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There is a certain ritual to returning home from a scientific conference. Or am I the only one with a post-conference ritual? The suitcase is usually a little heavier than when I left. A few vendor giveaways have somehow found their way into my bag. There is probably a
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Let's sit back and think about what a preprint can really be for. A scientific paper is an act (and arguably an art) of compression. Sometimes, a few paragraphs of a methods may represent months spent ordering materials, optimizing protocols, growing organisms, collecting samples, troubleshooting equipment, and repeating
Perspectives & Opinions
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of traveling to Costa Rica to teach a module for a study abroad program. We hiked to spectacular places, practiced scientific methods in the field, and studied an ecosystem whose complexity was immediately visible but never fully graspable. For a brief period,