Listing and delisting of species under the endangered species act (ESA) is a delicate political and scientific dance that can play out…
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Conservation When Biology and Policy are Moving Targets: The complex case of a potential success storyRead more
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post Social media etiquette at academic conferencesRead more
In today’s society, social media and social networking are almost universal. While some colleagues both old and young eschew Facebook, Twitter, and…
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Alt-Metrics Digital Identifiers Improve Recognition and Credit: ORCIDRead more
Connectivity and integrated data are moving ahead as the best minds in metadata, digital identifiers and networked discovery collaborate to ensure that…
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Conservation China leads the way: Intercropping for ecological and economic efficiency in agricultureRead more
Photo of maize intercropped with cowpea (above) – International Institute of Tropical Ag (Creative Commons License) Creating a sustainable agricultural system is…
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post The Decade of the Connectome: An Interview with Connectomics Founder Olaf SpornsRead more
By Micah Allen This post marks the first of my new interview series “Connecting the Dots: Big Thinkers in Cognitive Neuroscience”. Last…
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Dinosaurs A tiny start for the giant SaurolophusRead more
Gigantic skeletons of dinosaurs often draw the biggest crowds at museums, but the elusive remains of baby dinosaurs are breathtaking in their…
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PLOS ONE Ancient “Horse” Pregnancy Frozen in TimeRead more
Some fossils are just too cool. And slightly tragic. A 48 million year old fossil from the Messel beds of Germany fits this category…
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In the News PLOS Publication Costs UpdateRead more
Open Access scientific publishing makes scholarship available globally and relieves scholarly institutions from the overwhelming burden of commercial subscription fees. Because of…
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Synthetic Biology An Introduction to Start-Ups in Synthetic BiologyRead more
by Aditya Kunjapur When did you first hear the phrase “synthetic biology”? Was it many years ago, or did it just happen when…
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post How to get the latest PLOS ONE Paleo papers delivered to your inbox using the PLOS “Journal Alerts” toolRead more
PLOS ONE publishes hundreds of articles each week, and keeping up with it all is a challenge. Now you can tailor PLOS…
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Open Access Behind the Scenes at PhyloPicRead more
Open science is about more than just tossing some publications and data notebooks into the digital ether. It’s all about communication–so, at…
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Publishing Research MattersRead more
Research Matters is a new article series in which active scientists speak directly about why basic research in their field matters. It…