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Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences.

Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.

The views of peers are important when applying for a faculty position, but so are research plans and being a good 'fit'.

Funding agencies use many different criteria and peer review strategies to assess grant proposals.

Editors, reviewers and authors share their experiences of consultative peer review at eLife.

Scientific abstracts have become less readable over the past 130 years, in part because recent texts include more general scientific jargon than older texts.

Responsible agricultural practices provide a useful lens through which to consider the lives and careers of researchers.

Creativity in science requires the ability to recall information and data, and will suffer if we rely too much on technology to remember things for us.

An over-emphasis on novelty is having detrimental effects on science.

The integration of structural data from different imaging scales requires the development of standards and tools for representing the segmentation and transformation of data, and for the annotation of biological structures.