Jasmine Wallace, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Jasmine Wallace is the Peer Review Manager at the American Society for Microbiology, responsible for ensuring peer review practices and policies are up-to-date and applied consistently across their journals. She is also a Teaching Assistant at George Washington University and serves as co-chair of the Professional Development Committee for the Council of Science Editors.

Articles by Jasmine Wallace

[Virtual] Conference Season Is Here: Are you prepared?

This year’s conference season will look a lot different than last year’s. Here are some tips to getting the most out of attending a virtual conference.

Ask The Chefs: New Normal Part 2

From binge watching, binge listening, reconnecting with neighbors and old friends, Zoom happy hours or Zoom family game nights, to cooking, exercising, and gardening, we’re all figuring out how to get through our days. What’s your strategy? Part 2 of our answers today.

Editorially Surviving an Outbreak

The key to surviving an outbreak is being equipped with the proper supplies. Make sure your editorial survival kit is fully stocked. Here are a few items you should definitely have in your emergency tool kit!

Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2019 Part 1

The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read during the year. Part 1 today, Part 2 tomorrow.

How to Be A Good Peer Reviewer

A major factor in determining quality in the peer review process are the reviewers. Without peers providing high-quality reviews, the value-add of the peer review process declines. We started this conversation about what makes a quality peer review within our larger community via Twitter , and came up with a few qualities of good peer reviewers.

Conference Season Is Here: Are you Prepared?

Jasmine Wallace shares strategies for getting the most out of attending publishing meetings.

Finding the Right Training and Career Development Opportunities for Your Organization

Your desk is covered with brochures about getting new skills to meet growing needs, and course offerings for continuing education credits. Your inbox is filled with notices about meetings and webinars. How do you decide which is worth your time?

How-to: Getting to the End of Your Comfort Zone

What topic makes you uncomfortable in our industry? For me, it’s diversity: a subject that impacts me, but that I’ve never been courageous enough to address.

What Is the Value of a Master’s In Publishing?

Editor’s Note: Today’s Guest Post is written by Jasmine Wallace, the Peer Review Manager at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in Washington, D.C. At ASM she sets peer review priorities and helps ensure peer review practices and policies are […]