Category " Scientific Writing"

Scientific Writing in Shanghai

This spring Rick and Brian took Science Craft's workshop on Scientific Writing to China, working together with students at the CAS-MPG (China Academy of Sciences – Max Planck Society) Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai. 18 students took part in the workshop, which was held over 5 days in March. This workshop provided new and unique challenges for Science Craft. In addition...


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Science Craft: Workshops that Work

As the summer draws to a close, we thought this would be a good time for an update on what we've been up to at Science Craft. This summer, our Scientific Writing workshops have benefited from guest lectures by Andy Hufton (editor of Molecular Systems Biology) and Adam Wilkins (former editor-in-chief of Bioessays and currently editor at Genetics) each providing an editor's behind-the-scenes perspective...


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Science’s Lingua Franca is a Patchwork

The dominance of English in science can obscure the contribution of other languages to modern scientific terminology. At first sight it may seem that German has made only a minor contribution, cropping up only in niche areas of biology (e.g. the morphological Bauplan or the Dauer larva of worm genetics). So it’s striking that a word as familiar as "genome" owes its origin to the German language....


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