Alan Alda's Experiment: Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us
Blog, Careers, Education, Education General, Skills and Advice, Writing/Reviewing/Publishing/CommunicatingAn 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. "It sounds like an exaggeration, but I don't think it is. When patients can't relate to their doctors…
Review: Auxin perception and downstream events ($)
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The mechanism by which auxin alters patters of transcription through TIR1s, ARFs and IAA proteins is well established, but less clear is our understanding of how rapid, non-transcriptional auxin responses occur. APB1 was implicated in non-transcriptional responses, but in the past few years evidence…
The Global Plant Council visits the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
GPC BlogThis post is republished with the kind permission of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF).
We at the APPF love visits from our global plant science community, so it was a treat to host Ruth Bastow, Executive Director of the Global Plant Council (GPC), this week.
While she was…
Review: Communication in the phytobiome ($)
Plant Science Research Weekly, ResearchAn old ad stated, “Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible,” but it’s only more recently that we’ve begun to understand the importance of semiochemicals – chemicals produced for communication. Leach et al. pull together insights from chemical ecologists, soil scientists, plant pathologists…
Plant Scientists in the Wild (#FoPD)
Blog, Education, Education General, Education General PublicGuest post by Emily Larson @erlarson_phd and Maria Papanatsiou @m_papanatsiou, postdocs at the University of Glasgow, Scotland
If there is one stereotype about some scientists that contains a shred of truth it is that we are definitely indoor kids – at least professionally speaking. We spend a…
Ten simple rules to make the most out of your undergraduate research career
Plant Science Research Weekly, ResearchUndergraduate research is a transformative experience for many early-career scientists, allowing them to experience the joys and pains of research first hand. Yu and Kuo offer some straightforward advice to help students gain the most from this opportunity. While some of the advice is directed towards…
Review: Synthetic biology approaches for the production of plant metabolites in unicellular organisms ($)
Plant Science Research Weekly, ResearchThe excellent review by Moses et al. starts by defining the oft-confused terms metabolite engineering and systems biology. Although systems biology can contribute to the former, it is distinguished by the use of “defined ‘parts’ that are easily combined and exchanged, using standardized workflows…
Scientific integrity resource guide
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Scientific integrity is at the forefront of the scientific research enterprise. This paper provides an overview of key existing efforts on scientific integrity by federal agencies, foundations, nonprofit organizations, professional societies, and academia from 1989 to April 2016. It serves…
How to break down cultural and language barriers in the lab (C&EN)
Careers, Careers - Blog, Workplace DiversityVolume 95 Issue 20 | p. 30
Issue Date: May 15, 2017 | Web Date: May 9, 2017
By Chemjobber
The best science happens when all hypotheses are considered and all voices are heard. Not only that: If important safety information isn’t communicated among all lab members, someone could get hurt.
How…