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Amidst a rapid and global “decoupling” from Russia, the scientific community appears divided over a full-blown academic boycott prohibiting Russian authors from…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 18, 2022
A group of scientists investigated how ants can locate their anthills after travelling long distances in search of food. Using path integration, ants can locate a point…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 17, 2022
A team of researchers recently published a study1 that classifies 7,414 vocal expressions from 400 pigs, using AI, into positive and negative emotions. It gives the…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 10, 2022
Being an independent researcher may have different implications based on your current career phase. While funding is often the first thing that comes to mind when we…
- Adita Joshi
- March 10, 2022
In early 2020, Nature announced an opportunity for authors to publish their peer-review exchanges with reviewers as an attempt to bring transparency to the peer review…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 8, 2022
The leaky pipeline is often cited as an obstacle to gender equity in STEM fields, with various reasons attributed to why women leave STEM. On International Women's Day…
- Mriganka Awati
- March 8, 2022
OP Publishing has withdrawn 350 papers from two 2021 conference proceedings as evidence of systematic manipulation and considerable citation manipulation were observed…
- Malvika Gaur
- March 3, 2022
Dr. Jacob Wikham, an ecologist and journal editor, talks about his career as a field biologist and what has kept him going. Read on to know more about his life and…
- Jacob Wickham
- March 2, 2022
An analysis of more than 37,000 articles reveals that authors from low-income countries opt to publish in paywalled journals over open access journals. Rafael Zenni,…
- Malvika Gaur
- February 25, 2022
Hedging is common in academic writing. But is it appropriate? And, if yes, how much should you hedge? This post explains it all.
- Yateendra Joshi
- February 24, 2022