New Guidelines for the EMP Blog: Republishing Responsibly with Creative Commons Licenses
We are pleased to announce the launch of new republishing guidelines for the EMP Blog based on Creative Commons licenses …
How to Disclose the Use of AI in Your Research Paper
A recent Nature survey of 5,000 researchers worldwide found that opinions on the acceptable use of generative AI in manuscript preparation remain deeply divided…
A 55-year-old male …
Which do you think is correct; ‘a 55-year-old male‘ or ’a 55-year-old man‘? …
What makes an author?
What do you think the Guinness record is for most authors on a single peer-reviewed academic paper? …
Degrees Celsius
Which is correct; 37 °C or 37 ℃? They look exactly the same, you might say …
To biopsy or not to biopsy
Which of the following do you think is correct?
(a) A biopsy of the lesion was performed.
(b) The lesion was biopsied. …
Medical spellcheckers
Modern word processing software programs such as Microsoft Word have powerful built-in spellchecking features. Adding a medical dictionary to the spellchecker can dramatically increase spelling accuracy …
Comparing lymphocytes and patients
What is wrong with this sentence?
“The lymphocytes of treated patients were larger than untreated patients.” …