...to breathe!)   Public speaking as a transferable skill The worst thing about doing public speaking as a...Public speaking is not just one of the most common phobias–it’s a key part of being a scientist and an...turned science communicator, I’ve done a lot of public speaking, and I'm happy to share what I've learned...split-second decision, I had always thought I had an obligation to the audience to keep going no matter what,...would let me accomplish my goal.   As a scientist, public speaking isn't a performance art. You’re (usually...goal. Yay!   You’re only human When it comes to public speaking, Murphy’s law definitely applies: what...technical difficulties, and runs into unexpected stumbling blocks. The problem is, when it happens to other...

...world of science publishing, and an ever increasing number of journals and publishers to choose from, ...the manuscript is accepted for publication and is, in most cases, blind (meaning you don’t know who the... to be revised before it can be published, this can delay publication and manuscripts may go through several...should I choose? Writing a research paper for publication in a scientific journal requires several considerations...considerations. First, it is important to establish the type of audience you want to reach with your paper...research may stipulate that your article must be published in an open access journal or by using the open...open access option in a conventional journal. Publishing via open access means that your manuscript will...

...open-access journal that enables high school students to publish peer-reviewed scientific research. You’ll meet ...Arooba Ahmed, Jiachen Lee, and Jillian Parker who published their work on a protein required for cytokinesis...

...onto data longer before publishing. But there are strong incentives to publish such as precedence, recognition...are also taking root. Nature Publishing Group recently launched a publication called Scientific Data, which...This post was contributed by Jim Woodgett. Public Library of Science (PLOS) created a stir earlier this...sharing policy. Since early March, the open access publisher has required authors to include a note as to where...data supporting the research reported in PLOS publications. The policy was not an overnight revelation,...result of consultations between researchers and publishers. Nonetheless, the initial release caused a storm... is founded on the principle that scientific publications must contain enough information (or links to...

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...Initiative. Endy's team made news in March with a publication in Science describing the development of “transcriptors...are now available at Addgene through the Biobrick Public Agreement (BPA) Plasmid Collection along with a...It's wonderful to have Addgene as a professional public-benefit partner who shares our core values." Addgene...BIOFAB and BIL gates plasmid kits, the Biobricks Public Agreement, and the future of the bioeconomy. Addgene...

...Cas14 to the mix, you get the ultimate combination enabling the detection of RNA, dsDNA, and now ssDNA. By...

...researchers to share data thereby enabling you to do modified analyses on published data if you need to. Similarly...previously published results. This over-reliance on the perfect story for a “high impact” publication can lead...that only these positive results will be published. The publication record will then show that the tested...like ReFigure which aims to consolidate published and unpublished experiments on similar subjects in a single...are new publishing outlets like F1000, PeerJ, PLoS, and bioRxiv that make it easier to publish (or pre-publish...that promote reproducible publishing practices. One example is the publication of peer reviews so we can...speakers from academia, industry, nonprofits, and publishing. The livestream video from the event can be found...

... newly published papers that contain that term. You can also set up alerts for new publications from a...topic or that were published by the lab down the hall.  Scientific journals: They publish papers, so naturally...show all publications by an author, total number of citations, and the number of publications that heavily...read the abstract or full text of the paper, publication date, a relevance score, and type of article....of the number of papers with your search term published each year, which is a nice way to see growth or... work, so it’s also a good place to look for publications. Bonus: papers have to be summarized in 280 ...organizations, and universities often tweet about publications in the fields of research they support. Monitoring...

...online form you can submit "Published plasmids" or "Unpublished or pre-publication plasmids" and set a desired...plasmids. You can submit "Unpublished or pre-publication plasmids": Unpublished plasmids or plasmids that...plasmid(s) online (left), choose to submit published or unpublished plasmid(s). Fields marked with an asterisk...in PubMed and choose the appropriate publication. This publication will be listed at the top of the final...that will not be published are accepted. Addgene also encourages submitting pre-publication plasmids so they...are happy to update the publication information once the manuscript is published in a peer-reviewed journal...desired distribution status. You can submit "Published plasmids": This option allows you to quickly associate...

...proceeding in 99% of 12-fragment assemblies and over 90% for 24-fragment assemblies (Figure 3, Table 1). These...for Golden Gate Assemblies with BsaI-HFv2 and T4 DNA ligase. Efficiency of assemblies per plate using ...reaction to form complex, multi-insert modular assemblies that enable biosynthetic pathway engineering ...optimization. However, current best practices for assemblies of more than 10 modules often rely on two-step...placed practical limits on single- or two-step assemblies. We have reduced these limitations through the...that it is now possible to achieve 20+ fragment assemblies with both robust efficiency and accuracy. Golden...cassette. Additional confirmation of accurate assemblies was achieved by the sequencing of plasmids isolated...

