Are Scientists improvising more?

Continuing the evolution of Science writing theme, this post looks at use/utilize and its implications. #sciencewriting #utilize

Is Science becoming more novel?

Scientific papers describe new research findings. Yet, it seems that a greater proportion of papers feel it is necessary to point that out. Why is that?

Editing for impact #6 – Dealing with the Waffle-monster [addressing common problems]

We’ve all been there – shared a first draft with supervisors or co-authors and it has come back covered in … More

Editing for impact #5 – Is it time to stop using “A study by Author et al.,…”?

Does it matter who wrote the work that you are citing? Usually it isn’t as important about what that study found. So… should you ever say “A study by author et al.,”?

P = 0.051… How to describe results that are not significant

Although your p value may not have reached the statistical significance threshold it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t share the observations. However, it does mean that you need to be careful in how you write about the data. This post explains options you could take.