On Pre-Prints, Publishing and Peer Review
Hallo readers, it’s James here again to announce the release of another new manuscript written by the FEZ group! This one is something we’ve been wo... Read more.
Group of the Month: Placozoa
They may look a bit like bacteria, but Placozoans are actually animals! These microscopic blobs might, in fact, be key to understanding our own deep evolutionar... Read more.
Writing a Review: Introducing Your Field
A few weeks ago, the FEZ group produced another new paper, this time in Evolutionary Applicat... Read more.
The measure of our reach: understanding evolution when our models break down.
Last week I was lucky enough to have another paper come out, this time in BMC Bioinformatics: “nRCFV: a new, dataset-size-independent metric to quantify compo... Read more.
Tardigrades, Public Databases and Science From Your Settee
Last week, as part of a special issue of Zoologica Scripta, I started the year with my first paper – and my first solo effort! “The Wealth of Shared... Read more.
Advent Calendar Day 16: The March To Land
For the 16th day of our Advent Calendar, I’d like to talk about a pre-print. I thought the results were incredibly exciting and, if the article passes peer re... Read more.
FEZ Advent Calendar Day 10: Ten Tardis Tunning
On the 10th Day of Advent, we open the door on our calendar to a paper that brought me more than a little bit of joy to read earlier this year, Yoshida et al’... Read more.
Fez Advent Calendar 2022: Day 6, a stocking-filler of a phylogenetic review
For the 6th day of our Journal Review Advent Calendar, I wanted to present Jesus Lozano-Fernandez’s brilliant “A Practical Guide to Design and Assess a Phyl... Read more.
Group of the month: Tardigrades
Hallo again, and welcome to August’s entry in the FEZ blog’s Group of the Month club! This time, we’ll be exploring a charismatic wonder of the microscopi... Read more.
Crustacean Silk from under the Sea
Another paper involving a FEZ group member, this time about silk from a marine crustacean group! What can we learn from the history of the silk of the Tanaids, ... Read more.