UPDATED: Gossip & Scandal & Shutdown Shutdown & Obamacare
Gossip & scandal galore in science blogging What a week. I hardly know where to begin. Let’s try one conventional structure: reverse chronological order. Bora Zivkovic, who has built and run the...
View ArticleHuman Evolution at Dmanisi, plus More Scandal and Gossip in Science Blogging
Human evolution: What the Dmanisi fossils tell us about who we are The history of human paleontology can be viewed as a relentless battle between lumpers and splitters. Wikipedia claims Charles...
View ArticleMore on Sexual Harassment. Also, Billions of Earth-like Planets
Sexual Harassment and Science Writing The recent events involving sexual harassment and former SciAm uber-blogger Bora Zivkovic are no longer dominating science blogs. But they have not vanished from...
View ArticlePost Removed: Yet More On Sexual Harassment
PLOS BLOGS has determined that the “On Science Blogs” post that had occupied this page violated one of the key principles we hold for our blog network, specifically, the following language which is...
View ArticleScience at the Sochi Winter Olympics, plus the Latest on Gene Editing
The Sochi Olympics: Geology, ecology, and climate Something I’ve been wondering, and Bob Costas & Matt Lauer & Co. haven’t been telling me, is why the devil Sochi, a summer resort town? Well,...
View ArticleLab safety, smallpox and more virulent flu, marijuana benefits, plus...
Lab safety is even worse than you thought The best single blog source for keeping up with the current smallpox-anthrax-flu-lab safety fiasco is Maryn McKenna’s Superbug, one of the Wired blogs. Some...
View ArticleA fix for GMO battles? Plus sexual harassment during field research
Give us this day a fix for the GMO battles? Two papers published in the last week were signal events for agricultural genomics. First was the draft of the huge, and hugely complex, genome of bread...
View ArticleAt Year’s End: Staff Editors’ Favorite PLOS ONE Articles of 2014
2014 has been an exciting year for PLOS ONE. We saw the journal reach a milestone, publishing its 100,000th article. PLOS ONE also published thousands of new research articles this year, including some...
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