A guest post for OA Week by Barbara Fister Every spring, when I teach a course for upper-division undergraduates interested in knowing…
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Guest Post Citizenship, Scholarship, and the Republic of ScienceRead more
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Guest Post Tim Vollmer of Creative Commons on HowOpenIsIt?Read more
This is a guest post from Timothy Vollmer, Manager of Policy and Data for Creative Commons Congratulations to PLOS, SPARC, and OASPA…
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Guest Post Fish, Antidepressants, Autism and a Problematic Research PremiseRead more
This week saw publication of a PLOS One paper on a potential environmental cause of autism that caught the attention of the…
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ethics Should Chimpanzees Have Moral Standing? An Interview with Frans de WaalRead more
Whether from hubris or insecurity, humans like to view our species as the crown of creation, beings beyond compare in the animal…
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Guest Post The Renaissance man: how to become a scientist over and over againRead more
Editor’s note: This post originally ran on Ed Yong’s blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, and has been reposted here with permission. -B.Mossop…
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Guest Post Anatomy LessonRead more
Editor’s note: Rebecca German is a Visiting Fellow and Officer of Harvard University where she took gross anatomy as a student, and…
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Guest Post Saving Ethiopia’s “Church Forests”Read more
In America, some fundamental Christians believe that man has a God-given right to use the earth and all its resources to meet…
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Guest Post Let’s say good-bye to the straw-feministRead more
“This was not a permissible hypothesis”. That was social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s recent explanation of the outrage that followed Lawrence Summers’ speech…
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Guest Post OK to GO: Rehabilitating AwesomeRead more
You know that pejorative term we throw around to describe disposable science writing, “gee whiz”? I use it all the time, even…
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Guest Post What Alternative Energy Taught Us About the Fish that Live in the East RiverRead more
Lesson 1: There are fish that live in the East River Sure, New York City’s East River has long been a punchline…