Microbial genomics in PLoS
Considering this I am kinda baffled by this. There is tons of microbial metagenomics and genomics in PLoS journals....Posted on May 7, 2008 9:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Search this blog
Profile
I am the Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE (Public Library of Science). My job is to try to motivate you to comment on the papers there. My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
Buy the 2007 Science Blogging Anthology:
Buy the 2006 Science Blogging Anthology:
Recent Posts
- The good guys won
- A cellular riddle
- Today's carnivals
- My Picks From ScienceDaily
- 42
- ClockQuotes
- Postscript to Pittendrigh's Pet Project - Phototaxis, Photoperiodism and Precise Projectile Parabolas of Pilobolus on Pasture Poop
- My Picks From ScienceDaily
- ClockQuotes
- New UNC Chancellor is a scientist. w00t!
Recent Comments
- Jim Thomerson on A cellular riddle
- Coturnix on 42
- bill on 42
- Blake Stacey on 42
- oldcola on 42
- Coturnix on 42
- Mike Haubrich, FCD on 42
- Laelaps on 42
- Barn Owl on 42
- Coturnix on 42
Archives
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
Blogroll
Subscribe via Email
Stay abreast of your favorite bloggers' latest and greatest via e-mail, via a daily digest.
My Old Stuff
Read the archives of my old blogs:
Make Me Happy
Add Scienceblogs to your Technorati Favorites!
Make Me Solvent
Resources
Dictionary of Circadian Physiology
Basic Terms and Concepts in Math and Science
I Support
Bloggie Stuff
PLoS:
Harold Varmus on NPR's Science Friday
Tomorrow at noon, tune into NPR's Science Friday, as you do every week anyway, I know, and you do not need to be told by me, but this time, make sure you hear Harold Varmus being interviewed about the implementation...Posted on April 10, 2008 10:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NIH public access law is now being implemented
As many of you may be aware, yesterday was the first day of the implementation of the new NIH law which requires all articles describing research funded by NIH to be deposited into PubMed Central within 12 months of publication....Posted on April 8, 2008 11:52 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Welcome the new Managing Editor of PLoS ONE
There is a change in the command center of PLoS ONE this month. The transition will be seamless. The new editor, Peter Binfield has joined us a couple of weeks ago and has assumed the Big Kahuna position on the...Posted on April 4, 2008 9:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
TOPAZ update
The IT/Web team has been hard at work to make TOPAZ, the platform for 5 out of 7 PLoS journals work smoothly again....Posted on March 18, 2008 10:12 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Congratulations to K.T.Vaughan
For becoming the 1000th member of the PLoS Facebook group. I think some swag will be going her way... ;-)...Posted on March 18, 2008 9:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Peopling of the Americas - add your thoughts
There is an ongoing Journal Club on the PLoS ONE article A Three-Stage Colonization Model for the Peopling of the Americas. You'll see that the first comments there have been posted by people you know - bloggers like Martin Rundkvist...Posted on March 17, 2008 10:06 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
TOPAZ Upgrade and other Big News from PLoS
It was a heroic (and sometimes nerve-wrecking) couple of months for the IT/Web team at PLoS, but the fruits of their labor will shortly be visible to all. PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics and PLoS Pathogens will soon migrate onto...Posted on February 27, 2008 9:22 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PLoS Biology 2.0 - Congratulations to Jonathan!
