Blog Pick of the Month – October 2010
The PLoS ONE blog pick of the month for October is “Stressed Cattle and Elk” by T. DeLene Beeland of Wild Muse. While there were several outstanding posts aggregated by ResearchBlogging.org this past...
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The PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month for November goes to Ed Yong for his post “Tetris could prevent post-traumatic stress disorder flashbacks (but quiz games make them worse)” at Not Exactly Rocket...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – December 2010
In December, a PLoS ONE manuscript titled ‘Placebos without Deception: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Irritable Bowel Syndrome‘ generated a lot of buzz on the Web. The study suggested that placebos...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – January 2011
The winner for the month of January is Kelsey Abbott who blogs at Mauka to Makai for the post, “Leapin’ Blennies“. On a quest for information about these extreme mucous fish, Kelsey stumbled on some...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – February
Is our proclivity for music due to societal and cultural influences, or is there a resonance for beats in our brains? The winner of this month’s Blog Pick of the Month is Ben Good from the B Good...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – March
The winner of Blog Pick of the Month for March is Jonathan Eisen from The Tree of Life blog, for posting the back-story on his recent PLoS ONE publication, “Stalking the Fourth Domain in Metagenomic...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – April 2011
The winner of PLoS ONE’s Blog Pick of the Month for April is Alistair Dove, for his post on Deep Sea News that chronicles his group’s recent publication about the largest whale shark gathering ever...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – May 2011
The PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month winner for May is Iddo Friedberg from Byte Size Biology, for continued excellence in promoting novice scientists. Last January, PLoS ONE published a paper...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – June 2011
Last month’s winner is Elizabeth Preston from Inkfish, for her post on dogs’ ability to discriminate identical twins based on smell: According to a new study from the Czech Republic, though, a dog can...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – July 2011
The PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month for July is Jennifer Frazer of The Artful Amoeba for her post on prions, the proteins that are notoriously difficult to kill: If you had to choose the world’s most...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – August 2011
(Yes, we are a little bit late announcing this, but…) The winner of the PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month for August is Connor Bamford from the Rule of 6ix for his post on recent advancements made in...
View ArticleBlog Pick of the Month – September 2011
The winner of the PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month for September 2011 is Paul Norris from AnimalWise for his post on a recent study about how macaque monkeys use both sights and sounds to identify, and...
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