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Feb 12, 2020 9 tweets 5 min read
Continuing with the #womeninScience #WomenInScienceDay

Here are some interesting links from @CellPressNews

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Joan Steitz speaks with Cell editor Lara Szewczak about how she came to be an advocate for women in science.

@SteitzLab

(1/n) This one celebrates young and diverse scientists and the mentorship that has guided them. Their stories come from different corners of the world but are tied together by a common thread of tenacity and perseverance.

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@Cell_Metabolism

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Nov 6, 2019 17 tweets 5 min read
I have been an editor for 6 months now and read about a hundred papers, and this is what I have learnt so far. As an author myself and a publisher of journals where I talked to external editors all the time, here is what we wish we could tell authors, in no particular order(1/n) 1. Write your paper like you are telling a story. Build up and find the connection from Fig 1 to 2 to 3, & explain the rationale behind each experiment or idea, what the results were, and how it contributes to the main message of the paper. (2/n)