The Visualise Your Thesis competition encourages graduate students to develop communication skills and gives them an outlet for exposing their research in a succinct and engaging way. Visualise Your Thesis is a competition where graduate students create 60-second presentations of their thesis using a variety of creative methods from stop-motion films to animations. The objective…

A case study of Yosuke Tanigawa Yosuke Tanigawa and his colleagues at Stanford University have used NIH Figshare to share supplementary data relating to a recent publication  in  PLoS  Genetics (1)  and  grouped  it  into  a  collection (2). Because PLoS uses Figshare to store supplementary material from its  publications  and  this  research  was  funded  by…

A case study of Dr. Alan Remaley and Maureen Sampson Dr. Alan Remaley, Director of the Immunoassay and Special Chemistry section in the Department of Laboratory Medicine of the Clinical Center and Section Chief of the Lipoprotein Metabolism laboratory in the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and…