Storytelling for Science

I've been a good reviewer, not given in to unwarranted comments on laguage, not given in to unjustified criticism, and always submitting my reports on time.  I think I deserve some gifts 😝 Peer reviewer recognition wouldn't go amiss.  Here are some thoughts on how to make the academic reviewers in your life a bit happier, relaxed, and less prone to behaving like Reviewer 2 . 1. Institutions should allocate time for peer review within their faculty appointments The time it takes to do a good job with a peer review is often underestimated. ⏳ Given that this work is not financially compensated, at least time for it should be granted as part of the expected commitment to the scholarly community. 2. Graduate courses could teach peer review, much like they teach statistics There are techniques, concepts, and skills required to perform peer review. It is important t

Literally, I'm not being romantic or lyrical here. Patients' gender-related characteristics may partly explain traditional sex differences in risk factors for cardiovascular disease (such as for acute coronary syndrome ). The graph below shows that sex and gender are partly independent (which means, not totally separate but also not the same thing). Additionally, individuals with high feminine gender scores were twice as likely to be re-admitted to hospital and to experience worse prognoses following discharge after heart attack. Adapted from Pelletier, Roxanne PhD; Ditto, Blaine PhD; Pilote, Louise MD, MPH, PhD.  A Composite Measure of Gender and Its Association With Risk Factors in Patients With Premature Acute Coronary Syndrome. Psychosomatic Medicine 77(5):p 517-526, June 2015. DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000186 Now, I'm not saying that men act all tough in the presence of male doctors... but they do. Nor am I saying that birthing mothers feel more at ease to scre