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Greetings again from Texas, where the crape myrtle trees are blooming this time of year. Crape myrtles grow well in the area where I live. I enjoy seeing their clouds …

Greetings from Qatar, where I have a layover between flights home from Bangladesh. While in Bangladesh for the AuthorAID workshop that just ended, I received welcome news: As hoped, AuthorAID is …

Greetings from Bangladesh, where an AuthorAID workshop will begin tomorrow (Sunday). I arrived a few days early, in order to give a session at an INASP country coordinators’ meeting. As …

Greetings again. I’m now back from the Council of Science Editors (CSE) annual meeting. The meeting was in Pittsburgh, a beautiful US city with rivers and hills. The meeting …

Greetings from Pittsburgh, where I’m attending the annual meeting of the Council of Science Editors (CSE). In my next blog post, I hope to tell you about this meeting. Now, …

Greetings again. If you’ve looked at the AuthorAID Resource Library very recently, perhaps you’ve noticed that it now contains PowerPoint presentations in French. These are translations of presentations given …

On Friday, four of us who work with AuthorAID had a “meeting” by Skype. Three of the participants were in England, and I was in the United States. For …

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 …