A huge Congratulations! to our very own Dr. Kavin Nunez who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Mechanisms of cue-induced...

The Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science at Brown University recently published a Community Spotlight on our very...

Check out NSGP Graduate Student Tariq Brown's Poster at the 2021 Virtual Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting! P307.05 -...

At a recent Carney Methods Meet-up (https://www.brown.edu/carney/news-events/carney-methods-meetups), hosted by the Scientific Director...

Writing always takes me longer that I think it will. It doesn't matter what I'm writing: manuscripts, grants, emails, paper reviews,...

My favorite book is "Writing Science in Plain English" by Anne E. Greene. I keep it close at hand when I'm editing because it explains...

In which order should you start writing? In all honesty, if you're motivated to write a particular section, start there and go go go....

One of the hardest things about writing is getting the motivation to start, and then staying motivated and focused through the process....

Storyboarding is essentially sketching out scenes from a story and putting them in the right order when developing a video, animation or...

Science is performed by people and all people have biases. Scientific papers by women and people of color are undercited compared to...

Here are some writing exercises that you can do to practice some of your style and grammar skills. Many of them are directly from...

I like clean looking figures that show all the raw data, are big enough that you can read without zooming in a million times, are aligned...

The main rule in science writing is to ensure your prose is clear and concise so your audience understands the points you are trying to...

Plagiarism is taking someone's else's words or work and representing it as your own. It is way more common that you think and sometimes...

The purpose of an detailed outline (something akin to an annotated bibliography) is to provide the reader with a summary and evaluation...

To me, the hardest part of writing a manuscript is staring at the blank page on my computer. Here are a few tips for how to avoid staring...

The beauty of science writing is that the format is very predictable. When writing a manuscript here are the sections: Title Authors and...

In order to write an effective scientific paper, it really helps if you've had some practice reading and reviewing scientific papers....

Writing is a process, and all science manuscripts go through many, many, many versions before they are published. Sometimes it's so many...

The Kaun Lab enjoys a morning picking apples at Barden Family Orchard in November 2021! The best place to get great pictures of flies on...