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Foundational Skills in Life Sciences

Foundational Skills in Life Sciences

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Students and scholars in life sciences need to use many skills to survive and excel during scientific training, which involves listening, reading, writing, and speaking.
But I have seen many of them struggle in understanding and learning those skills.
I am a professor in the U.S., a tenured faculty member with MD, PhD degrees.
I will guide you through the skills, so that you will learn and improve successfully in your professional life.

Please visit my website for more information (https://synaptologica.com/), and send me emails with questions, comments or ideas (ideas@synaptologica.com).

© 2025 Foundational Skills in Life Sciences Ciencia Ciencias Biológicas
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  • 53. Minimum features of well-written abstracts

    53. Minimum features of well-written abstracts
    Jun 8 2025

    In today’s episode, we will learn which structural components will be minimally essential for an abstract, and which will be additionally necessary for a well-written abstract. These are the abstracts of primary research papers in life sciences, both in clinical- and basic-science fields.

    There are very many variations in the structures of published abstracts. Why do we want to discuss the above topic?

    This is because understanding the essential components of abstracts will help us anticipate key information and understand the content more effectively!
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    16 m
  • 52. Example of a well-written abstract (other than the one by Nobel Laureates)

    52. Example of a well-written abstract (other than the one by Nobel Laureates)
    May 6 2025

    Let’s talk about an excellent abstract that I read this week. It was so well written, and I was so excited to read it that I wanted to talk about it with you today. The beauty of it is that the first 3 structural components guide us through the authors’ intention and question very clearly. But there was also a little twist to the structure: we will talk about it, too.

    The abstract that we talked about today was from the following paper:

    • “A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging”
    • Benge & Scullin, Nature Human Behaviour, 2025
    • “Online ahead of print” (thus, no volume number or page numbers) as of the date of this episode upload.
    • PubMed link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40229575/
    • Journal link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02159-9

    We can read its abstract on either of the above websites.

    Unfortunately, the other parts of the paper are subscription-based. So, they are accessible, if you or your institutions have a subscription to the journal.


    This episode = mini-series: reading-32.

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    20 m
  • 51. Have you read an abstract that was not written well?

    51. Have you read an abstract that was not written well?
    Apr 20 2025

    My students selected a paper to read in a journal club. The abstract (and the rest of the paper) was not written well. The abstract gave us two precious lessons.

    • Lesson 1: Good structural organization will help the readers understand the content.
    • Lesson 2: Abstracts of peer-reviewed papers can be disorganized.

    I hope you learn them in this episode, too!


    This episode = mini-series: reading-31.

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    9 m
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