Storytelling for Science

I wanted to know more about DAGs ( directed acyclic graphs ) and how they help people that design experiments account for confounders and other nuisances. This is a lot to do with counterintuitive logic and the many mistakes that observational clinical trials still suffer from. It seemed obvious to me that someone that taught themselves computing and code, who could explain this well and clearly to someone like me, who hates computing, could do so for everybody. Hence, my first guest post... ladies and gents, by Francisco Amaral .      Why is my internet out?   Hypothesis : it's my (internet service provider) ISP's fault. Let's call ISP; they agree, it's their fault. There was an equipment failure on their end that caused connections to and from my router to fail because a certain machine was not working.   Here, we have a simple causal relation — it is physically impossible for data to be transferred through machines that are not

I started the year teaching... I had never taught part of an online workshop before. I attended many and may even have thought about it, but I wasn't sure I had anything new to say. It turns out, I kind of did.  I focused on how to best write the methods section of a research paper in the life sciences. To some people, this is the easiest section to write because it does not involve much “story”, it is instead a description of all the steps taken that led to the study’s findings.  A clear methods section impacts editorial evaluation and readers’ understanding. Transparency creates trust and is the key to ensuring the credibility of the research. Reproducibility relies on detail, so never  methods should never be summarized or abbreviate d without giving full details in a discoverable supplemental section. I learned a lot in the last 3 years. Regarding writing, publishing, and science communication. But there are concepts that researchers still have not fully adopted, either by lac

It is us! We are supporting others because we care about open access! OASPA is a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship. Its varied membership provides a proven venue for productive collaboration. Open access stakeholders include not only scholar-led and professional publishers of books and journals, but also infrastructure and other services. I believe that authors and other content providers, such as graphic designers and independent consultants, should be informed about the organizations that influence policy-making in their area of expertise. Although my scientific publications have significantly declined in volume (but more are a-coming...), I work with and for authors, helping them navigate their publication journey, be it through help with writing, research design, or publication. It is good to have the help and support of OASPA and Reviewer Credits, and to have learnt so much with Bio-Protocol and Cactus Communications . Soon it will be Love Me