for researchers, has created “Group Meeting Bingo”. The site generates bingo ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 31 October 2011
After the interview with Ottoline Leyser was posted last week, a discussion on Twitter focussed on the last part of the interview, about parenting. That interview question referred to a ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 6 October 2011
October 7 is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in science and technology. This international day to promote gender equality in these fields was first held in 2009, and is named ...Posted by Nitin Sabherwal, on 26 September 2011
-By Nitin Sabherwal, Eugen Nacu, Heike Laman, Irene Gutierrez Vallejo and Anna Kicheva The second day of the workshop has finished and it is the reporting time now. We had ...