MDPI’s new commenting and endorsement system: the academic ‘likes’ are now available
Near the end of September, MDPI released a new functionality: the commenting and endorsement system. It allows researchers to endorse and recommend articles among each other – enabling ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ to infiltrate the academic sphere. Why an endorsement system? The commenting and endorsement system stems from the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), […]
More Info#PlantATreeForSDG Challenge: Kicking off the countdown to the 1st World Sustainability Week in style
27 September 2019 marked the kick-off to the countdown of the 1st World Sustainability Week (WSW). For this occasion, Matthias Burkhalter (who initiated the idea) and the two chairs of WSW, Professor Max Bergman and Professor Ed Constable, came together with Dr Heiner Vischer, President of Basel’s Grand Council, to plant a 20-year-old oak tree […]
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On May 15–17, 2019, the journal Molecules organized its second Symposium of Medicinal Chemistry “Facing Novel Challenges in Drug Discovery” in Barcelona. It was a three-day event, with more than 180 attendees from 36 countries. The symposium, chaired by Professor Diego Muñoz-Torrero and Professor F Javier Luque, brought together renowned experts from all around the […]
More InfoWrap-Up of the Fourth Basel Sustainability Forum: Health (BSF 2019), 3 June 2019, University of Basel
The Fourth Basel Sustainability Forum: Health (BSF 2019) took place in the Aula of the Kollegienhaus of the University of Basel, Switzerland, on 3 June 2019. The forum kicked off with opening statements by three young climate activists from the Klimastreikbewegung Basel, reminding everyone that there is no alternative to climate action but to act […]
More InfoDesigning a Sustainable Future – An Interview with Max Bergman
Prof. Dr. Max Bergman seeks answers to key questions on the challenges set out by the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). He is one of the Chairs of the 8th World Sustainability Forum (WSF) that will take place 14–19 September 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. The WSF is an event that “encourages participants to go beyond […]
More InfoDecoding Genomes of Small Species Using a Reduced Amount of DNA and Less Time
This is thanks to a new sequencing workflow presented in a recently published paper in Genes which removes some steps from traditional sequencing, and this results to a smaller loss of DNA. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute (University of Cambridge), and Pacific Biosciences have read the whole genetic code of a single tiny mosquito […]
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And as such, my first first-author paper (a review) is published! Functional Characteristics and Regulated Expression of Alternatively Spliced Tissue Factor: An Update mdpi.com/1273888 This review is part of a special issue on tissue factor in malignancy.
Two Different Views for Generalized Rough Sets with Applications mdpi.com/1273538 ##mdpimathematics عبر @MathematicsMDPI
tl;dr: College athletic success doesn't improve donations or applicant quality. And yet people will go on lying that it does. The Impact of College Athletic Success on Donations and Applicant Quality mdpi.com/2227-7072/7/2/… pic.twitter.com/NcPeKeJi45
CALL FOR PAPERS: You are invited to submit a paper to the Special Issue of #Sustainability on “Tourism Marketing and Sustainability in Challenging Times", edited by Dr. Heather Skinner @CorfuHeather and @NicholasCatahan via mdpi.com/si/48963 twitter.com/CorfuHeather/s…
I've been studying reasoning in young and old for almost 30 years. I'm aghast at how many psychologists suddenly suggest critical thinking is about "agreeing with experts" and not about "evaluating" the evidence. Do not perpetuate this fallacy. 👇 mdpi.com/2079-3200/9/2/…
I was asked to edit a volume on urban behavioral adaptations (i would ask to add plastic responses as well). Request from journal 'Animals' (open access). I was surprised by the IF: mdpi.com/journal/animals anyone keen on submitting for some such?
Pathogens, Vol. 10, Pages 1120: Treatment of Human Babesiosis: Then and Now dlvr.it/S7j1R7 @Pathogens_MDPI
Intravenous iron in non-hospitalized settings. A feasible option in accord with EMA recommendations. bit.ly/3kgimNJ
"#Remote #Sensing : #Soil #Salinity #Inversion in #Coastal #Corn #Planting #Areas by the #Satellite-#UAV-#Ground #Integration #Approach" doi.org/10.3390/rs1316… mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/1…
Check out this review of the relationship between neuroimaging and cognitive dysfunction in #MS patients. mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/3… pic.twitter.com/rofXigi94l
🔥✔Early-Bird #Discount Offers_4️⃣0️⃣% We would like to invite u to contribute a #review or #research article to our #Special Issue, with 40% #discount for #submissions before 30 Sept, & 25% discount for submissions before 31 Oct 2021 ✔mdpi.com/journal/agrono… @Agronomy_Mdpi pic.twitter.com/len09C04W7
Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD): A Current Perspective #CurePF #PFWarriors bit.ly/3zg2Rtl Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are a large and diverse group of rare and chronic respiratory disorders, with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) being the
New paper from the Geoffroy lab shows that aged cortical neurons demonstrate reduced neurite growth and impaired mitochondrial function, which may affect recovery after #SCI #aging #mitochondria mdpi.com/2073-4409/10/7…
New functions in morphomap to study asymmetry in long bones! Here our paper mdpi.com/1273202 published on @Symmetry_MDPI! R code and data available at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… We provide three strategies to map differences in the distribution of cortical thickness pic.twitter.com/9XEB2F5dJM
Es un enorme placer compartir el paper que acabo de publicar junto a mi compañera Pilar Vicente sobre #fakenews y las agencias de verificación de UK y de España en @MDPIOpenAccess 👉🏻Podéis leerlo aquí: bit.ly/39rLnzT #FactCheck #Factcheckers #disinformation