PLOS Blogs network

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The Official PLOS Blog

Open Access PLOS Price Transparency Update 2024
February 4, 2025 By PLOS

PLOS Biologue

Obituary R. Scott Hawley: A Pioneer in Genetics and Mentor to Many
February 11, 2025 By PLOS

EveryONE

Events Ten Years of International Women and Girls in Science Day: Progress and barriers to equal representation
February 11, 2025 By Jenny Tucker

Latitude

Climate Change Behind the paper: changing forests on the US East Coast
February 10, 2025 By Jamie Males

Speaking of Medicine and Health

Meet Your Editor Meet the Editors of PLOS Mental Health
March 20, 2024 By PLOS Blogs
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 We are right to feel enraged at the current moment, but hope is how we’ll win
February 13, 2025 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
PLOS Complex Systems Complex Networks and their Applications Conference Collection
January 16, 2024 By PLOS

Independent Blogs

Absolutely Maybe

Post What if We Can’t Rely on PubMed?
February 14, 2025 By Hilda Bastian

DNA Science

Post “The Dressmaker’s Mirror: Sudden Death, Genetics, and a Jewish Family’s Secret” Traces a Long-ago Tragic Accident to an Inherited Heart Disease
February 3, 2025 By Ricki Lewis, PhD

All Models Are Wrong

antarctica The things we take for granted
August 10, 2022 By Tamsin Edwards

PLOS ECR Community

Academia Flipping the classroom to teach climate and health in medical education
February 1, 2025 By Andreas Vilhelmsson

SciComm

Post Facebook’s Latest Misinformation Crisis is an Opportunity for Effective Science Communication
January 30, 2025 By billsullivan

Your Say

Your Say It’s Time to Improve Care for Children with Advanced Developmental Needs
December 23, 2024 By Audrey Snider