We speak to Tiara Moore, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Black in Marine Science, about her organization and her vision for…
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Advocacy Q&A with Tiara MooreRead more
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Advocacy Help us highlight your research with videos!Read more
This year has shown us how important science communication is, and how we scientists can contribute to a better understanding of science…
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Advocacy Data Sharing: Better for Everyone, Especially You!!Read more
Happy Open Data Day 2019! It’s that special day of the year again! Well, every day should be Open Data…
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Advocacy Post Removed by PLOSRead more
Statement from PLOS: Please note that this blog post covering the Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration (February 11…
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Advocacy Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on DNA Topoisomerases in Biology and Medicine (July 28 – August 3, 2018): Lorena Infante LaraRead more
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Advocacy Be Bold, Go for Gold!Read more
From the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) meeting in 2002 to the present day, Open Access has come a long way…
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Advocacy An Unexpected Perk of our Data PolicyRead more
What happens if you like a study, but find the way that the authors have chosen to present their data unintuitive…
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Advocacy Setting Your Cites on OpenRead more
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about 6 months, the initiative…
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Advocacy Hooray for Open Data Day!Read more
What if, just for one day, we all took some time to focus and think about Open Data? March 4th, 2017 is…
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Advocacy Making the Case for Basic ResearchRead more
Scientists stuck on the grant-seeking treadmill may find comfort in the results of a recent report from the National Science Foundation. Eighty-five…
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Advocacy Double bill on citation metrics: A new alternative to the Impact Factor plus a handy guide to citation normalizationRead more
On Monday, PLOS Biology published two articles on citation metric-based evaluation of published research. In the first, a Meta-Research Article (a…
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Advocacy Meta-Research: Getting the Most Out of ResearchRead more
Scientific research, often portrayed as the acme of human rigorous thought, is actually an activity that’s grown rather organically over the centuries…