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Nathan Ni, PhD | Aug 23, 2024 | 4 min read

Planning and designing figures—organizing, arranging, and visualizing data—is an important skill for scientists.

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Nathan Ni, PhD | Jul 17, 2024 | 4 min read

A scientist’s day-to-day routine in the laboratory provides many opportunities for developing their scientific communication skills.

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How to Present a Research Study’s Limitations

Nathan Ni, PhD | Jun 18, 2024 | 4 min read

All studies have imperfections, but how to present them without diminishing the value of the work can be tricky.

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How to Write a Good Results Section

Nathan Ni, PhD | May 27, 2024 | 5 min read

Effective results sections need to be much more than a list of data points given without context.

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Why Scientific Communication Matters for Manuscripts

Nathan Ni, PhD | Dec 12, 2023 | 4 min read

Scientists are beginning to recognize the importance of being able to effectively communicate their findings.

Researcher Sanctioned by PNAS for Not Sharing Alga

Catherine Offord | Jun 9, 2021 | 1 min read

Zhangfeng Hu will be unable to submit manuscripts for three years after having violated the journal’s policy about making study materials available to other scientists.

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Opinion: Please Help Reviewers by Embedding Your Figures

Ricardo Borges and Andrew G. Ewing | Jul 23, 2019 | 2 min read

The standard system of separating figures, tables, and legends from the text is unnecessary and laborious.

Shorter Titles Not Always Better for Citations

Jef Akst | Jun 22, 2016 | 1 min read

Researchers find that scientific papers with shorter titles accrue more citations only if they are very popular. For papers flying under the radar, longer titles fare better.