This is an exciting day at PLoS and, after having to keep my mouth shut for a couple of months about it, I am really happy to be free to announce to the world that my friend and excellent science...Posted on February 25, 2008 8:51 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How to have your papers deposited into PubMed Central
Are you confused with the new NIH Policy and unsure as to what you need to do? If so, Association of Research Libraries has assembled a very useful website that explains the process step by step. But the easiest thing...Posted on February 21, 2008 9:10 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
EEB in PLoS ONE
The word 'ONE' in PLoS ONE indicates that the journal publishes articles in all areas of science. This is not as easy as it sounds, of course. The majority of papers published so far have some kind of biomedical connection...Posted on February 20, 2008 10:55 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Viruses in the Oceans: join the latest Journal Club
Brendan Bohannan, Richard W. Castenholz, Jessica Green and their students and postdcos at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Oregon are currently doing a Journal Club on the PLoS ONE article The Sorcerer II Global Ocean...Posted on February 20, 2008 6:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PLoS Blog update
Last week, we made a little upgrade to the PLoS Blog. If you look at any individual post you will see that we added the "e-mail this page" and "Printer-friendly version" buttons on the bottom of each post. We have...Posted on January 22, 2008 1:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Journal Club on PLoS ONE - Chimps exchange fruit for sex
A paper published back in September - Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit by Hockings et al. is getting renewed attention these days. Rebecca Walton has compiled links to the recent media and blog coverage of the paper (including those by my...Posted on January 21, 2008 3:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Journal Club!
Members of the Rodriguez lab and the Otero lab, both of Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante (CSIC-Universidad Miguel Hernandez. Spain) have just posted their first Journal Club commentary on the PLoS ONE article High-Pass Filtering of Input Signals by the...Posted on January 9, 2008 6:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The most exciting job in science publishing can be yours!
PLoS ONE is the first and (so far) the most successful scientific journal specifically geared to meet the brave new world of the future. After starting it and bringing it up from birth to where it is now one year...Posted on January 8, 2008 11:10 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Clocks and Migratory Orientation in Monarch Butterflies
I had no time to read this in detail and write a really decent overview here, perhaps I will do it later, but for now, here are the links and key excerpts from a pair of exciting new papers in...Posted on January 7, 2008 8:14 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How would you like to work at PLoS Medicine?
If you are a doctor, or a post doctoral researcher in a relevant area, and you want to spend 6 months to a year working at a medical journal, this is a great opportunity for you - PLoS Medicine is...Posted on January 6, 2008 1:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ONE is One!
On This Day In History: The very first article in then brand-new journal PLoS ONE was published on December 20th, 2006. And the Earth trembled (literally - there was an earthquake in San Francisco on that day). And the world...Posted on December 20, 2007 4:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Zotero Translator for PLoS Articles
Zotero is a Firefox plug-in that allows you to manage and cite research papers. They just announced that Zotero now works with PLoS papers. If you have no idea what I am talking about, Rich Cave explains....Posted on December 4, 2007 12:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Boston - Part 2: Publishing in the New Millennium
It's been a while since I came back from Boston, but the big dinosaur story kept me busy all last week so I never managed to find time and energy to write my own recap of the Harvard Conference. Anna...Posted on November 21, 2007 11:47 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Extreme Dinosaur: Nigersaurus, the Mesozoic Cow!
Today is a super-exciting day for me and I hope you will find it exciting as well. Why? Because today PLoS ONE published a paper I am very hyped about - Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur by Sereno PC,...Posted on November 15, 2007 10:37 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Would You Like to Work at PLoS?
I just noticed there are six ads on the PLoS Jobs page. I thought that my vast blog readership (sic!) may include people suited for and interested in such jobs. Perhaps you would like to work as a Web Producer,...Posted on November 12, 2007 3:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"The Truth and Truthiness, together at last!"
If you look over to you right (you may have to refresh your page or click on internal links and thus raise my pageviews to see it) you will see an ad on the right side-bar that takes you to...Posted on November 12, 2007 9:44 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Week in PLoS
What with all the traveling, I am behind with all the PLoS-related news. So, let me put it all together in one post here. In the Media There is a very nice article in New York Times about the launch...Posted on November 11, 2007 5:43 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Breaking News: PLoS ONE Managing Editor visits the Chapel Hill office!
Yup, Chris Surridge, Managing Editor of PLoS ONE (and the author of the legendary comment) swung by the Chapel Hill office last night. Since my initial stint was in the San Francisco office, and Chris is working in the Cambridge...Posted on November 3, 2007 3:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Announcing the new PLoS Journal: Neglected Tropical Diseases!
