The WordifyScience Blog

After many years of supporting the scientific and research communities, we’re sharing our insights -including editing tips, grant writing strategies, lessons learned - to help you achieve your research goals, secure funding and make the process enjoyable.
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and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Poetry in Scientific Texts: Balancing Clarity and Creativity

This morning, while performing a search for safety data on a drug on internet, among all hits, one in particular caught my eye. It contained a quote from Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince: "It is the time you have spent for your rose that makes your rose so important." Reading it moved something in me that made me check that hit over the other ones. The reference was not relevant for my purpose. But still, I will remember it longer than all the other ones. Introduction We kno

Scientific Writing

Rebecca Savioz

Jun 25 min read

The Waterproof Umbrella was one of many wonderful inventions and dates back to the 1st century

What Do Waterproof Umbrellas Have to Do with Generative AI?

My son craved for a football outfit for his last birthday. My husband ordered one and we waited for it to be delivered. And waited, and waited. And the outfit still wasn't in our mailbox a month after the order date. When I politely enquired what happened, I was informed that we had cancelled the order, and that the amount was refunded to us. Which wasn't true. So I politely wrote back to ask for either a proof of refund, or the outfit be sent. And we waited again. Two months

Artificial Intelligence

Rebecca Savioz

Apr 175 min read