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European Association of Science Editors NEW 2014 guidelines on writing scientific papers, available in 20 languages.
English Communication for Scientists
It is a brief guide on how to communicate more effectively in English, no matter how much previous experience you have, from Nature's Scitable.
Science Careers blog
Science Careers blog on "Peer Review Guide" for early career researchers
Beginnings: Writing your first science paper
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published at Soapbox Science Nature Blog, 27 Jul 2012
Beginnings: How to write your first grant proposal
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published at Soapbox Science Nature Blog, 31 Jul 2012
A bank of phrases
... to help you with tasks such as:
- establish the importance of the topic
- highlight a problem in the field
- highlight a controversy
- highlight a knowledge gap
- focus, aim, argument...
The level of zoom you're at when copying images from a PDF to Powerpoint has a huge effect on the resolution of the output images
The effect of PDF copy resolution
In Adobe Acrobat, when using the "snapshot" tool under the "tools" menu, be sure that you have zoomed in adequately to capture the needed resolution for the ppt slide. It's possible to use the select tool, or you can simply "copy" from the "edit" menu. Click here for an illustration of the difference that zoom level can have on images pasted into Powerpoint slides.
Thanks to Alon Goren for sharing this tip!
Alon Goren, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow in Bernstein and Regev's groups at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard MGH Pathology, Harvard Medical School (http://www.broadinstitute.org/)
Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation
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Thomas C Erren, Philip E Bourne
PLOS Computational Biology:
Published 25 May 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030102
News flash
Missing link in epigenetics could explain conundrum of disease inheritance
08-07-2016 - All News
The process by which a mother’s diet during pregnancy can permanently affect her offspring’s attributes, such as weight, could be strongly influenced by genetic variation in an unexpected part of...
Epigenetic switch for obesity
08-02-2016 - All News
Obesity can sometimes be shut down It is well known that a predisposition to adiposity lies in our genes. A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology...
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