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Advocacy Expanding Globally, Listening Locally: Open Science in Africa
May 26, 2022 By PLOS

PLOS Biologue

Careers What does an editor actually do? The value of taking on an internship as a postdoc
May 19, 2022 By PLOS Biology

EveryONE

Interviews Interviews with the lab protocol community — insights from an Academic Editor and a reviewer
April 25, 2022 By Jianhong Zhou

Latitude

Biodiversity PLOS Sustainability and Transformation celebrates World Biodiversity Day
May 21, 2022 By Kendall McKenzie

Speaking of Medicine and Health

Global Health PLOS Global Public Health, charting a new path towards equity, diversity and inclusion in global health
June 14, 2021 By PLOS
Global Health US Dangerously Out of Step on Abortion Access
May 26, 2022 By PLOS Global Public Health

PLOS Collections

Medicine & Health Sciences IWANN Special Collection 2019: Deep Learning Models in Healthcare and Biomedicine
September 9, 2020 By PLOS Collections
Earth & Environmental Sciences How the COVID-19 pandemic is teaching us to tackle the climate crisis
August 18, 2020 By PLOS Collections
Medicine & Health Sciences Understanding childbirth as a complex salutogenic phenomenon: the EU COST BIRTH Action Special Collection
July 29, 2020 By PLOS Collections
Medicine & Health Sciences Introducing the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Special Collection
July 27, 2020 By PLOS Collections

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Absolutely Maybe

History Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 3 – From Birds to Math, Space, & Plants in Space
April 29, 2022 By Hilda Bastian

DNA Science

Post A New View of Flu Thanks to Preserved Lungs in a German Museum
May 19, 2022 By Ricki Lewis, PhD

All Models Are Wrong

aboutme What is success? COP26 and beyond
October 31, 2021 By Tamsin Edwards

PLOS ECR Community

Academia Predatory publishing 2.0: Why it is still a thing and what we can do about it
April 14, 2022 By Andreas Vilhelmsson

SciComm

Post From Litter Boxes to COVID-19: How One Scientist Strives to Educate the Public on Scientific Matters affecting their Daily Lives
May 23, 2022 By juliareinke

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Covid-19 Research and Recovery
May 11, 2022 By PLOS