Author: tjvision

A snapshot of life on the savannah

Our latest featured data package is from Alexandra Swanson and colleagues at the Snapshot Serengeti project, and accompanies their peer-reviewed article in Scientific Data.  It provides a unique resource for studying the one of the world’s most extraordinary mammal assemblages and also for studies of computer vision and machine learning. In addition, data from Snapshot Serengeti is already being used in biology and computer science classrooms to enable […]

Introducing our new Executive Director Meredith Morovati

We are delighted to introduce Meredith to the Dryad community. She assumed the role of Executive Director in late 2014, and now that she has had a few months to settle in, we thought this would be a good time to check in with her and and hear about her plans for the organization

Four newly sponsored journals from Nordic Society Oikos

We are delighted to announce the integration of four new journals: Ecography, Journal of Avian Biology, Nordic Journal of Botany, and Oikos. The Nordic Society Oikos, which supports scientific research in ecology and related disciplines and to stimulate and enhance communication between stakeholders in ecological research in the Nordic countries and beyond, owns these journals, and is generously […]

Applications open for Dryad Executive Director

Dryad is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic Executive Director, ideally with experience in scientific or biomedical research, librarianship, or publishing, to oversee development and operation of the organisation during a period of rapid growth and transformation. The role reports to the Board of Directors. Externally, the postholder will be responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, […]

Tamiflu, Relenza, and influenza: what the data do (or don’t) tell us

The following is a guest post from Tom Jefferson of The Cochrane Collaboration, Peter Doshi of the University of Maryland and Carl Heneghan from the University of Oxford. We asked them to tell the story behind their recent Cochrane systematic review [1] and dataset in Dryad [2] which holds valuable lessons about the evidence-base on […]