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This week we are launching a brand new look for Authorea and a couple of exciting new features aimed at making scientific research more interactive. Since the very beginning of Authorea, we have been striving to make collaborative scientific writing as easy as possible. But in addition to WRITING, we are also creating a space for new ways of READING science, and EXECUTING it. For example, if you are a scientist, chances are that you do a lot of data analysis and you might want to visualize and provide access to your data in some FUN, NEW, INTERACTIVE, MORE MEANINGFUL, DATA-DRIVEN ways, rather than the usual static, data-less plot. There are many ways to create this kind of interactive plots. In this short blog post we will look at two of them.

When you're reinventing the research article you will continually need to be reinventing yourself. That's what we've been doing over the last few months, reinventing one of our core features -- our editor.Today, we're happy to announce that we are inviting researchers to a private test of our new editor. We created a new editor because we listened to our users, and we're going to make it even better by listening to our users once again. If you're interested in joining our private beta please send us an email at hi@authorea.com. We will be limiting our trial to 100 users and will be selecting researchers from a diverse set of backgrounds.We're very excited to share what we're working on with our users. Here's to a better research writing experience -- here's to the future. 

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INTRODUCTION - Knowledge transfer is one of the key aspects of understanding the world, as we pass on learnings from one generation to the other. - International development is one of the critical sectors that needs major improvement in the way that we create, share, and apply knowledge. - This is because international development, encapsulates our efforts to improve the basic living conditions and opportunities of marginalized and underserved people around the world.

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Lab 6 instructed us to design a digital to analog converter in order to generate a square wave which would drive a speaker connected to the supplied FPGA. We also needed to be able to set the amplitude of the generated signal using the DIP switches present. This lab was very useful to show the basic theory behind digital to analog converters which need to turn digital values into actual signals. Also, this square wave generator is very useful in creating complicated audio signals which are composed of square waves of varying frequency.

Interactive figures in Authorea documentsAuthorea enables embedding of interactive, dynamic, data-driven figures directly into articles. These can be diagrams from external services like CartoDB or diagrams from a javascript library like d3.js, flotchart, or bokeh.To insert an interactive figure, click Insert Interactive Figure  from the toolbar and select the HTML file that you wish to add to your document. 

Peer review is arguably necessary for effective communication amongst researchers.  Authors, editors, and the public rely on peer review to ensure a first measure of trust in scientific communication.  While peer review is considered to be integral in scholarly communication by most, its shortcomings are becoming evident. Former editor of JAMA and NEJM Drummond Rennie once said, "if peer review was a drug it would never be allowed onto the market." Is this true? Does peer review, as it is done today, cause more harm than good?

What does being a scientist mean to you?To me, science is about thinking rationally, solving problems and enjoying learning new things about the universe. People who are not professional scientists can also be scientists. This is the idea behind "citizen science" projects: https://www.zooniverse.org. You, too, can be a scientist, even if it’s only for an hour at a time!  Can you summarize the main focus of your research and what drew you to that field of study/work?I use numerical simulations to model how stars like our sun formed. When I was a physics graduate student I was interested in working on some kind of computational modeling. It turns out there are a lot of really interesting complex problems in astrophysics that you can only study with large computers. The study of star formation has a lot of different physics in it: gravity, magnetic fields, turbulence, and radiation. These interact in nonlinear and sometimes unexpected ways, which make star formation a fun thing to model. I also use the simulations to make cool movie

Are you comparing Paperpile to other reference managers?Choosing the right reference manager for your scholarly documents is very important. Paperpile is a modern reference and PDF management system. Authorea is a word processor with an integrated reference management system. Paperpile is a fantastic tool that's useful in combination with Google Docs and Microsoft Word, while Authorea is itself a word processor that competes with Google Docs and Word.Authorea's reference management system is seamlessly integrate inside the word processor so that you don't even have to worry about managing references anymore. In this article, we list a few key comparison points that show how Paperpile and Authorea are different.

