Note: PLOS issued the following press release on Thursday, December 7, 2023 Halle/Saale, Germany, and San Francisco, United States – The Public…
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Early Career PLOS partners with the Global Young Academy to advance Open Science principles
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Collaboration PLOS partners with Einstein Foundation Berlin on Award for Promoting Quality in Research
PLOS is delighted to announce a brand new partnership with the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research. …
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion The Ocean Womxn program – supporting a new generation of black oceanographers
The University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa is in a prime location to conduct oceanographic research and features a wealth of scientific expertise. However, as…
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Early Career Editor’s tips for passing journal checks
You’ve painstakingly mapped out your research goal: to answer that unanswered question. You’ve conducted your experiments, analyzed the results and written your…
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Collaboration Show your work. Peer-Reviewed Protocols
To support increased sharing of open research methodologies -- and in an exciting extension to our partnership with protocols.io -- we are announcing two new peer-reviewed article types in PLOS ONE in…
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Early Career Drawn to Learning
This post is a short attempt to peel back the curtain on my “bad at pollen” process. Since my very first pollen…
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Citizen Science Scientists Who Selfie: Building Public Trust Through Social Media
There are many ways to communicate science, but few as expedient and direct as social media. But while Twitter and Instagram have…
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Early Career Early Career Researchers Talk #365papers
I’ve written before about my aspirational, if mercurial, commitment to #365papers — the social media challenge to read one peer-reviewed paper a…
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Early Career Family and the Field
Over the weekend I submitted a grant proposal, wrote a quippy tweet, and read a paper. The paper was Dr…
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Early Career 525,600 minutes, 365 papers, and 100 articles every ecologist should read
Last month, Nature Ecology & Evolution published Courchamp and Bradshaw’s ‘100 articles every ecologist should read.’ Here, Courchamp and Bradshaw attempt to…
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Citizen Science The Importance of Storytelling in Science
“We owe it to each other to tell stories.” – Neil Gaiman Scientific writing is often belied as dry, stale; a…