As managing editor of The PLOS Blogs Network, I’m grateful to SciComm blog writers/editors Jason Organ, Bill Sullivan, and Krista Hoffmann-Longtin for providing…
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Collaboration between scientists Our Top 17 in ’17: The Year in Science at PLOSBLOGS
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Collaboration between scientists Can you define ‘punctuated equilibrium’ (in one sentence)? A reboot for #SciCommPLOS
PLOSBLOGS Network would like to welcome a new team of accomplished science writers who will be taking on the leadership of this blog…
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post The scientific community tells its story on #Earthday2017 #WhyIMarch
[View the story “PLOSBLOGS: #MarchforScience on April 22 #WhyIMarch #StandUpforScience” on Storify]…
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Collaboration between scientists The Time is Right for Assertive Science: Scicomm in the Age of Trump
How ecologists and climate scientists can overcome despair and constructively respond to the installation of a climate denier as US president. What is…
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Collaboration between scientists Using ‘real life’ analogies to get past scientific uncertainty on climate change
Guest post by Rose Hendricks Many people still treat global warming as a contentious political issue, instead of one backed by scientific…
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Collaboration between scientists Where did science go last year? PLOSBLOGS’ top 16 in 2016
Certain science categories and subjects dominate the content of our PLOS Blogs Network. Among these, basic research and its clinical translation, critically endangered creatures…
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post Post election repost: As Florida voters are asked to weigh in on a GM mosquito field trial, where is (and isn’t) the science of Zika virus control?
11/9/15 Update from the Miami Herald Monroe County voters and those in the Lower Keys neighborhood of Key Haven on Tuesday were…
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post Plant that seed: A scientist reviews “Lab Girl”
By Viji Subramanian Plant geobiologist Hope Jahren’s recent book, “Lab Girl,” adeptly alternates between memoir and science as she offers engagingly…
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Collaboration between scientists New roles for science blogs in shifting sci-pub landscape: Paige Jarreau scrubs data from 2016 PLOSBLOGS Reader Survey
By Paige Jarreau Dr. Paige Jarreau is a science communication researcher and freelance science writer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2016…
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post If “Are GMOs Bad?” is the wrong question, what’s the right one? And how should scientists answer it?” By Erin Zess
Originally posted as “What we talk about when we talk about genetic modification” on PLOS Synbio Community. The big conversation is coming…
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Public Science Communication Repost: Where Does Ebola Come From? Communicating Science as a Matter of Life and Death – Part 1 of 2 By Ida Jooste
Editor’s note: In light of yesterday’s confirmation by the Liberian Health Ministry of the death from Ebola of a thirty year-old woman, the first…
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Collaboration between scientists Pseudonyms in Science: Neuroskeptic speaks to Neurocritic, Dr Primestein and Neurobonkers
By Neuroskeptic 20 March 2016 Over the past decade, science blogs have risen to become an important part of science communication and…