These last couple of days were very exciting here at PLoS. After months of preparation and hard work, PLoS presents the latest addition to its collection of top-notch scientific journals. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases went live yesterday at 6:42pm EDT....Posted on October 31, 2007 2:59 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Clocks, magnetoreception, jellyfish fossils, frog diversity, African Buffalo, emotions + memory, overfishing, infectious cancers, solar disinfection, salamanders, Drosophila evolution, Phineas Gage...Posted on October 30, 2007 7:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Where does a fruitfly go when it goes out for a walk?
Last week's PLoS ONE paper, Analysis of the Trajectory of Drosophila melanogaster in a Circular Open Field Arena, is the subject of the newest Journal Club. It is an interesting methods paper, showing the way a camera and some math...Posted on October 30, 2007 4:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development
Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development (which I mentioned a few days ago here) was a great success. You can see all the articles associated with it here. PLoS has collected all the poverty-related articles from its Journals...Posted on October 24, 2007 8:42 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Links and files from ConvergeSouth and ASIS&T
My brain is fried. My flight home was horrifying - the pilot warned us before we even left the gate that the weather is nasty and that he ordered the stewardess to remain seated at least the first 30 minutes...Posted on October 24, 2007 5:36 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Birthday wishes all around!
Everyone at PLoS has been so busy lately, that we all forgot to check our calendars and note some important anniversaries! PLoS is turning 5 in December. PLoS Biology turned 4 last Saturday. PLoS Medicine is turning 3 this Friday....Posted on October 17, 2007 3:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Parts, Wholes, and Context in Reading - add your thoughts!
New Journal Club!Posted on October 16, 2007 9:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Journal Clubs - think of the future!
The recent return of Journal Clubs on PLoS ONE has been quite a success so far. People are watching from outside and they like what they see. The first Journal Club article, on microbial metagenomics, has already, in just one...Posted on October 9, 2007 11:15 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Web
Some good, thought-provoking reads about the Web, social networking, publishing and bloggingPosted on October 8, 2007 11:11 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Participate in Journal Clubs on PLoS ONE!
Journal Clubs are a popular feature on PLoS ONE papers. There were several of them in the spring. Now, after a brief summer break, the Journal Clubs are going live again and they will happen on a regular basis, perhaps...Posted on October 2, 2007 1:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New on PLoS today!
Lots of new stuff on PLoS today. So, let's go over it one by one. First, today is the inaugural day of the Clinical Trials Hub, central place for all the papers reporting on clinical trials and discussions of them,...Posted on September 28, 2007 5:06 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Great news from PLoS for Bloggers
Yesterday, PLoS ONE moved to the newest version of the TOPAZ platform. Rich Cave explains all the improvements that this move entails, including the citation download for articles, but one new feature that should really be exciting to bloggers are...Posted on September 21, 2007 11:40 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New and Exciting in PLoS Community Journals
As always on Fridays, there are new papers published in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS Computational Biology. I like to take my own picks, and today I pick this pre-publication (there is a provisional PDF online) in my own...Posted on September 14, 2007 5:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE
Holy Cow! Every Tuesday night I like to link to 5-6 of the brand new papers on PLoS ONE that I find personally most intriguing. But today, it is so difficult to choose - I want to highlight something like...Posted on September 11, 2007 11:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cool Stuff on PLoS Today
In PLoS Biology: High-Resolution Genome-Wide Dissection of the Two Rules of Speciation in Drosophila: The evolution of reproductive isolation is a fundamental step in the origin of species. One kind of reproductive isolation, the sterility and inviability of species hybrids,...Posted on September 10, 2007 8:59 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Grand Ad Campaign Has Started!
