A ciência e a religião têm um conflito histórico entre si. Mas será que elas não poderiam conviver pacificamente, pelo menos dentro de uma pessoa?
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O que é um data paper?
Recentemente, publicamos um data paper sobre morcegos, como comentado em um post no site do SintECO. Mas, afinal de contas, o que é um data paper?
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If you like someone’s work, don’t just cite them, write them!
We scientists are hard on ourselves. We obsessively check and recheck our data. We expose our nascent manuscripts to the keen scrutiny of co-authors, mentors, and anonymous peer review. Most of the time, the reviews are critical. Sometimes they are downright unkind. Ultimately, we hope, our revised manuscript pasts muster. Then we get to enjoy the scrutiny of a copy-editor and in the process discover typos that have survived, unscathed, through the gauntlet. Little wonder that on publication our feeling is mostly relief, rarely joy.
Why do we do it? As scientists, we constantly court criticism because it helps us to find our errors. I rarely read a review that is not in some way constructive, if only in the sense of “I need to communicate this better”. (1) And in any creative endeavor, discovering our failures, large and small, improves our work in…
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