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clock | September 3, 2009It's almost Friday, so let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS ONE this week. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Googling Food Webs: Can an Eigenvector Measure Species' Importance for Coextinctions?:
Predicting the consequences of…
clock | September 2, 2009There are 23 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change on a Prairie Plant Community:
Climate change directly affects species by altering their physical environment and indirectly affects species by altering…
clock | September 1, 2009There are 7 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Re-Shuffling of Species with Climate Disruption: A No-Analog Future for California Birds?:
By facilitating independent shifts in species' distributions, climate disruption may result in the rapid development…
clock | August 31, 2009Monday - and new articles in PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and PLoS ONE. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Skeeter Buster: A Stochastic, Spatially Explicit Modeling Tool for Studying Aedes aegypti Population Replacement and Population Suppression…
clock | August 28, 2009There are 30 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Circadian Dysregulation Disrupts Bile Acid Homeostasis:
Bile acids are potentially toxic compounds and their levels of hepatic production, uptake and export are tightly regulated by many inputs, including…
clock | August 27, 2009So, let's see what's new in PLoS Genetics, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Pathogens and PLoS ONE this week. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Explaining Dog Wolf Differences in Utilizing Human Pointing Gestures: Selection for Synergistic Shifts in the Development of Some Social…
clock | August 26, 2009There are 22 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Playing Charades in the fMRI: Are Mirror and/or Mentalizing Areas Involved in Gestural Communication?:
Communication is an important aspect of human life, allowing us to powerfully coordinate our behaviour…
clock | August 25, 2009There are 33 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Business Return in New Orleans: Decision Making Amid Post-Katrina Uncertainty:
Empirical observations on how businesses respond after a major catastrophe are rare, especially for a catastrophe as great as…
clock | August 24, 2009There are many interesting articles published in PLoS ONE, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Biology and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Estimating Impact Forces of Tail Club Strikes by Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs:
It has been assumed that the unusual tail club…
clock | August 19, 2009There are 15 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Hippocampal Sharp Wave/Ripples during Sleep for Consolidation of Associative Memory:
The beneficial effect of sleep on memory has been well-established by extensive research on humans, but the…
clock | August 17, 2009Monday - let's see what's up in PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS ONE and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study:
About 1 in 10 women and 1 in 4 men have a chronic condition called sleep-…
clock | August 14, 2009Science Online London is next week. I really wanted to go this year, but hard choices had to be made....eh, well.
For those of you who, like me, cannot be there in person, there are plenty of ways to follow the meeting virtually. Follow @soloconf and the #solo09 hashtag on Twitter. Join the FriendFeed room. Check out the Facebook page. And of course there will be a lot of blogging, including in the Forums at Nature Network.
And for those of you who have computers with enough power and good graphics cards, another option is to follow the conference in Second Life - check that link to see how.
clock | August 11, 2009There are 29 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
The Apollo Number: Space Suits, Self-Support, and the Walk-Run Transition:
How space suits affect the preferred walk-run transition is an open question with relevance to human biomechanics and planetary…
clock | August 10, 2009Let's see what's new in PLoS ONE, PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Long-Term Functional Side-Effects of Stimulants and Sedatives in Drosophila melanogaster:
Small invertebrate animals, such as nematodes and fruit…
clock | August 4, 2009There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
What You See Is What You Get? Exclusion Performances in Ravens and Keas:
Among birds, corvids and parrots are prime candidates for advanced cognitive abilities. Still, hardly anything is known about…
clock | August 3, 2009Monday - time to check out PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, as well as, of course, PLoS ONE.
As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing by Stuart M. Shieber:
Scholars write articles to be read--the more access to their…
clock | July 31, 2009There are 14 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Speciation in the Deep Sea: Multi-Locus Analysis of Divergence and Gene Flow between Two Hybridizing Species of Hydrothermal Vent Mussels:
Reconstructing the history of divergence and gene flow between…
clock | July 30, 2009There are new articles in PLoS ONE, PLoS Genetics and PLoS Computational Biology today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Does the Clock Make the Poison? Circadian Variation in Response to Pesticides:
Circadian clocks govern daily physiological and molecular rhythms, and putative…
clock | July 29, 2009There are 21 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Possible Brucellosis in an Early Hominin Skeleton from Sterkfontein, South Africa:
We report on the paleopathological analysis of the partial skeleton of the late Pliocene hominin species Australopithecus…
clock | July 28, 2009There are 31 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Climate Change, Habitat Loss, Protected Areas and the Climate Adaptation Potential of Species in Mediterranean Ecosystems Worldwide:
Mediterranean climate is found on five continents and supports five…