Check out this screenshot of the front page of PLoS ONE: See the banner on the top right? Looks familiar? There are several rotating ads, so you may have to click around several papers until you get to see it...Posted on September 5, 2007 6:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases - sneak preview
The next journal to be launched by the Public Library of Science is PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. To whet your appetite, two papers were published in advance, both on the cause of River Blindness and the evolution of resistance to...Posted on August 30, 2007 4:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Commenting on PLoS ONE: Q&A
Intrigued, but unsure about the whole thing? Would like to add comments, but don't really understand what is acceptable? Read this....Posted on August 22, 2007 4:19 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Free Will" on display on SciVee
Do you remember all the buzz about the paper on the not random but not deterministic either behavior in fruitflies? By our blogfriend Bjoern Brembs? Well, you can now watch the behavior of the insect in the movie associated with...Posted on August 22, 2007 11:23 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SciVee.com
Video is taking over science communication. And why not? Now that paper is outdated, the limitations of that ancient technology should not apply to scientific publishing any more. Just because paper cannot support movies does not mean that modern scientific...Posted on August 20, 2007 6:39 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
PLoS Blog
As could have been expected, I am now officially the blogmeister of the PLoS blog. I have just posted my first introductory post there. It is a Drupal blog. The above and below the fold parts are separate (you see...Posted on August 16, 2007 1:54 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Final Scifoo Wrap-up
As I predicted, bloggers have waited a day or two before they wrote much of substance abour Scifoo. First, you don't want to miss out on any cool conversations by blogging instead. Second, the experience is so intense, one needs...Posted on August 10, 2007 4:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jobs: Managing Editor, PLoS Biology
I am not sure if blogging about it is enough - in this case a very strong Resume may be more important - but if you think you have sufficient experience and expertise to be a Managing Editor of a...Posted on August 8, 2007 8:27 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Google Earth on PLoS ONE papers
As far as I know, there are two papers on PLoS ONE so far that, as Supporting Information, have KML files readable by Google Earth: Naturalised Vitis Rootstocks in Europe and Consequences to Native Wild Grapevine and this week's Regional...Posted on August 8, 2007 7:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New look for PLoS journals.
Home pages of PLoS Biology, Medicine, Computational Biology, Genetics and Pathogens have a new look today. Richard Cave explains the design changes. Go take a look....Posted on August 3, 2007 5:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last day in San Francisco
A pictorial guide to drinking bloggers...Posted on August 3, 2007 3:32 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Happy Birthday, PLoS ONE!
On this day one year ago, PLoS ONE opened its doors to manuscript submissions. Chris Surridge, the Managing Editor, wrote a blog post recounting the past year: The initial success of PLoS ONE is something unprecedented in scientific publishing....Posted on August 1, 2007 7:46 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Look at the sticker!
This picture, from this article, must have been taken some time last week, just a couple of days after Jimmy Wales came to talk to us here at PLoS. That is when he placed the PLoS sticker on his laptop:...Posted on July 19, 2007 12:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New and Exciting on PLoS ONE
There are 21 new papers on PLoS ONE published this week. Here are some titles that got my personal attention: Climate Change, Genetics or Human Choice: Why Were the Shells of Mankind's Earliest Ornament Larger in the Pleistocene Than in...Posted on July 18, 2007 3:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Online Science Discussion
Curtis, one of the founders of JeffsBench wrote a very interesting article comparing JeffsBench to PLoS ONE in their roles in fostering online scientific discussions. Register, look around and comment.......Posted on July 18, 2007 2:09 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nursing PLoS
Kim of Emergiblog explains nicely why you should support Open Access publishing: The Public Library of Science: You are writing a paper. You need to do some research, so you google your topic. Ah ha! There it is! The perfect...Posted on July 18, 2007 1:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
San Francisco - a running commentary #2
Wow - this was (and still is) a very busy week. On most days, I just crashed early, without having the energy to blog very much (at least very much for me). In the last dispatch, I forgot to mention...Posted on July 13, 2007 12:56 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Now You Can (and Should) rate papers on PLoS ONE!
I buried this information between numerous pretty pictures in a yesterday's post, so let me now tell you a little bit more. A couple of days ago, a new feature was introduced on all published papers on PLoS ONE. Along...Posted on July 12, 2007 10:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
San Francisco - a running commentary
OK, so I've been here for about a week now. It's been so far an exciting and overwhelming experience - there is so much to learn! And I am impatient with myself and want to get in the groove right...Posted on July 11, 2007 6:27 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
First Day at PloS
This post has been written in advance and scheduled for automatic posting. At the time this post shows up, I'll be sleeping my first night in San Francisco. A few hours later, I'll be at PLoS offices and will hopefully...Posted on July 6, 2007 10:27 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
