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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 13d

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. @scurry.bsky.social &co present a roadmap to a solution that has a role for everyone in the scientific community 🧪 #Academicsky #reproducibility
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Ending publication bias: A values-based approach to surface null and negative results

Sharing knowledge is a fundamental principle within the scientific community, yet null and negative results are still being underreported. This Consensus View discusses the problem of such publication...

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PLOS @plos.org · 15d

PLOS is exploring how research publishing can be a lever for systemic change, moving away from a broken research assessment system to one that recognizes every contribution to #openscience – before and after the article.

🔗 Read “Validating how we can go beyond the article”:

Validating how we can go beyond the article

Discover how PLOS is reimagining research publishing beyond the article, advancing open science, reforming assessment, and driving systemic change.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 16d

Here for absolutely no reason is the attention for the largest study conducted on Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability.

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Annesha Sil @sillydrannesha.bsky.social · 19d

Important, if slightly depressing, but absolutely essential work.

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 19d

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag). Credit: Tatsuya Amano

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karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 27d

Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow).
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Displacement, personal loss, and psychological strain among physicians and nurses working in Gaza, 2023–2024

On January 26th 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognized plausible grounds for genocide being committed in Gaza by Israel. A hallmark of the violence has been unprecedented attacks on...

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 13

PLOS ONE metadata forms the basis of our study's Figure 1. We could only study PLOS ONE because PLOS made this metadata freely available (and in bulk XML, no less)!

Information is only useful if it is accessible!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Aug 22

FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition

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Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza

More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths. FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and ...

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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PLOS One @plosone.org · Aug 12

Planning an online study? This article from researchers at @uwmadison.bsky.social and Kenyon College systematically compares five platforms (MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA) and reports on data quality, participant attentiveness, and cost. Learn more at plos.io/45bZPJS

Data quality in online human-subjects research: Comparisons between MTurk, Prolific, CloudResearch, Qualtrics, and SONA

With the proliferation of online data collection in human-subjects research, concerns have been raised over the presence of inattentive survey participants and non-human respondents (bots). We compare...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Aug 14

Multidrug-resistant bacteria amid health-system collapse in Gaza

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Multidrug-resistant bacteria amid health-system collapse in Gaza

Gaza's health-care system has faced widespread destruction during the ongoing Israeli military invasion that began in October, 2023, leading to a proliferation of disease outbreaks.1,2 During this tim...

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PLOS @plos.org · Aug 11

Three facts give essential context:

1️⃣ An industry-wide threat, not a PLOS-specific problem
2️⃣ Openness made the analysis possible
3️⃣ Our actions to safeguard research integrity

Read the statement here: plos.io/4mvRZ3u

PLOS responds to PNAS study detailing the growth of peer review integrity issues - The Official PLOS Blog

A new PNAS study uses openly available articles to map the scale of paper mill and peer review ring activity across scholarly…

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · Jul 24

Aiming for 7,000 daily steps can reduce risk of chronic diseases, cognitive decline, and death, finds new study.

Explore the research in @thelancetph.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mrvd9uyt

Research in context panel for Lancet Public Health paper "Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis". Copyright: 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC By-NC-ND 4.0.

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Only 2 of 225 US biology PhD programs assessed offer annual salaries meeting basic living wages”

Sad parallel with our findings in Canada, recently published in PLOS One (Fraass et al. 2025)

Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jun 24

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM

From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...

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Fact Point @factpoint.bsky.social · Jul 11

Over the past three decades, researchers have documented a shocking 75 percent decline in insect biomass, based on a long-term study in Europe published by Hallmann and others in PLOS ONE. This loss goes far beyond bees.

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PLOS @plos.org · Jul 14

Environmental sustainability is often sidelined by narrow economic agendas focused on growth. PLOS Sustainability and Transformation champions transformative science that values diverse knowledge, collaboration and systemic change. Read more: journals.plos.org/sustainabili...

