Mind the Brain Podcast Episode 02: The Neuroscience of Music – Anticipation and Reward

By Ruchir Shah
Posted: June 18, 2013
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For the second in my neuroscience podcast series, I chat with Robert Zatorre, who is a Professor in the Department of Neurology at McGill University. His lab studies the function of our auditory systems, in the context of complex cognitive …

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Exploring multiple facets of modern men’s health

By Raquel Laura Iglesias
Posted: June 18, 2013
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2695540485_7fed1903e5_zJune is Men’s Health Month! This is a time to bring awareness to preventable health issues and encourage early detection of diseases affecting men. As we wind down from celebrating Father’s Day this past weekend, here are a few …

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Announcing ALM Reports – a new tool for analyzing Article Impact

By Liz Allen
Posted: June 18, 2013
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PLOS is a leader in transforming research communication through Open Access and we are also committed to improving the evaluation of research through Article Level Metrics (ALM) that measure impact at the article (not the journal) level.

Today, we are …

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Ruby on Rails: Too Simple, or Just Simple Enough?

By John Callaway
Posted: June 18, 2013
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PLOS recently launched ALM Reports, implemented as a Ruby on Rails (RoR) app. I’m one of two engineers who implemented this site.  I’m not going to say too much about the functional aspects of the app, other than that …

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Risk of thrombosis: Another reason to avoid sitting?

By Travis Saunders, MSc, CEP
Posted: June 18, 2013
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Today’s guest post comes from PhD student Bethany Howard.  You can find out more about Bethany at the bottom of this post.  The study that she is discussing was recently published in MSSE, and can be found here.  We …

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Repost: The Pay-for-Delay Tactic

By Jessica Wapner
Posted: June 18, 2013
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Today, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission in its lawsuit against Actavis over so-called pay-for-delay tactics (PDF of Opinion). That is, paying money to a generic manufacturer to delay production of a drug …

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How to Find a Fossil

By Shaena Montanari
Posted: June 17, 2013
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Since the summer is the field season for many of us, I thought I would write a little bit about the first step in paleontological discovery: actually going out and looking for fossils. I will admit, when I first started …

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Book Review: The Recession Hurt Many People, Now Austerity is Hurting More

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: June 17, 2013
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Jean Adams from Newcastle University, UK reviews “The Body Economic: why austerity kills” by David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu

In early 2009, a few short months after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, an interesting debate broke out on the Health …

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PLOS ONE welcomes RIAT (Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials) Initiative

By Emma Veitch
Posted: June 17, 2013
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 Last week BMJ published an article proposing a new initiative aimed at solving an age-old problem in medical publishing: that of the perennial failure of investigators and sponsors to publish all of the results of all their trials, accurately …

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Living science: the importance of science experiences in Brazil

By Jean Flanagan
Posted: June 17, 2013
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This week we’re welcoming Roberta Manaa as a guest poster. Roberta has worked to connect the Brazilian public to cultural projects combining theater, cinema, and art with science since 2001. She is also a science fiction fan and has loved …

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