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How's this for an eye-opener?
Budden AE, Tregenza T, Aarssen LW, Koricheva J, Leimu R, Lortie CJ. 2008. Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23:4-6.
Abstract
Double-blind peer review, in which neither author nor reviewer identity are revealed, is rarely practised in ...
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I'm sorry to say, but today marks my 4 1/2 year mark of being a PhD student. And I am even sorrier to say today that my scholarship expired. So, I'm going to be 'roughing it' until I can find any sort of employment, the search for which is still being unfruitful.
I submitted my nomination of examiners form this week, so that should be on its way ...
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This week's article was: Leininger S, Urich T, Schloter M, Schwark L, Qi J, Nicol GW, Prosser JI, Schuster SC, Schleper C 2006. Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils. Nature 442:806-809.
The title was initially a bit jargony for most of us, without the presence of a soil (or any type of) biologist in this week's ...
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Whilst I appear to have signed up for a long stint of countless reworkings of my thesis this year, all in the name of giving it such a high quality style that it must have come out of the top journal in the world, it seems others can get away with not paying much attention to their work at all. No, I'm not talking about other students here at UWA. ...
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Organising the first meeting was surprisingly straightforward. Nearly everyone interested could come at one of the offered times, so out first go at this is on Thursday 30 November, 10am at the UWA club. The coffee is reputedly quite drinkable . . .
Our first article is:Marris, E. 2006. Putting the carbon back: Black is the new green. Nature ...
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The text below is what I sent out to everyone in my Discipline a week ago. There wasn't an avalanche of interest but those who did want to participate seemed enthusiastic, which was encouraging.
An intention of the group was (at least eventually) to encourage our own writing efforts. Perhaps by being inspired by research and getting ideas into ...
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