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A renewed meeting point to foster a sustainability transformation agenda

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · Jul 10

New research published in PLOS Climate suggests that extreme heat could lead to 30,000 deaths per year in England and Wales by the 2070s

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Projections of heat related mortality under combined climate and socioeconomic adaptation scenarios for England and Wales

This study projects heat-related mortality in England and Wales at Government region level under combined climate and socioeconomic scenarios, focusing on the implications of different pathways on ada...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 6

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
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Kathryn Weber-Boer @kowb.bsky.social · Jul 2

Louder, for those in the back!
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Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers

Global scholarly publishing has been dominated by a small number of publishers for several decades. This paper revisits the data on corporate control of scholarly publishing by analyzing the relative ...

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · Jul 1

A scientific future shared with #AI

Our June editorial by Renee Hoch (PLOS Head Pub Ethics) and @plosbiology.org's FM Senior Editor Joanna Clarke reflects on how generative AI can contribute to a scientific future, and how it can (and cannot) ethically interface with publishing

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A scientific future shared with AI

AI tools now exist to aid almost every aspect of the research process, from hypothesis generation and data analysis to manuscript drafting and publication. This Editorial examines what the future migh...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jun 25

What is the therapeutic potential of correcting mutations by base editing of the #MitochondrialGenome? This study shows that #mitochondrial #BaseEditing can indeed functionally create & correct mitochondrial pathogenic #mutations in patient-derived cells @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZMa2K2

Correction of m.4291T > C in primary patient-derived fibroblasts. Top left: The primary patient-derived fibroblast line is homoplasmic for the m.4291T > C mutation. Top right: Design of two sets of Left (red) and Right (green) target sequences flanking the spacer region (blue) for TALE-guided editing in MT-TI to correct m.4291C > T (dark red). Mismatched T (red) in TALE target sequence L2. Middle: Overview of the transfection strategy of DdCBE for primary skin fibroblasts. Bottom left: Editing efficiencies of all four combinations Left- and Right-TALE-DdCBE plasmids in primary patient-derived fibroblasts as measured by amplicon sequencing (Illumina NGS). Bottom middle: Ratio of on-target editing vs. bystander editing at any other base within the spacing region in fibroblast cells. Bottom right: Clonal lines of edited primary patient-derived fibroblasts show high variability in mitochondrial heteroplasmy indicating different editing efficiencies per cell (Illumina NGS).

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Annesha Sil @sillydrannesha.bsky.social · Jun 17

Exciting week in Bergen, Norway ahead representing PLOS and learning about the latest research in environmental economics and sustainability #EAERE2025 @eaere.bsky.social @plosclimate.org @plosone.org

PLOS One @plosone.org · Jun 17

Associate Editor Annesha Sil is at #EAERE2025 this week representing PLOS ONE, @plosclimate.org, and PLOS Water! If you're attending, feel free to connect about #EnvironmentalEconomics and #Sustainability research at PLOS. Learn more about #EAERE at eaere-conferences.org @eaere.bsky.social

Welcome to EAERE 2025!

30th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - Bergen, Norway, 16-19 June 2025

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 12

🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career?

New RoRI study says yes.

The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries.

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Largest study of its kind shows that the ‘Matthew effect’ in science funding holds true - Research on Research

New RoRI paper shows that researchers who win funding early in their career are more likely to get funded in the future

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Annesha Sil @sillydrannesha.bsky.social · May 17

Fantastic, extremely timely work criticizing the deeply flawed Cass report.

Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · May 10

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · May 9

#AI & national health databases offer opportunities, but can be exploited by unethical agents like #PaperMills. This study reveals an explosion of formulaic research articles, with inappropriate study designs & false discoveries, using data from US #NHANES resource @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3RWgNog

Summary of the distribution of journals. A tree map of the 341 focal manuscripts by journal, grouped by publisher family. BioMed Central is part of the Springer Nature publishing group but is shown as the BMC family of journals here.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 23

Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.

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