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As she closes the door on her time in academia, a neuroscientist faces unexpected grief.

The natural history of the model fern Ceratopteris richardii provides opportunities for unique studies and makes it an important system to include in comparative work.

It is important that any strategy that seeks to move towards gender parity in science and medicine includes actions to address male advantage and overrepresentation as well as female disadvantage and underrepresentation.

Research on human sleep and circadian physiology exhibits a bias towards male subjects, creating a sex data gap which holds potential real-world impact and requires concerted effort to close.

The gender gap in publication productivity has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, with potential implications for the careers of women working in research.

Peer reviewing helped a graduate student to finally gain a sense of belonging within the research community.

The coquí frog is of interest to researchers in fields as diverse as development biology, social behavior and the biology of invasive species.

A healthcare center widely sharing its internal guidelines on how to treat COVID-19 patients “just wasn’t done.” As the pandemic raged at a Boston hospital, the next generation of clinical leaders pushed for change.

A researcher should only be an author on a paper if they have contributed to it in a substantive way.

The creation of synthetic cells and organelles will open doors to new collaborative and funding opportunities.