Three of my papers got accepted to BMD 2013 (two oral presentations and one poster). I'm very elated about this as I only got a poster presentation at the first BMD conference in 2010 and I will finally get to talk about my dissertation work in front of my peers …

I just received an email from Hindawi Publishers inviting me to submit an open access journal article for a topic I no nothing about. The email was from fluids@journals.hindawi.com. I've heard that Hindawi is legit but these kind of practices make them seem like scammers. Here is …