10 Years of PLOS ONE Research in the Media
Public Library of Science - PLoS ONE Blog,
Accompanying the new 10 Years of Research in the Media Collection, PLOS ONE Associate Editor, Nicola Stead discusses some of…
The Perils of Megajournals–and How to Avoid Them
social science space,
You like the idea of “megajournals”–online-only, open access journals that cover many subjects and publish content based only…
Blogs and their links with PubMed Commons
PubMed Commons Blog,
Blogs grew quickly into a dynamic and substantial element in the way we discuss, criticize and share information about…
Connecting all the dots – looking at the research paper
PLOS Tech,
Research catalyzes research, which catalyzes more research… At PLOS, we’re connecting the dots between our publications…
Expanding and updating the record: Authors using PubMed Commons
PubMed Commons Blog,
Soon, the comments being made in PubMed’s pilot scientific discussion forum will be visible to all PubMed users. You can read…
Research findings: going deeper than the article
PLOS Tech,
We have recently released two new Article-Level Metrics (ALM) data sources: Europe PMC Database Citations and DataCite. The…
People not Projects: the Moore Foundation continues to revolutionize marine microbiology w/ its Investigator program
The Tree of Life,
People not Projects. It is such a simple concept. But it is so powerful. I first became aware of this idea as it relates to…
Invisible aliens: they're not life as we know it -- yet
The Savvy Scientist | SmartPlanet,
Figuring out how to identify strange new forms of life on other planets may help to reveal some overlooked forms on this one…
PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up: 2011 in Review
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In this round-up, we would like to share with you some of the PLoS ONE articles covered by the media in 2011. It was really…
PLoS ONE: Five Years, Many Milestones
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PLoS ONE is five years old today – warmest congratulations to everyone who makes this journal a success! On Friday, we…
How deep social network “roots” help scientists communicate their research
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There’s been a lot of discussion recently about how social networks can specifically help scientists collaborate and spread…
Guest post from Antarctica: Joe Grzymski (@grzymski) on "The Story Behind Nitrogen Cost-Minimization"
The Tree of Life,
Well, this is getting really fun. I have been doing "The Story Behind the Paper" posts for my own papers for a while and…
Calling all authors, bloggers, reporters - please help with aggregating discussions of scientific papers
The Tree of Life,
There has been a lot of hand wringing over whether we should and if we should how should we link discussions about scientific…
PLoS ONE’s Media Tracking Project
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Everyday we find PLoS ONE papers in the news. Whether it’s a science blogger in the United Kingdom, an online newspaper in China…
Scientific Communication all-you-can-eat Linkfest
A Blog Around The Clock,
About a week ago, Catherine Clabby (editor at American Scientist), Anton Zuiker and I did a two-day workshop on science…
Strange things at #PLoS; a public call to get rid of the constraints of describing author contributions
The Tree of Life,
Well, am working with some others to submit a paper from a DARPA project to PLoS Computational Biology. And yet again, we have…
Worth a Thousand Words
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The image above is from the paper, The Giant Cafeteria roenbergensis Virus That Infects a Widespread Marine Phagocytic Protist…
Piccolo è bello–III° carnevale della biodiversità
Leucophaea,
Questo post fa parte del III° Carnevale della biodiversità, il cui argomento è "Le dimensioni contano". Il Carnevale è ospitato…
PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up
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In this media round-up: a chimp’s yawn is contagious, cows produce milk with a human protein and much much more. The manuscript…
Nice review/commentary on challenges in phylogenomic analysis in PLoS Bio by Philippe et al. #fb
The Tree of Life,
This one is definitely worth a read for phylogeneticists and phylogenomicists (is that a word?) out there: PLoS Biology…
Blog Pick of the Month – March
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The winner of Blog Pick of the Month for March is Jonathan Eisen from The Tree of Life blog, for posting the back-story on his…
Datos metagenómicos indicarían la existencia de un cuarto dominio en el árbol de la vida
BioUnalm,
El viernes pasado, un grupo de investigadores del famosísimo Instituto J. Craig Venter liderados por el Dr. Dongying Wu de la…
Visiones del Cuarto Dominio
Curiosidades de la Microbiología,
Árbol filogenético basado en el ss-rRNA mostrando las tres ramas principales (Fuente: Microbial Life)Uno de los pilares de la…
FAZ zur Rolle des Web 2.0 in der Wissenschaft
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Im Wissenschaftsteil der FAZ von heute findet sich ein lesenswerter Artikel von Joachim Müller-Jung zur Nutzung von Blogs und…
O quarto Domínio da Vida
O amigo de Wigner,
Sobre o artigo da equipe de Jonathan Eisen da UC Davis sobre evidências de um quarto Domínio da Vida. (aqui uma nota…
The story behind the story of my new #PLoSOne paper on "Stalking the fourth domain of life" #metagenomics #fb
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Well, here goes. This is a post about a paper that has been a long long time coming. Today, a paper of mine is being…