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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.

An approach based on cue phrases can be used to identify instances of disagreement in scientific articles and compare the level of disagreement in various disciplines.

Biofactoid is a tool that enables researchers to capture information about molecular interactions in a form that is both human-readable and machine-computable, thereby allowing this information to be integrated into public knowledge-bases and to be widely disseminated.

How a letter addressing the lack of women invited to speak at a conference in brain stimulation encouraged researchers to take action.