Ironically enough, I was at a meeting about oil spills when the Macondo well blew. The “Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Arctic waters” workshop…
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From The Editor’s Desk: The Case For Open Access
Color me surprised that there is still resistance against open access journals. I was extremely flattered a few years ago to be invited to join…
View More From The Editor’s Desk: The Case For Open AccessNew Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In…
View More New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard SecretsPLoS One and the Census of Marine Life
One of the greatest moments of my career was being invited to serve as editor at PLoS One. This moment was surpassed by the day…
View More PLoS One and the Census of Marine LifeResearchBlogCast #11: A Population Genetics Species Concept?
A recent PLoS One paper by Birky and colleagues attempts to define species for asexual animals using the theoretical framework that has been developed by…
View More ResearchBlogCast #11: A Population Genetics Species Concept?The Future of Online (Academic) Publishing
A presentation to the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors on August 2009 from Peter Binfield Chief Editor at PLoS One
View More The Future of Online (Academic) PublishingMarine and Aquatic Science at PLoS One
I was extremely flattered a year ago to be invited to join the academic editors at PLoS One. In that time I worked diligently to…
View More Marine and Aquatic Science at PLoS OneSeamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought
About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…
View More Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We ThoughtLiveBlogging Science Online ’09: Open Access
Note: This was liveblogged at the time, but the wifi crashed under the weight of 200 simultaneous livebloggers. ——————————————————————————————————— As many readers know, we are…
View More LiveBlogging Science Online ’09: Open AccessScience Online '09
– by Kevin Zelnio Science is being revolutionized by the internet. More and more scientists are blogging, using wiki’s, special search engines, social networking sites…
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