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Seasonal blues - as a SAD sufferer I agree - spring and summer rock; fall and winter...try to survive.
Byte Size Biology: Weekly poll: favorite wolf metric? - (yup, scientometrics)
This is morbid and spectacular: Photos of remote birds killed by our trash - how we are killing the world with our plastic!
Downie-Schudson journalism report: Who are they writing for?
Stuart Shieber: Is open-access journal publishing a vanity publishing industry? - 'Not likely'
PLoS article citations per day, colored by publication year - Shows that PLoS ONE has an overall equal rate of citation to PLoS Biology.
£2 million more for Wellcome Trust author fund and German Research Foundation funding for university author funds.
Interactive 3D Molecules in PLoS ONE articles
The anti-vaccine war on science: An epidemic of fear and The New Plague.
Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays
'Guerrilla OA' done right. and discussion.
PNAS will publish controversial papers, journal says - PNAS paper conclusion like saying if "humans had sex with fish and then you get whales"
I never thought of a 404 page as an opportunity!
Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter
Superfreakonomics: How did they get climate change so wrong? - "...contrarianism may be fun, but it's not for amateurs."
Lasers used to write false memories onto the fruit fly brain
Notebooks Aside...Science writers grapple with digital media at annual meeting
The incompetent workplace bullies - Psychologists have found that bullying happens more when bosses don't feel up to the job.
Are We Playing Telephone With Our Information? - In the media, Non-Scientists are deciding what is important.
Wellcome Trust calls for greater transparency from journals on open access publishing costs
The Growth of Citizen Science - How amateurs are contributing to research.
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