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OA policy PLOS and Plan S – We’ve got you covered!
February 7, 2023 By PLOS

PLOS Biologue

PLOS Biology Should scientific papers inform or persuade?
February 6, 2023 By PLOS Biology

EveryONE

Interviews World Cancer Day – An interview with Professor Richard Martin discussing interdisciplinary cancer research
February 3, 2023 By Caroline Bull

Latitude

EarthArXiv Submit to PLOS and post a preprint to EarthArXiv—at the same time
January 31, 2023 By Lindsay Morton

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 The cholera outbreak in northeast Syria: water, conflict and humanitarian challenges
February 7, 2023 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

INDEPENDENT BLOGS

Absolutely Maybe

Peer review research roundup 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2022
January 26, 2023 By Hilda Bastian

DNA Science

Post Science Fairs Counter Science Illiteracy
February 2, 2023 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 My view of Society for Neuroscience
January 20, 2023 By Lei Shen

SciComm

Public Science Communication Top 14 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2022 Edition
December 15, 2022 By Jason Organ

Your Say

Global health 5 lessons for achieving equity to end HIV
February 2, 2023 By PLOS