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[] _Social_ is probably the last word that people who know me well (Hi Mom!) would use to describe me. But being one of those pesky _millenials_, I was born too late to ever get to know the (academic) Dark Ages intimately, i.e. the pre-internet past. That, and my abysmal high school diploma, which made sure that no university would accept me for studies in the two years after finishing school – afforded me lots of spare time for _professional social networking/instagramming_, or _blogging_ as it was called then. So I came, somewhat naturally, from blogging about my daily routines to writing about my adventures in the lab, studying and doing science. At some point in ~2008 this developed into the idea of doing a joint science blog with Philipp, then my fellow student of biology, now my co-conspirator on _openSNP_. Being good students we came up with the blog’s title, _Beerology_, after a couple of those I assume (nope, the pun doesn’t really work better in German). Writing about our studies, the latest scientific papers we had read and about the political changes in European Academia not only helped in learning about other perspectives through comments, but also in more tangible scientific experiences. Besides regularly meeting up with other blogging scientists, it also helped in getting around a bit, like like my trip to the _Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings_ in 2010. Many of the friendships formed on these trips are good and lasting. In the best case allowing me to Erdős-esk crash on couches around the globe, re-visiting friends wherever the academic life brings me to. This already means the world if you’ve been on the research-travel-circuit for long enough. However, it probably won't convince everyone of the benefits of social media. Especially not if you're dealing with people who for example complain about things like _professional instagramming_. So let’s instead turn to the metrics that scientists care about: getting publications out. According to Google Scholar I’ve (co-)published 12 manuscripts since 2012. Why is this relevant in the context of discussing the benefits of Social Media for your research? Well, just looking through these I find that OVER 40% OF MY PUBLICATIONS WERE ONLY EVER WRITTEN IN THAT FORM THANKS TO SOCIAL MEDIA. My Master’s degree in Ecology & Evolution nicely explains my work on plants/fungi/fish/rabbit poop (yes, that’s a thing). But my work on bioethics and personal genomics is not a natural fit to my professional education, to say the least. And this is because those were developed completely independently, to a good extent even while I was still finishing up said degree. First, there are the two publications on family-wide personal genomics and crowdsourced personal genomics. These go back to Philipp and me finding the work by @manuelcorpas on these topics more or less accidentally on Twitter & Reddit. Some tweets & emails back-and-forth later I was not only sitting on a plane to the UK to meet in person & discuss how to improve our project _openSNP_, but it also led to two very cool papers, with one of them even being the second-most influential paper in that journal for that year. In a similar way the collaborations with @EffyVayena go back to Twitter as far as I can tell. Besides working on participant-led research, we also did a large survey amongst the users of _openSNP_, collecting very useful data on our cohort, which is being analyzed and written up right now. It’s hard to overstate how useful these connections have been and still are, especially given that I was still early in my career at the time of embarking on those collaborations. Usually you don’t easily get the opportunity to form international collaborations as a Master’s student. But thanks to social media you might as well, especially if you want to connect with people outside your own narrow research field. Because if it was not for social media, I probably would not have been doing some social science. So the TL;DR is: SOCIAL MEDIA ISN’T ONLY GREAT TO FIND PEOPLE TO TALK SCIENCE TO, BUT ALSO TO FIND PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU CAN ACTUALLY DO SCIENCE.

The search for extrasolar planets (EXOPLANETS) is one of the most rapidly expanding fields in astrophysics. Thanks to recent space-based efforts the number of detected planets in extrasolar stellar systems has increased dramatically, and more than 900 objects have been identified as of today, see e.g. http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/. With candidates identified in the so-called habitable zone (HZ)[1] the question of extraterrestrial life becomes very actual. Here we discuss ideas that could lead to infer the presence (or the past existence) of an extraterrestrial civilization by the detection of artifacts in orbit around the host planet. [1] The theoretical band around a star where a planet could orbit and host liquid water

Thomas Edison has an impressive 2,332 worldwide patents. Some of his well-known inventions include the phonograph, motion pictures, and the magnetic iron ore separator. After the success of his first major invention, the quadruplex telegraph, Edison wanted to build his own laboratory so that he could continue to innovate. In 1875, he purchased around 34 acres in Raritan Township, NJ and built the "Invention Factory". By Spring 1876, the Invention Factory consisted of a main laboratory, ancillary buildings, a carpenters’ shop, carbon shed, and blacksmith shop. His first breakthrough at the Invention Factory, the phonograph, produced the first voice recording (“Mary Had a Little Lamb”) and earned Edison the title, “The Wizard of Menlo Park”.

Hello, welcome to Authorea! My name is Alberto and I wrote this short document to get you acquainted with Authorea. I am an Astronomerand Computer Scientist by training (I was a Postdoc at the Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics until 1 year ago) and with the help of some colleagues, I created Authorea - a collaborative writing platform for science. I received today a request for using Authorea for documents porduced by the THIRTY METER TELESCOPE TIME-DOMAIN SCIENCE DEFINITION TEAM. You should have received an email notification to open this article. How does it work? Double click anywhere on the text to start writing. In addition to simple text you can also add text formatted in BOLDFACE, _italic_, and yes, math in LaTeX too: E = mc²! Add images by drag’n’drop or click on the “Insert Figure” button.

1 The Problem  We took on Design Challenge #1 to analyze the problem of identifying optimal foster families using relevant literature to guide our approach.2 Our AssumptionsWe defined a successful placement to be a discharge reason of any of the four possible permanency outcomes. This limited us to a sample size of 6,008 cases in Manhattan from 2015_AFCARS_Foster_Data, 1,454 of which resulted in a permanency outcome. Our chosen model parameters are also based on the most important family and child characteristics in literature.3 Our ApproachAfter exploring, cleaning, and clustering the data into intuitive groups, we created a logistic regression model that could predict the probability of a permanency outcome.

THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND DEATH OF MASSIVE STARS Overview of the material that will be covered at the “Look & Listen” School 2014 Abstract We will first cover some basic principles of stellar evolution, with a particular emphasis on the physics of massive stars. Then we will focus on the phenomena that are currently believed to prominently influence the life of massive stars and determine the conditions at the pre-SN stage. Informed by the most recent observational results, we will also focus on some unsolved problems in stellar physics and how they could impact the death of massive stars and their stellar remnants. Schedule 1. Tuesday 14 Jan - Principles of stellar evolution (20+10) - Massive Stars evolution: Main Sequence and He-Burning (20+10) - Massive Stars evolution: Late evolutionary stages (20+10) 2. Thursday 16 Jan - Stellar Rotation (20+10) - Stellar Rotation and Magnetic Fields (20+10) - Mass loss (20+10) 3. Friday 17 Jan - Massive Binary Stars (20+10) - Very Massive Stars (20+10) - Progenitors of NS/BH, SNe, PISNe, GRBs (20+10)