A Curated Collection of Resources
Earlier this year I gave a Plantae seminar on “Images for Impact” – simple, free tips about how to source and create images to use in your science writing and communicating.
Here is the text of…
Another excellent entry in PLOS Computational Biology’s “Ten Simple Rules” series.
Read “Ten simple rules for writing a response to reviewers” here.
Short version:
Rule 1: Provide an overview, then…
Words of Wisdom from Those Who Publish (and Do Not Perish)
By Helen Sword
A PhD student approached me after a writing workshop to recount his tale of woe. “I write these messy, incoherent first…
A 2011 editorial from the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC).
Any jackass can trash a manuscript, but it takes good scholarship to create one (how MBoC promotes civil and constructive peer review)
http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/22/5/525.long
Key…
An NPR interview with Alan Alda about his efforts to help scientists learn to communicate.
“People are dying because we can’t communicate in ways that allow us to understand one another,” he writes.…
PSALSE resource inventory 2015
The Professional Societies Alliance for Life Science Education (PSALSE) offers an inventory that distills how PSALSE affiliates organize their program categories and activities.…
At the present time, US funding is frequently below 10% for a given grant program. Today, more than ever, we need all the help we can get in writing successful grant proposals. We hope you find these rules…
Preparation of a successful grant proposal generally requires the ability to communicate effectively with two entirely different audiences. You want to come across as knowledgeable to the reviewers who…
Young, aspiring researchers often have to learn the hard way when it comes to writing a killer grant application. But a range of European initiatives aims to give them a helping hand. Karen Kreeger reports…
Unless specified in an NSF program solicitation, proposals submitted to NSF must be submitted electronically via use of either the NSF FastLane System or Grants.gov. Further information on each system…
Earlier this year I gave a Plantae seminar on “Images for Impact” – simple, free tips about how to source and create images to use in your science writing and communicating.
Here is the text of…
Another excellent entry in PLOS Computational Biology’s “Ten Simple Rules” series.
Read “Ten simple rules for writing a response to reviewers” here.
Short version:
Rule 1: Provide an overview, then…
Words of Wisdom from Those Who Publish (and Do Not Perish)
By Helen Sword
A PhD student approached me after a writing workshop to recount his tale of woe. “I write these messy, incoherent first…
A 2011 editorial from the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC).
Any jackass can trash a manuscript, but it takes good scholarship to create one (how MBoC promotes civil and constructive peer review)
http://www.molbiolcell.org/content/22/5/525.long
Key…
An NPR interview with Alan Alda about his efforts to help scientists learn to communicate.
“People are dying because we can’t communicate in ways that allow us to understand one another,” he writes.…
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