To highlight our coverage of the 2015 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (#ESA100) and an updated PLOS Responding to Climate Change Collection, PLOS Blogs invited…
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Public Science Communication When the Science is Not Enough: Communicating the Consensus on Climate Change By Sam IllingworthRead more
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post Could the Pope’s Encyclical Push Public Opinion to Tipping Point on Climate? By Nancy VosnidouRead more
In the wake of last week’s release by Pope Francis of a radically comprehensive encyclical on the scientific causes and effects as well as the social…
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post ‘Second Screen’ for Health Care Messaging: Looking for Lessons from #CancerFilm By Sally JamesRead more
PLOS SciComm blog invited health and science journalist Sally James to write this post exploring lessons for science communicators learned from the large scale social media campaign mounted for the…
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post “P-hacking”: Megan Head on why it’s bad for scienceRead more
To mark evolutionary biologist Megan Head’s May 20 appearance on PLOS Science Wednesday “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) series on redditscience, we re-post this…
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Public Science Communication Beware the bad survey: Science literacy isn’t as bad as the statistics make it look By Cassie BartonRead more
Read the catchy one-line statistics that circulate in the headlines and on social media and you’d be forgiven for thinking that public…
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Collaboration between scientists The Future of Science Lies in an Understanding of Our PastRead more
By Cameron Neylon — Boyle’s Law in a Networked World When we talk about scholarly communication, we are almost always talking of…
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Collaboration between scientists A ‘Facebook for Science’? Neuroskeptic talks with Brett ButtliereRead more
In this guest post, PLOS Neuro Community Contributing Editor, Neuroskeptic, discusses a novel proposal for simplifying and improving the dissemination of scientific research, using…
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Collaboration between scientists When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online? By Jon UdellRead more
The Web was invented to enable scientists to collaborate. In 2000 the Los Alamos National Laboratory commissioned me to write a progress…