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Kam Arkinstall
Kam studied Physics at University of Oxford, graduating with a Masters in 2007. Since then she has worked for health and research charities, including Cancer Research UK. She worked as Blogs Manager for BioMed Central from October 2013 to September 2015.
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  • New report reveals growing confidence in open access quality - 18th August 2015
  • Reproducibility: what are we going to do about it? - 23rd July 2015
  • Get up, stand up – the risks of sedentary behavior - 19th June 2015

New report reveals growing confidence in open access quality

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18/08/2015

Research in progress blog

A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has revealed that a decreasing number of authors are concerned… Read more »

Reproducibility: what are we going to do about it?

Reproducible research

23/07/2015

Research in progress blog

In recent decades, the reproducibility of a shocking number of scientific studies has been called into question. What we’re going to do about the… Read more »

Get up, stand up – the risks of sedentary behavior

person sitting

19/06/2015

BMC Series blog

A systematic review published today in BMC Public Health suggests anxiety is linked sedentary behavior. This adds to a growing body of evidence which says we… Read more »

Dying for a cigarette: What research tells us about tobacco use

cigarettes

29/05/2015

On Health

Sunday May 31 is World No Tobacco Day, and so we thought we'd issue you with a challenge. Think you know about tobacco usage and smoking cessation? Our fiendish… Read more »

April blogs digest: leaving academia, genome editing, metrics, and more

Obesity, medicine, metrics

05/05/2015

Research in progress blog

Didn't get a chance to read all of April's blog posts? Here's the best of what you missed...

March blogs digest: Kings, peer review, women in science, and more

Richard III, MinION sequencer, Japan

02/04/2015

Research in progress blog

Didn't get a chance to read all of March's blog posts? Here's the best of what you missed...

Richard III: ancient DNA solves a 500-year-old mystery

King Richard III and Anne Neville

26/03/2015

On Biology

King Richard III of England is to be reburied today in Leicester Cathedral, after being discovered under a car park in the city in 2012. The discovery was only… Read more »

February blogs digest: Impact Factors, ‘three-parent’ babies, shisha, and more

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03/03/2015

Research in progress blog

Didn't get a chance to read all of February's blog posts? Here's the best of what you missed...

Mind the gap: open access and the public understanding of science

Open access - mind the gap

26/02/2015

Research in progress blog

A recent report in a series on ‘science and society’ from the Pew Research Center suggests scientists believe there’s a gap between public interest in and… Read more »

Diagnosing Ebola in Sierra Leone

Professor Goodfellow travelled to Sierra Leone after seeing harrowing coverage of the Ebola crisis.

18/02/2015

On Health

In a Q&A, part of a series courtesy of the Wellcome Trust blog, Professor Ian Goodfellow describes his experiences in an Ebola diagnostics facility in Sierra… Read more »

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