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Blog / Science and Ethics

July 6, 2017July 6, 2017 / Erika Van Goethem / 1

So let’s say, hypothetically, that your lab receives blood samples from a group of individuals to study genetic links with diabetes.  However, these samples would also provide important insights into…

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Blog / Avoiding the blank stare: workshop at UNC helps researchers communicate their work to the public

April 3, 2016 / Alissa Brown /

From graduate students to faculty members, scientific researchers generally receive training in writing technical documents. Usually these documents are intended to communicate findings to other scientists.

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Blog / New Perspectives on The Scientific Method

March 3, 2016March 2, 2016 / Tamara Vital /

The giant whiteboard outside our lab has a simple to do list: Plan the experiments to answer all the questions Be better This list is a joke, of course, but…

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Blog / Four Bad Graphs, and How to be a Better “Citizen Statistician”

February 22, 2016October 7, 2019 / Alissa Brown /

Statistics. Ugh. Why force-feed such a dreary topic to countless innocent students across the globe? Well, statistics is actually an outrageously important field of study. People make graphs to summarize…

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Blog / Traveling trees: how fast can they migrate to track climate change?

December 17, 2015February 11, 2016 / Alissa Brown /

Most readers are probably familiar with some of the implications of climate change: sea level rise; more frequent extreme weather events; habitat loss for arctic species. Other implications are equally…

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Blog / The Trouble with Reproducibility in Science

August 11, 2015March 1, 2016 / Nicole M. Baker /

As scientists, many of us have read a paper, been inspired by the glamorous data, carefully followed the methods section in order to replicate the results in our own hands,…

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