A compelling piece in the Economist argues that social media are returning news to the “more vibrant, freewheeling, and discursive ways of the pre-industrial era” and that newspapers will prove to have been a historical aberration. The same, I think, will be true of scientific journals. […]
There are a few ways to improve health reporting. One is doing as some science commentators do: lumping all journalists together in a totally “unscientific” way sniping and sneering to their pals on the blogosphere. Or you can explain how to cover medical research by offering advice about how to approach a story that your […]
While teaching two courses on “getting published” in Dhaka I had a marvellous opportunity to gather insights into why researchers from a low income country have problems writing and getting published. Most of the researchers were juniors from ICDDR, B (formerly the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh), a well established and highly successful […]