That lab work on virus-grown batteries led to a paper in Science in 2009 and heaps of media attention.
It led to a paper more focused on regional coverage and with less of a national reach.
A few years later I was asked to evaluate Monsanto's research on sustainability, which led to a paper I contributed to.
Chang's work on detecting emotion in social media, specifically tweets of Chicago gang members, led to a paper in EMNLP '18.
When I first noticed the discrepancy, I decided to quantify my impressions by doing a bit of Googling, and so was born an intriguing project that led to a paper published today in the journal PLoS One.
This led to a paper in Nature, which appeared at about the same time that other scientists (Jacques Miller and Tony Davies) were concluding that the thymus produces immunocompetent cells, later called T-cells.
"They grow a limb (a pilus) by stacking together polymerized proteins like a lego chain, and then they throw and yank, throw and yank to propel themselves along a surface," Gibbs explains of this work that led to a paper in the Journal of Bacteriology.
This interest led to a paper with John Loehlin and John DeFries on GE correlation and interaction, which continues to be my most highly cited paper (Plomin et al. 1977).
On Monday Defra launched a discussion paper that will lead to a white paper on the natural environment in spring 2011.
The expectation is not that this project will necessarily lead to a publishable paper, but rather that the student gets actively engaged in research.
