Blog Pick of the Month – August 2009

It is the first of September, thus the time to award my Pick Of The Month award for August. There were 16 blog posts covering PLoS ONE articles aggregated on ResearchBlogging.org in August.
And this month, the winner is Bjoern Brembs. He starts his post like this:
Use it or lose it, they say. The saying holds [...]

PLoS at ScienceOnline2010

ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual conference on science and the Web, will be held on January 15-17th, 2010 in the Research Triangle Park area (the exact location to be announced) of North Carolina, USA.
The conference was initially conceived as an opportunity for local North Carolina scientists, bloggers and teachers to meet and discuss how the online [...]

Blog Post Of The Month – May 2009

In May, there were 48 blog posts (a big jump in comparison to 27 in March and 29 in April) covering PLoS ONE articles aggregated on ResearchBlogging.org. Well, really 47 since one of them is ineligible due to conflict of interest. Reading all the posts is becoming a full-time job! Keep them coming!
I was somewhat [...]

Unicellular organisms have their own biological clocks

Guess who fed us this story? None other than our very own online discussion expert and Cicadian Rhythm expert, Bora Zivkovic, who was thrilled by an article that we published on PLoS ONE entitled Diurnally Entrained Anticipatory Behavior in Archaea . So excited was he, that he wrote this blog post which made it onto [...]

Weekly PLoS Blog and Media Round-up

It was difficult not to notice this week that there was quite a lot of media attention focused on an exciting new PLoS ONE article offering the first description of an amazing and beautiful fossil of Ida, the 47 million year old primate with the scientific name of Darwinius masillae:  Complete Primate Skeleton from the [...]

The How and Why of Trackbacks

Science, nature and medical blogs are an increasingly important part of the scientific publishing ecosystem:
If one thinks of the scientific paper as the center of an ecosystem, and the notes, comments and ratings on the paper as an additional, outer layer of the ecosystem, then the blogs and media are the ‘outside world’. By linking [...]

Blog Post Of The Month – March 2009

Yes, it’s April 1st, but this is not an April Fool’s joke. This is real. On the first day of every month, as I mentioned earlier, you are invited to visit everyONE to see who has won the Blog Post Of The Month prize.
In the month of March, there were 27 blog posts covering PLoS [...]

PLoS ONE on Twitter and FriendFeed

If you are reading this blog I assume you are pretty Web-savvy. Thus, you are aware of the recent proliferation of various microblogging services, most notably Twitter and FriendFeed (though, with recent changes, Facebook is now more of a microblogging service than a social network as well).
Despite online debates – which one is better: [...]