...the OpenWorm website. microPublication microPublication is a unique publication for the worm community...resource for scientists to publish findings that don't fit into larger publications and would otherwise be... referenced. In addition the data published in microPublications is curated and added to other databases...introducing point mutations that was published in a microPublication (Schwartz and Jorgensen, 2018).  These... Map & Network (CeNGEN) The CeNGEN goal is to establish a comprehensive gene expression atlas of every...aims and approach of CeNGEN, check out their publication.   3’UTRome The 3’UTRs of mRNA are important ...community where one can publish brief novel findings. These results are normally one figure and can be negative...

...shared by the authors on a public server independent from peer-reviewed publishing in a journal.  Accelerating... with each other: from formal mechanisms like publishing a research article, presenting a conference poster...while peer review is valuable, modern scientific publishing has a number of drawbacks, especially the increasingly...increasingly growing time from submission to publication. It takes many months, often more than a year,...avoid many of these issues, by sharing their work publicly and immediately once the manuscript is drafted...and updated by the authors over time, providing a public record of changes, critiques or endorsements. In...work is still in progress or awaiting a final publication in a journal.  Preprints can be one tool in a...

...of the largest bibliographic databases available, Web of Science. For each publication, Web of Science...citations in its first four years (1). In addition to publishing in Science, Professor Zhang deposited the associated...Science provides basic bibliographic information and uses its vast network of articles to track the total number...Science, PLOS One, and PNAS. We then broke the publications from these journals into two groups: those containing...CRISPR/Cas papers and Addgene deposits, but papers published in other years also get many more citations This...For example, it is very plausible that science published in more widely-read journals gets more citations...adjust our estimates based on the journal that published the articles.  That is, we re-estimate the citations...

...to inform the public (8–13). Facing the possibility that reason is losing ground in public discourse, many...Democrats more often than Republicans, the March is not about Democrats or Republicans (16). This is a Pro-... Idea Pew Research Center: Public Praises Science; Scientists Fault Public, Media March for Science: Principles...autism, and other hypotheses mount yet policies and public opinion do not seem to take note. For example, ...consumption in comparison to 37% of the general public (5, 6). Similarly 90% of active research scientists...to human activity while much less of the general public agrees (5, 6). Many of the new administration’s...Lost trust Perhaps the greatest risk is that the public will lose trust in scientists if the march highlights...

...favorite gene was described in a CRISPR screen publication. You see this mentioned in the results section...CRISPR-based phenotypic screen datasets. Original published CRISPR screen data is curated and deposited in...in BioGRID ORCS to allow facile queries of published data by biomedical researchers and ready access to...manually curated and annotated from more than 45 publications, beginning with the seminal research articles... makes it possible for researchers to query all public CRISPR results for any gene of interest. In addition...screen curated in ORCS is linked to the original publication via its PubMed identifier, which can also be ...screens of interest.   Figure 3: Each publication featured in BioGRID ORCS has a dedicated summary...

...research project, the vast majority of what gets published in scientific journals flies under the radar and...be part of the answer. Problems with written publications Online tools like ResearchGate, GoogleScholar...have time to keep up with all the research being published on our own topic. Only on occasion do we then ...   Video abstracts about research, especially published research, have grown in popularity over the last...this: “In terms of total view count and videos published, YouTube reported a total of 865,995 views for...online article downloads – especially if they are published in open access journals.   Check Out Addgene Videos...Facebook is continuing its growth, and while many publishers and researchers have Facebook pages, few share...

...not currently publish career outcomes for PhDs or postdocs. Having this information publicly available may... career development. Publishing Panel The Early Career Researchers in Publishing Panel brought in editors...variety of publications as well as young PIs and all gave advice on how to succeed in publishing in the current...university publication, improving your general writing skills will help you in your academic publishing goals...Path Panel and the Early Career Researchers in Publishing panel, focused on showing researchers that they...cognizant of this during my PhD. Submitting a publication doesn’t have to be like throwing it into a black...have any questions or concerns throughout the publishing process. The diversity panel - Equity and inclusion...

...Organizing a science conference for the public How does one organize a public scientific conference? As a member...DayCon is a one-day conference aimed at the general public that provides an accessible introduction to various...the communication gap between scientists and the public and help make science more transparent. Second,... their communication skills and engage with the public. The organization runs a wide variety of programs...conference-style experience that was accessible to the general public both in terms of cost and content level. Sponsorship...science outreach can be, both for scientists and the public. For students, these opportunities to improve our... alternative careers in science. In return, the public receives trustworthy, intelligible scientific resources...