Peer Review Week 2018 is all about diversity. To look at the changing scholarly landscape, we interviewed science publishing historian, Aileen Fyfe…
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Open Science Opening up to new perspectives: an interview with Aileen Fyfe
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post Moving Beyond Left Brain, Right Brain, Neuroskeptic goes in-depth with Michael Corballis
By Neuroskeptic “Are you a left brain or a right brain person?” The idea that the logical left half of our brain…
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PLOS ONE Planting a Cretaceous Pond, South American Edition
If you close your eyes and visualize Mesozoic foliage, a few particular types of plants might spring to mind. There are probably…
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post Welcome to the PLOS Synthetic Biology Community: Why a Community Site? How Do I Get Involved?
Thank you for visiting this new new online gathering place for current and prospective authors working in a dynamic and still emerging…
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News Welcome to Your Community Site
Welcome to our new community for current and prospective PLOS authors who work in any of the disciplines that intersect in the emerging…
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Dinosaurs Ichthyosaur is the New Black
Just yesterday, a group of 2nd graders asked me what color dinosaurs were. I was pretty excited to tell them we actually…
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Zoology Prehistoric Platypus: Revenge of the Monotremes
(I tried to make the title of the post sound like a SyFy movie title, let me know how I did) Obdurodon…
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Climate Change Climate Change and Paleontology: Back to the Future
This week and next at PLOS Blogs, we are doing a focus on climate change. This is leading up to a great…
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post So You Wanna Be a Paleoecologist? Part II
Paleoecology, Paleodiets, and Paleobiology In my last entry, I explained the basics of stable isotope geochemistry for paleoecology. Now that we have…