By Victoria Costello, PLOS Senior Social Media & Community Editor The good news is you’ve published your manuscript! The bad news? With…
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Publishing How Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific ConversationRead more
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PLOS ONE A digital head for AcanthostegaRead more
What has 16 fingers and a digital skull? Acanthostega, that’s what! Acanthostega was one of the first limbed (rather than strictly “finned”) vertebrates, living around…
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PLOS ONE Beefy Bones and a Big Bite for the Ancient Whale BasilosaurusRead more
Although its name sounds rather dinosaurian, Basilosaurus was in fact one of the first extinct whales to make a splash in humanity’s perception…
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post Oliver Sacks on Cancer, Vision and Science: Revisiting his 2010 InterviewRead more
When I was an undergraduate studying Cognitive Science, a professor sent out a short list of recommended reading. Neurologist Oliver Sacks’s The…
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post FMRI under the Microscope: An interview with MRI Physicist PractiCal fMRIRead more
By Emilie Reas, PLOS Neuroscience Community Editor Since its development in the early 1990’s, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has grown in…
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Publishing Formatting Your Article for Submission: Updated figures, tables, new reference style and LaTex templateRead more
March 1, 2017 Editor’s Note: The Preflight Analysis and Conversion Engine (PACE) tool for figures is fully up and available for author’s…
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post T-Shirt Design Winner Prashanth Suravajhala Contemplates Hypothetical ProteinsRead more
Prashanth Suravajhala, a biologist and bioinformatician, stared down the Brucella and human genomes and wondered whether the vast swaths of non-coding regions…
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post The neuroscience of relationships: toward naturalistic interactive neuroimagingRead more
By Erin Yeagle Most of us don’t think twice about the fact that experimental conditions in neuroscience and psychology rarely mirror the…
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post How Psychology and Neuroscience Get Sex and Gender Wrong : Neuroskeptic Goes In-Depth with Cordelia FineRead more
Has neuroscience proven that men and women are born different? Or are male brains and female brains mostly similar? Is there even…
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Dinosaurs Assembling the Aquilops PaperRead more
In my previous post, I introduced Aquilops, a new little dinosaur from ancient Montana, and talked about some of the science behind establishing…
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Dinosaurs Aquilops, the little dinosaur that couldRead more
Today, several colleagues and I named a really cute little dinosaur—Aquilops americanus. At around 106 million years old, Aquilops turns out to be…
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Open Access Lungfish brains ain’t boringRead more
I tend to think of fish brains as fairly unremarkable. Too simple relative to mammal brains, too un-dinosaur-y relative to dinosaur brains…