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#scidata16: Open data should be easy

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#scidata16: Open data should be easy

On the morning of October 26, 2016, a group of scientists convened in London to discuss the state of open data. The third Publishing Better Science through Better Data conference kicked off with morning tea, international introductions, and furious scribing from @roystoncartoons. The premise was simple: “Today is all about being open”, said conference chair Iain Hrynaszkiewicz. We settled in to learn the advantages of data sharing at both the individual level and for the scientific community at large.  Read more

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Uncertain Airspace: Changing career paths is disorienting and exhilarating

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Uncertain Airspace: Changing career paths is disorienting and exhilarating

Sometimes I ask people, “if you weren’t studying biology, what would you do?”  … Read more

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Back to the thesis

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Last week, Nature visited a few prominent scientists to take them back to their theses.  Read more

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A day in the life of a Scientific Reports assistant production editor

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A day in the life of a Scientific Reports assistant production editor

I’ve worked as an assistant production editor for Scientific Reports for almost a year now, and one thing I should mention is that Scientific Reports is an unusual journal. We’re completely open access (which means anyone can access and re-use the research we publish), and we publish loads of research in a rapid timeframe. Ensuring papers are published within the shortest possible time following acceptance is the key driver and focus of the work I complete on a daily basis in the production team.  Read more

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Study system envy

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Study system envy

Guest contributor Carolyn Beans  … Read more

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Most read on the Naturejobs blog: August 2014

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Most read on the Naturejobs blog: August 2014

August has been a busy month for the Naturejobs team, especially as the Naturejobs Career Expo is coming up on September 19th in London (we hope to see many of you there). But we’ve still had plenty of time to bring you some great posts on the Naturejobs blog, and we wanted to share your 10 favourite posts from August.  Read more

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Top Tips on writing your PhD thesis

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Top Tips on writing your PhD thesis

We’re trying something new: crowd-sourced #TopTips, garnered from the Naturejobs Twitter and Facebook pages. In this first one, we’re looking at how to best to tackle the daunting task of writing a PhD thesis. It’s not something you worry about when you start: you’ve got at least three years to go, so why bother? Well, those years will go by in a flash, so it’s worth being prepared.  Read more

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