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Body Politic:

Melinda Wenner Moyer is an award-winning science and health writer. She writes for publications including Scientific American, Nature Medicine, Slate, Popular Science, Glamour, Redbook and O: The Oprah Magazine and is an alumna of NYU’s science, health and environmental reporting program. This text is just to help for spacing issues.This text is just to help for spacing issues.

EveryONE (staff blog):

EveryONE is the blog of the staff members of PLoS ONE, the peer-reviewed open-access journal for all scientific and medical research. This blog is written for authors who have published with us and for users who haven’t, and it contains something for everyone.

GenomeBoy:

Misha Angrist, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. In April 2007 he became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church’s Personal Genome Project and in 2009 had his full genome sequenced at Duke. His book, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics, will be published in the fall by HarperCollins.

Gobbledygook:

Martin Fenner, M.D. works as a medical doctor and cancer researcher in the Hannover Medical School Cancer Center in Germany. Since 2007, he has regularly written about how the internet is changing scholarly communication. As co-organizer of the Science Online London conference, he believes that open standards that enable collaboration between people and software tools will make the internet a friendlier and more productive place for science and scientists.

Neuroanthropology:

Daniel Lende, Ph.D. an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Previously, he worked as an assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Notre Dame from 2004-2010. His work has been published in Addiction, Ethos, Qualitative Health Research, and Scientific American, and he has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Fulbright program. Daniel co-founded Neuroanthropology.net in 2007, and has helped develop this new field over the past several years.

Greg Downey, Ph.D. is currently a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Although a cultural anthropologist by training, his research with athletes led him to explore the biological impacts of bodily discipline. His first book, Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art (Oxford, 2005), was a study of the Afro-Brazilian dance and martial art, and he has published extensively on capoeira, no-holds-barred fighting, coaching, dance, music and other skills. Greg is currently working on another book, The Athletic Animal: Sport and Human Potential.

NeuroTribes:

Steve Silberman is a long-time writer for Wired and other national magazines. He has written about autism in Silicon Valley, the placebo effect in clinical trials, antibiotic-resistant infections in veterans of the Iraq war, the neurologist Oliver Sacks, and the history of the Beat Generation. His articles have appeared in Wired, the New Yorker, Salon, Time, and many other national publications.

Obesity Panacea:

Peter Janiszewski has a PhD in clinical exercise physiology from Queen’s University in Canada. He’s a science writer/editor, a published obesity researcher, university lecturer, and an advocate of new media in scientific knowledge translation

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Travis Saunders is a PhD student in health physiology at the University of Ottawa, where his research focuses on the relationship between sedentary time and chronic disease risk in children and youth. He is also a Certified Exercise Physiologist and competitive distance runner. This text is just to help for spacing issues.This text is just to help for spacing issues.This text is just to help for spacing issues. This text is just to help for spacing issues.

PLoS Podcast:

PLoS Podcasts was created to offer a unique and entertaining format to highlight some of the amazing authors that publish with the PLoS journals. About once a month, PLoS Biology Editor Ruchir Shah will host an interview with a PLoS author to discuss their research in more depth and to describe the relevance of their work to the general public. This will cover the entire range of biological sciences, from neuroscience to evolution to molecular biology.

Speakeasy Science:

Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer prize-winning science writer and the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A long-time newspaper science journalist, she continues to freelance and is author of four books and co-editor of a popular guide to science journalism. Her latest book, The Poisoner’s Handbook, was published in February 2010. This text is just to help for spacing issues.

Speaking of Medicine (staff blog):

Speaking of Medicine is the blog of the editors of the leading open access general medical journal, PLoS Medicine, which is an innovative and influential venue for research and comment on the major challenges to human health worldwide. PLoS Medicine publishes highly selected papers of relevance to a global audience, that address the major biological, environmental, social and political determinants of health.

Take As Directed:

David Kroll, Ph.D. is a cancer pharmacologist who investigates natural anticancer drugs as Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. He is best known in the blogosphere under his pseudonym, “Abel Pharmboy”, and as the author of the Terra Sigillata blog. He has appeared regularly on NPR’s ‘The People’s Pharmacy’ and the ‘Healthy Life’ program on ABC News Now. David is also as a member of the Advisory Board for the UNC medical and science journalism graduate program.

The Gleaming Retort:

John Rennie is an adjunct professor in the graduate Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. John served as editor in chief of Scientific American between 1994 and 2009. During his tenure the magazine twice won National Magazine Awards. Rennie’s numerous television and radio appearances include PBS’s Newshour with Jim Lehrer, ABC World News, The CBS Early Show, the History Channel special Clash of the Cavemen, Discovery’s Apocalypse How, NPR’s Science Friday, Minnesota Public Radio’s Marketplace and many other programs.

The Guest Blog:
Our Guest Blog invites the best and brightest minds from around the web to contribute their original ideas to our network. We hope that our Guest Post Blog will help bridge the gap between various media outlets and science blogging networks, making science communication a truly collaborative endeavor.

The Language of Bad Physics:

Sarah Kavassalis has a B.S. in physics and mathematics and is currently a graduate student at the University of Toronto, studying Mathematical Relativity. She began blogging in October of 2009 with the hopes of addressing issues of “bad physics” — semi-popular papers that were lacking an accurate physical and mathematical backbone. Outside of mathematical relativity, she’s interested in the philosophy of mathematics, as well as the role of language in science. Sarah is currently writing a humorous Lorentzian geometry textbook called “The Joy of Cooking Spacetimes”.

The Official PLoS Blog (staff blog):

The Official PLoS Blog is the place to come for an insider’s view of what’s going on at PLoS — the nonprofit organization and publisher whose goal is to establish more open, efficient, and effective ways to communicate new ideas and discoveries. Everything we publish is freely available online throughout the world, for anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, and use (with attribution).

The Panic Virus:

Seth Mnookin is a Lecturer in the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing and has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 2005. He has written for New York, Wired, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Spin, Slate, Salon.com, and others. Seth is also the author of three books: The Washington Post’s 2004 Best Book of the Year Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media, the 2006 New York Times-bestseller Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top, and his most recent work, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear.

The Student Blog:
Our Student Blog invites the next generation of science writers to work with us for a few months. And in the process of learning, they help revolutionize the blogosphere with original reporting and insight. Some of the contributions are edited by outside mentors, others are edited by PLoS Blogs’ Brian Mossop.

This May Hurt a Bit:

Shara Yurkiewicz is a 2nd year medical student at Harvard University. She was an AAAS Mass Media Fellow, and has written for the LA Times and Discover. She is interested in medical ethics, currently conducting research at Harvard and previously at the Hastings Center. She received a B.S. in biology from Yale.

Tooth and Claw:

Hillary Rosner is a freelance journalist whose stories on science and the environment have appeared in The New York Times, Mother Jones, Popular Science, Town & Country, Men’s Journal, Audubon, OnEarth, High Country News, and many other publications. She is a 2011 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and the recipient of a AAAS Kavli award.

Wonderland:

Emily Anthes is a freelance science writer. Her work has appeared in Scientific American Mind, Psychology Today, Popular Mechanics, Discover, Slate, New York, Good, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. She is also the author of the Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind (St. Martin’s Press, 2009). She has a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Work In Progress:

Jessica Wapner writes about biomedical issues for Scientific American, The New York Times, Slate, Science, Nature Medicine, Ode, and elsewhere. Previously she was managing editor of a monthly oncology review journal. She holds an honor’s degree in biology from Clark University.