I get very frustrated every time I see an article about a PLoS article in the popular press that doesn’t include a link to the article. One of our motivations for starting PLoS was to give the public access to the primary research literature, and readers of popular news accounts of one of our articles [...]
A lot of people have asked about getting the various t-shirts I’ve made for PLoS and the Fly Meeting. I’ve posted the images for on zazzle.com if anyone wants a t-shirt of their own (proceeds go to PLoS). create & buy custom products at Zazzle
I just received an email from Herb Sandler: Dear friends We are living in a benighted time. It is hard to believe that the attacks on Marion and me, and the company, are really happening. As you know, we were one of the very few companies which was monomaniacally focused on loan quality, doing what’s [...]
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Euan Adie has a great post over at Nascent (Nature’s web tech blog) about commenting in PLoS One. My thoughts on it later, but it’s definitely worth checking out what he’s done.
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My brother’s lab has a new paper in PLoS One, and he wants to use it to jumpstart our efforts to get postpublication commenting rolling: I am offering up my paper as a case study. If you comment and ask questions or make critiques, I will try to respond. And if you think something in [...]
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I haven’t been so worried about the Conyers bill to end the NIH Public Access policy because I figured even in the unlikely event it got through Congress, Obama wouldn’t sign it. But then I read this post by Seth Johnson about “stacking” of the Justice Department with veteran copyright defenders. I’m still not all [...]
Last year, Peter Hotez published an editorial in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases in which he proposed that rather than just close the prison at Guantonamo Bay, we instead establish a “center of excellence on the diseases of poor that … would directly address poverty and health disparities in the worst-off nations in Central and South [...]
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Five years ago today Public Library of Science (PLoS) published the first issue of our first journal – PLoS Biology. It was the first step in our plan to liberate the scientific and medical literature from the needless restrictions on access and use imposed by the subscription based journals. Our goal, as expressed in the [...]
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I'm an evolutionary biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. My research focuses on the evolution and population genomics of gene regulation in flies. I am also very interested in promoting various forms of open science. And most importantly, I am a Red Sox fan.