A Treatise on Scientific Anxiety
Given the high-stress, competitive environment of higher education, many might consider “academia” and “anxiety” to be synonymous. But in fact, 12% of all Canadians experience an anxiety disorder in any...
The Indirect Costs of Research
[caption id="attachment_1362" align="alignright" width="300"] Image credit: Ruben Balderas.[/caption] Graduate students are just one cog in the academic research machine; a machine that must interlock a series of individual parts to...
Stress Caused by Male Experimenters is Not a Factor in Immunological Studies
[caption id="attachment_1146" align="alignright" width="400"] The Barbed Noose with the Mice. Paul Klee. The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1987. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.[/caption] When the initial report was...
Benchmarking IMMpress Magazine
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The Many Roads to Productivity
It’s Wednesday night. I’ve brought home a stack of papers to read, data from the day’s experiments to analyze, and an unfinished award application that is due Friday. Prioritizing my...
Space: An Immunological Frontier
Would you sign up for a one-way trip to colonize Mars? For infamy and certain damnation? Or perhaps you are driven by an altruistic desire to colonize the desolate Red...
Accepting the Scoop
In the previous issue of IMMPress, we looked at measures that graduate students can take to avoid being scooped: staying well-informed, carving out unique research niches, and prioritizing collaboration instead...
Open Access – Improving the Availability of Scientific Literature for All
As of January 1, 2013, CIHR-funded researchers will be required to make their peer-reviewed publications accessible at no cost within 12 months of publication – at the latest. The newly...
Cracks in the Foundation
How data fabrication, misrepresentation and irreproducibility are wasting research efforts and undermining our confidence in scientific literature [caption id="attachment_190" align="alignleft" width="175"] Box 1. Definitions of key terms used in the...
Great Expectations
A comparison of two high-impact immunology papers published 42 years apart [dropcap]In[/dropcap] the months leading up to my qualifying exam, I had the inexplicable desire to read every research paper...