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 our paper is wrong or weird, please say so. If you think something in our paper is supported by other work we do not cite, please say this too. If you have anything useful to say, please make comments.
How do you do this?
- Go to the paper at the PLoS One Web Site.
- In the upper right click on “Login” if you have an account or “Create account” if you do not.
- Return to the paper once you are logged in
- Find some part of the text you want to comment on
- Highlight that text and click over on the right “Add a note” or “Make a comment”
- Fire away.
I'm a biologist at UC Berkeley and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. I work primarily on flies, and my research encompases evolution, development, genetics, genomics, chemical ecology and behavior. I am a strong proponent of open science, and a co-founder of the 