Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing her PhD research. “The phrases I have so far avoided using in this review are, ‘lipstick on a pig’, and ‘bullshit baffles brains’,” they wrote. To Silbiger, a marine biologist at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the words cut deep. The …
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