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Hello again. As you might have noticed, more and more manuscript editors have been registering as AuthorAID mentors. How can an editor help? Of course, editors can help ensure that …

Greetings once more. This weekend I went to Dallas (about 3 hours’ drive) for a regional meeting of the American Medical Writers Association. The meeting was titled “Becoming a Medical …

Greetings again. The Texas spring wildflowers have now arrived. Something else welcome has also arrived: the new (third) edition of the report On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible …

Greetings again. I’m back from Mexico. For the workshop there, I worked with an excellent translation team. I gave the workshop in English, and the main slides were projected in …

Greetings again. It is now spring break at Texas A&M University, where I teach. Therefore the students have no classes this week. Different students are spending spring break in different …

[Note: As mentioned last week, the AuthorAID workshop in Rwanda included a lecture by journalist Pius Sawa. Below is a guest post from Pius. It includes a link to advice …

Greetings from Rwanda, where an AuthorAID workshop on research writing just ended. The workshop was held at the National University of Rwanda on 23-26 February. This workshop addressed three main …

[Note: Greetings from Rwanda, where I’ve arrived for an AuthorAID workshop. This post is by Stuart Church, who oversees the design of the AuthorAID website. Stuart and a development …

Greetings from Chicago, where I’m attending the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Many people attend this meeting. This year about 5000 scientists …

A few days ago, the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the 2009 recipient of the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing. This award recognizes “authors whose reviews have synthesized …