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 Early Career Researchers Talk #365papersRead more
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From the community Wind Blowin’ in the [Brackets]: Tribute to the Convention on Biological DiversityRead more
Guest post by Joseph Vogel Twenty-five years of negotiations by Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity over “access…
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In the News PLOS Provides Feedback on the Implementation of Plan SRead more
We welcome Plan S as a ‘decisive step towards the realisation of full open access’1, in particular the push it provides towards…
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post To de-extinct or not to de-extinct?Read more
On Thursday (31 January) evening, Intelligence Squared U.S. organizes a debate on de-extinction, where proponents and opponents of the notion will…
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Ecology Sex ≠GenderRead more
A guest post from Talia Young, Ph.D., David H. Smith Conservation Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University & Director of Fishadelphia I recently saw another ecology talk refer…
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In the News PLOS Board AppointmentsRead more
After a careful search and much consideration, we are excited to share with our community five new appointments we’ve made to…
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From the community Open access under attack – how international regulation collides with the open use of genetic sequence dataRead more
Written by Fabian Rohden Current discussions on international level, namely the Nagoya Protocol, circle around regulating the access to genetic sequence…
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Innovation PLOS Authors Say “Yes” to PreprintsRead more
We’ve surpassed 1,300 preprint posts to bioRxiv! This is an incredible milestone for us and for all of our authors who chose…
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post iGEM 2018: The grand prize winners share their experienceRead more
iGEM competitions are always exciting, and this year’s Jamboree was no exception. iGEM Marburg won the grand prize on the overgrad…
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Early Career Family and the FieldRead more
Over the weekend I submitted a grant proposal, wrote a quippy tweet, and read a paper. The paper was Dr…
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News The first synbio Nobel PrizeRead more
I had the chance to attend a presentation from Frances Arnold last June, at the Metabolic Engineering 12 conference in Munich…
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Interview Looking for the origins of life using synthetic biology: an interview with Betul KacarRead more
In the interdisciplinary field of engineering life, synthetic biologists team up with experts from different fields. However, pairing synthetic biology with…